Shane Parrish

An early employee captured where all this was heading.

Harrison would say he was going to be the largest French fry producer in the world.

I used to roll my eyes.

I didn't think it was possible because the Americans were so big, but he had great single mindedness of purpose.

He put the blinders on and he was headed right that way.

What made people follow him wasn't just the vision.

It was Harrison himself.

Harrison McCain had a presence in the way that a great actor has a presence.

One executive said, if you put 20 people in a room who'd never met each other before and Harrison was one of them, within an hour, there would be a consensus that he was the leader to show them out of the room.

He was convinced that laughter was the shortest distance between two people.

And his daughter Jillian said her father possessed what she called a happy gene.

He did everything with enthusiasm.

He worked with enthusiasm.

He ate with enthusiasm.

He partied with enthusiasm.

A close friend said he even walked down the street with enthusiasm.

That energy was what pulled people into his orbit and kept them there.

And he was going to need every bit of it for what came next.

There was never any question of Harrison being content with just one plan.

He was in it to dominate, not just Canada, but the world.