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Brian Scudamore

12 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 29, 2022 by Brian Scudamore · across every show →

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Nov 29, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Scudamore: 1-800-GOT-JUNK began with a $700 classifieds pickup truck
“And so I went out and bought a truck. I started a company called The Rubbish Boys. It was a week after I got that idea, went on to the classifieds, found a truck, 700 bucks, boom, off I went.”
Brian Scudamore Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 4:20 How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
Nov 29, 2022 negative
What-if
Scudamore: The business would have bankrupted without outside leadership
“I couldn't have done that. We would have lost the business. We would have bankrupted it.”
Brian Scudamore Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 42:29 How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
Nov 29, 2022
Disclosure
Scudamore: 1-800-GOT-JUNK is fully sold out across 250 franchisees
“We have about 600 employees in the head office, about 250 franchise owners across Canada, the United States, and Australia, sold out with the one 800 got junk, still plenty of territory left, and wow, one day in shot shine.”
Brian Scudamore Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 6:16 How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
Nov 29, 2022
Insight
Scudamore: The best local service companies are almost always the most expensive
“In services, it doesn't work that way. The biggest and the best in every market, let's call it HVAC or window washing, doesn't matter, is usually generally the most expensive or close to the most expensive, because it costs a lot of money to find great people.”
Brian Scudamore Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 31:23 How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
Nov 29, 2022
Insight
Scudamore: Scaling a business to $1 billion is easier than $1 million
“The easiest is a billion. The hardest is a million. From a million, it starts to get easier at ten million, easier at a hundred, and even easier yet at a billion. That blew my mind, but it actually has proven in my situation as we're two-thirds of the way to a…”
Brian Scudamore Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 36:23 How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
Nov 29, 2022
Disclosure
Scudamore uses his 2,000 parked junk trucks as guerrilla marketing billboards
“We park our trucks, all 2000 of them in high profile visible intersections for people to see.”
Brian Scudamore Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 24:43 How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
Nov 29, 2022
Disclosure
Scudamore: 1-800-GOT-JUNK generates about $600 million in annual revenue
“So, one 800 got junk, the first baby in the family, so to speak, is about six hundred million in revenue.”
Brian Scudamore Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 5:44 How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
Nov 29, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Scudamore: Fired entire 11-person team at 1-800-GOT-JUNK over culture
“It was the day I fired my entire team. Now, literally, I didn't preserve one. There were 11 people in the company. I always say that one bad apple spoils the whole bunch, and I think I had nine out of 11 that were bad apples. Now, not bad human beings, but jus…”
Brian Scudamore Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 17:04 How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
Nov 29, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Scudamore: Oprah appearance forced 1-800-GOT-JUNK to quadruple phone lines
“So with being on Oprah, it was phones ringing off the hook. We could quadrupled our number of phone lines. We had 70 phone lines at the time. We literally brought in family, friends, parents to sit down and answer phones.”
Brian Scudamore Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 13:04 How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
Nov 29, 2022 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Scudamore: 1-800-GOT-JUNK reached Oprah 14 months after setting the goal
“And 14 months later, we did. I was sitting there on stage in Chicago, thirty-five million viewers watching us all at the same time.”
Brian Scudamore Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 10:23 How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
Nov 29, 2022
Disclosure
Scudamore has his assistant lock him out of email during vacations
“When I go away on vacation and I love to get out of my ADD and just recharge and have fun and not have to worry about the business. I get my assistant to change my passcode on my email and my social media. So again, I can't even get in. And that whole going da…”
Brian Scudamore Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 33:30 How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
Nov 29, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Scudamore: COO Eric Church scaled O2E brands from $100M to $700M
“Eric took the business from a hundred million to the combined family of the three brands doing seven hundred million.”
Brian Scudamore Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 42:22 How the Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK Built His $700M Empire
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