![]() Scudamore says he was a " troublemaker" in high school, who dropped out with just an algebra class remaining. "Sometimes it's just taking that step and getting out there and doing something." Getting started "But I knew that if I picked something and I committed and stuck with it, the passion for building a business would soon follow." "Did I know that day that this would be something much bigger than just a way to pay for college? No," Scudamore says. ![]() He just wanted a way to make some extra cash. Of course, as a teenager waiting for his McDonald's order, Scudamore wasn't expecting to have a life-changing business idea. "We're taking ordinary businesses like junk removal or painting and making them exceptional through customer experience." "O2E Brands, by the way, stands for 'Ordinary to Exceptional,'" Scudamore says. The parent company also now includes house-painting company WOW 1 Day Painting and home-detailing business Shack Shine, which Scudamore founded in 20, respectively. The company operates junk-removal franchises in roughly 160 locations in the U.S., Canada and Australia under the umbrella of Scudamore's O2E Brands, which he says is "a half-a-billion-dollar business" in Canadian dollars - or about $368 million in U.S. Since then, The Rubbish Boys grew up to become 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, a $300 million business that's the main part of a bigger family of brands launched by Scudamore. ![]() And in his first year in business, Scudamore says he made a profit of about $1,700, which he used to cover his college tuition. Within the first "couple of weeks," Scudamore says he was able to break even. "I spent $700 on an old Ford F-100 and the rest on fliers and business cards," Scudamore says. Within a week, Scudamore had put his entire life-savings - about $1,000 - into starting his own junk-hauling service, which he initially called The Rubbish Boys (even though the business was then a one-man operation - "I wanted it to sound bigger," he says.) "I can do that," Scudamore thought, he tells CNBC Make It. ![]()
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