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Brian Scudamore

13 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 17, 2017 by Brian Scudamore · said 11 times in 6 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Apr 17, 2017 negative
Assertion Supported
Scudamore: 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Revenue Plunged from $119M to $80M
“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.”
Brian Scudamore Apr 17, 2017 ▶ 28:37 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Apr 17, 2017
Disclosure
Scudamore: Built Junk Removal Business Entirely Out of Cash Flow
“I didn't. I was lucky. I built a business out of cash flow.”
Brian Scudamore Apr 17, 2017 ▶ 13:04 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Apr 17, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Brian Scudamore failed high school and never graduated 12th grade
“I failed many years throughout high school. I ultimately was one course short from finishing high school. So, 12th grade, didn't finish, didn't graduate”
Brian Scudamore Apr 17, 2017 ▶ 3:45 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Apr 17, 2017
Disclosure
Brian Scudamore fired his entire 11-person team at $500K in revenue
“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 …”
Brian Scudamore Apr 17, 2017 ▶ 14:46 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Apr 17, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Scudamore: 1-800-GOT-JUNK? began with a $700 Ford F-100 pickup truck
“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”
Brian Scudamore Apr 17, 2017 ▶ 5:23 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Apr 17, 2017 negative
Insight
Having two impulsive executives at the top fails scaling companies
“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.”
Brian Scudamore Apr 17, 2017 ▶ 26:53 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Apr 17, 2017
What-if
1-800-GOT-JUNK? was 90 days from bankruptcy before laying off 52 employees
“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.”
Brian Scudamore Apr 17, 2017 ▶ 29:20 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Apr 17, 2017
Assertion Partly supported
Raz: 1-800-GOT-JUNK? and franchisees generated nearly $250M in 2016 revenue
“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.”
Guy Raz Apr 17, 2017 ▶ 34:45 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Apr 17, 2017 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Scudamore: Cold-Calling The Vancouver Province Landed Front-Page Free Press
“I picked up the phone, and I called up the Vancouver Province, our biggest newspaper at the time, and it must have been a slow news day, because I said, I got a great story for you, and they said, what is it? And I told them, and they sent out a reporter, and …”
Brian Scudamore Apr 17, 2017 ▶ 12:20 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Apr 17, 2017
What-if
Scudamore admits an IPO and VC funding would yield more personal wealth
“I probably would have made more money in the long term if I'd done a corporate model and an IPO and raised money.”
Brian Scudamore Apr 17, 2017 ▶ 32:28 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Apr 17, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Scudamore: First summer of junk hauling netted $1,700 profit in 1989
“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.”
Brian Scudamore Apr 17, 2017 ▶ 9:46 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Apr 17, 2017 positive
Assertion Supported
COO Cameron Herold helped scale 1-800-GOT-JUNK? from $2M to $106M
“We grew from together from two million to one hundred and six million in a very short period of time.”
Brian Scudamore Apr 17, 2017 ▶ 26:47 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Apr 17, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Scudamore convinced a university to admit him without a high school diploma
“So, I went to one of the universities and said, I don't have my high school graduation. I'm smart enough. I can do this. I wrote them letters, and I spent time in the admissions office, and finally they said, okay, we're gonna let you in.”
Brian Scudamore Apr 17, 2017 ▶ 4:04 1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
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