1-800-GOT-JUNK?

“After 20 years of growth, we went from a hundred and nineteen million in revenue is what we'd hit at that peak at that time, and we dropped down to the eighties.”

“I didn't. I was lucky. I built a business out of cash flow.”

“The story came out, hit the ground on a Thursday, and we ended up getting 506 phone calls from Thursday to Sunday.”

“Yeah, so the Department of Transportation in Idaho owned this one 800 got junk phone number. They didn't know it spelt got junk, but they were using this phone number.”

“Five years in, we were about a half a million in revenue, and I realized I wasn't having fun any longer. I was avoiding spending time with my employees, and I just, I had the wrong people, and I realized that one bad apple spoils a whole bunch, and I had nine …”

“He did a million dollars in revenue in his first full calendar year.”

“I had a thousand dollars of my own money, and I spent 700 dollars on a beat-up truck of my own, and it was this little blue Ford F-One hundred”

“We ended up doing 53 franchise deals that year, which was just unheard of in the franchise space, and things just started to hockey stick and completely explode.”

“But what started to break was that you had two ADD fire ready aim types at the top of the company. That's you and Cameron. Yeah. And that just doesn't work. We started to make poor decisions together.”

“We couldn't have been closer. I mean, I would have given us another 90 days if we'd continued down that path. We had overspent so drastically. On big bets that didn't pay off, and I had to hunker down. I had to lay off 52 people.”

“So, you know, at this .1997, we actually had a million dollars in revenue, and I joined something called, ah, YEO, the Young Entrepreneurs Organization.”

“By the way, last year, the company and their franchise partners made close to a quarter of a billion dollars in revenue, hauling off people's junk.”

“I probably would have made more money in the long term if I'd done a corporate model and an IPO and raised money.”

“Within two weeks, I'd made enough money that I'd paid for the business. I adjusted my prices quickly, I worked hard, and I made 1700 dollars in net profit. That summer.”

“We grew from together from two million to one hundred and six million in a very short period of time.”

“Yeah, my business, and this is unheard of, was profitable in two weeks.”

“One-eight-hundred-got-junk is a seven hundred million dollar business.”

“One day it will be bigger than one 800 got junk simply because the painting space is even that much larger than junk removal.”