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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1621 The Unique Way He Plans to Go from $312 Million to $1 Billion

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Serial entrepreneur and author Brian Scudamore pioneered the industry of professional junk removal with 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, turning a chore people avoid into an exceptional customer service experience. Then he scaled that success into three more brands, WOW 1 DAY PAINTING, You Move Me, and Shack Shine.

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0:00.0

Founder of 1-800 Got Junk today doing about 312 million bucks in revenue with eyes on a billion.

0:04.9

Three under franchise launched Wow One Day painting doing 30 million.

0:08.3

You Move Me doing 22 million.

0:09.9

And the newest one, Shack Shine doing about or targeting about $9 million this year.

0:13.9

All take about 8% royalty in terms of what the franchise pays back to the parent company so they get support.

0:18.4

And then each one takes call it 18 to 22% to the bottom line to support the lives of these entrepreneurs learning through the system Brian has set up.

0:25.3

Hello, everyone. My guest today is Brian Scudamore. He's a serial entrepreneur and author. He pioneered

0:30.1

the industry of professional junk removal with 1-800 got junk, turning a chore people

0:34.0

avoid into an exceptional customer service experience. He then scaled that business into three more brands.

0:39.0

Wow, one day painting, you move me, and Shaq Shine.

0:42.4

Brian, are you ready to take us to the top?

0:44.3

I'm excited.

0:45.2

Glad to be here, Nathan.

0:46.2

You bet.

0:46.6

Okay, so 1-800 got drunk.

0:48.4

I feel like, did you have a co-founder in that company?

0:51.9

You know what? I didn't have a co-founder, but I've got a guy, Cameron

0:54.7

Harold, who might have been on your podcast. These are COO from 2 million to 106 million, and the guy

1:00.7

bled blue and green, and we're still very close friends today. So super grateful of what he did

1:05.8

with our company. Yeah, the reason I asked that, so guys, he got into a lot of detail on 1-800 Got Junk. To get that story, go back and listen to that episode.

1:12.2

Just search Cameron's name plus my name on Google.

1:14.5

Brian, what I'd love to figure, what I'd love to look at now is kind of the systems that you learned and perfected at 1-800 got junk

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