There's a mystique around successful entrepreneurs, and how they grow from people like us into extraordinary successes. Dragons' Den has more viewers than Hockey Night in Canada, and our media tell and retell the stories of men and women who once seemed like ordinary kids but took an idea and built it into a great company.
Brian Scudamore is one such Canadian story. He started selling candy to his school friends on Vancouver Island. In the late 1980s, when he couldn't find a summer job, he saw a junk pickup truck in front of him at McDonald's and thought he could earn some money hauling rubbish. Today, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? has over 1,000 trucks picking up scrap across North America and Australia, and Scudamore is a celebrated entrepreneur whose story is repeated count-less times.
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