#12 - The 1-800-GOT-JUNK Story

Together this president and I had almost bankrupted one eight hundred gut junk. We were down forty million dollars in revenue in one year. The financial meltdown of 2007 and eight didn't help. There was no one in my business that thought I was sane, that thought I made a good decision. They didn't get it because people didn't really understand. Or see what I saw. And somehow I stuck with it.

While it took eight years to get to a million dollars. We do a million dollars on any given day like today. My next guest who found a basic service that wasn't being met. And now he's making hundreds of millions of dollars. That's right, hundreds of millions of dollars. There I was out on a boat with two very senior executives offered 75 to 100 million dollars is what they were talking. I said, you know, I wouldn't sell it for a billion. Alright, we are talking to Brian Scutemore, the founder of 1-800 Got Junk. If you're like me, you've seen the billboards for 1-800 Got Junk. It's one of the sort of the catchiest businesses that I've seen, and it's also a very simple business. Brian's a guy who when he was 18 years old, he saw somebody else had a truck and said, you know, I'll haul away your junk. And he was like

That's a business that I could do. And he went and rented a truck and started this business and has grown it from, you know, just him and one seven hundred dollar truck all the way to basically doing about a half a billion dollars in revenue this year. So he's been doing this business for 30 years and he's a pretty inspirational dude. You'll hear that in the episode today. And so I'm excited to Talk to Brian, we talk a little bit about how he got the business off the ground, his sort of knack for PR, you know, how he ended up on and Dr. Phil and Oprah and all these other different outlets and how he's used that to grow the business, as well as his philosophies around hiring and some of the mistakes he made. And it's it's been a long road over these thirty years. And so it's it's a very cool story. Here comes Brian Scudomore, the founder of 1800 Got jump. Ready to go.

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