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🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. |
0:15.3 | Today's guest is a serial entrepreneur who has built four of the most successful environmental service businesses in |
0:22.5 | North America, Dave Royce. Dave is the founder and chairman of Active Environmental, |
0:28.1 | providing pest solutions to thousands of cities in 34 states. David's companies have been |
0:33.6 | highlighted in national publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, |
0:38.6 | Entrepreneur, and Inc. magazine in 2015, David was awarded with the Ernest Young National |
0:44.9 | Entrepreneur of the Year Award. We are going to discuss David's entrepreneurial career |
0:49.6 | and how he transformed a small startup company into the third largest residential pest control company |
0:57.5 | in North America with over $500 million in annual revenue |
1:02.5 | in just eight years. |
1:04.5 | David, thank you so much for being on sharing secrets. |
1:06.6 | Thanks for the opportunity. |
1:07.5 | You know, the cool thing is my listeners |
1:09.3 | are gonna listen to this intro, |
1:10.2 | they're like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Did you just put 500 million in pest control in the same sentence? And the cool thing about this podcast for all my listeners back home is we get to explore all different industries and uncover where money's made, how it's made, and how we need to rethink what we're doing today to maybe emulate |
1:27.6 | someone like yourself. So I want to take a trip way down memory lane. I read and saw in an interview |
1:33.1 | you did. You talked about the fact you were in college. I think it was like 20, 25 years ago. |
1:38.1 | And you get a call to possibly be a door-to-door pest salesman, pest control salesman, right? And you're on the track, |
1:47.1 | you're at BYU, you're killing it at school, like you're thinking investment banker route, |
1:51.2 | but you take this opportunity. Talk to me about what that opportunity looked like that summer |
1:55.5 | and how much money you made doing it. Yeah, so, you know, broke college student, kind of paying my way |
1:59.8 | through school, had a buddy say, |
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