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Brian Scudamore

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  1. “What a cool idea. Okay, so you're in Colorado, you're in Denver. And when did you start doing this? I mean, it's a great idea. Were you in food? Were you doing food? Was that your business?”

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  2. “Teresa, okay, welcome to the show. Thank you. So, all right. So the company is called Flower, but it's spelled not F-L-O-W-E-R, it's F-L-O-U-W-E-R, like a merging of flower and flower.”

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  3. “Okay, so let's get our first caller on the line. Welcome to the How I Built This Advice Line. You're on with me and Brian Scudamore. Please introduce yourself, tell us your name, where you're calling from, and just a little tiny bit about your business.”

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  4. “Yeah, no question about it. Brian, it's so great to have you back on. I'm sorry I haven't seen you in a couple years. I got to get back up to Vancouver. And I promise I will. But why don't we take a couple calls while we're here together?”

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  5. “I think there's a voice that a founder brings that no one else can. And so I was asked by Roy Williams, who does our radio creative, when he first curated our radio campaigns, he said, Brian, you need to be the voice on radio. And I said, well, I don't know if I want it to be all about me. And he said, it has to be. You're the founder. You've got the McDonald's. And so I went with it, and no looking back. And everyone buys into a founder story in a different way than a hired gun. Now, Founders need higher guns. I've got my Eric Church who is unbelievable at scaling our business as an implementer. But the founder has a persona and a commitment and passion for a business that's been there from day one”

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  6. “Yeah, it's so cool. You are still the public face of 1-800 Got Junk. If you go to the website, there's a video view right there on the homepage. Do you think it's important as a founder to be part of the story or the presentation of the brand?”

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  7. “Think it was a moment of serendipity. I was looking for another business and couldn't find one. My ego wanted another business so we could just take over another space. But then serendipity had it where I got an estimate for my house to get painted and I had three quotes and the first two, you know, cigarette smokes hanging out of their mouth and they showed up late and you felt like they were going to move in to your house for a couple of weeks. The third guy comes in and says molding, ceiling, floors to ceiling, moldings trim. I'll have it done in a day. That was their model. Paint your whole home in a day without any compromise to quality. And so I looked at that business and I said, I've done well franchising 1-800 got junk. I think I can help you. Have you looked at franchising your business? And we ultimately bought his company and we took the model and we called it Wow One Day painting because that's how I felt the moment I walked in the home. And we started to franchise it. And now it's on track.”

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  8. “All right, well, Brian, before we get to our callers today, I have a couple of questions for you. I want to start by asking you a lot of entrepreneurs, they struggle with the question of focus versus expansion, right? And whether to stay with that core product and when to expand to others. At what point did you decide that it was a good idea to branch out into painting and then house cleaning services rather than just staying focused on junk removal?”

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  9. “It was an idea that was simple, and I think the simplicity of nobody has ever branded this space of junk removal. That's what we did. First mover advantage, and we're in Canada, U.S., Australia, and continue to grow.”

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  10. “Yeah, my business, and this is unheard of, was profitable in two weeks. How does that happen, right? You go and raise startup capital and start an app, and then your years and years before you even have any real revenue. So it's been an unbelievable model, and I've been very fortunate.”

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  11. “It's absolutely incredible. We've got franchises all across Canada, the US, Australia. You also have branched out. You have a parent company called O2E Brands. You guys have something called Wow One Day Painting. You've got a cleaning service called Shack Shine. It's so cool. By the way, I often refer back to this, we've had 700 episodes of the show. I often refer back to this episode, to yours, because when people say, I don't have a whole lot of startup cash, I say go back and listen to Brian Scootabar's episode. He started his brand with $700. And the genius of this idea was that one truck soon paid for itself and generated enough money for you to buy a second truck and then hire a friend to do the same thing.”

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  12. “It was a side hustle to pay for school, and I ended up learning so much more about business by running a business versus studying in school that I made a tough decision with a year left in my degree to drop out. Started hauling junk full time, and here we are today 1 800 got junk as a $700 million business.”

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  13. “It's awesome having you back. You were first on how I built this way back in 2017. It was such an awesome episode. And you told us the incredible story of how you started 1-800 got junk. And of course, anyone listening, if you haven't heard that story, go back and check it out. We'll put a link to that episode in the podcast description. But basically you were looking for a way to make extra cash to help pay for college. And this was in like 1989. You were in Vancouver, in Canada, you bought a pickup truck for like 700 bucks. And then you just started hauling away people's trash to make money. It was just like a side hustle at first while you were in school.”

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  14. “Let's get to it. Joining me this week is Brian Scudamore, the founder of One 800Got Chunk and the CEO of O2E Brands. Brian, welcome back to the show.”

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  17. “You know, one of my favorite parts of traveling is getting a feel for a neighborhood, the way locals do. A few summers ago, I was in Rome and stayed in an apartment I booked on Airbnb. It was tucked in a quiet neighborhood just outside the Roman forum. Every morning I'd walk to the corner cafe, grab an espresso, and just watch the world go by outside. I even managed to chat with the owner about the neighborhood he lived in for nearly forty years. And he got me thinking about my own neighborhood. There are incredible hiking trails and great restaurants and, of course, the beach. And when I'm traveling this summer, listing my own place on Airbnb could be a really smart way to let someone else experience the area the way I do, like a local. Listing your home on Airbnb while you're traveling is a great way to make some extra money. You could put the money toward your next trip. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much”

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