Cameron Herold scaled College Pro by hiring 800 franchisees in four months, who then recruited 8,000 painters in the next month. He spent three years as a franchisee before moving to senior leadership, where he ranked in the top 30 of the company's 8,800-person operation.
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800 university-student franchisees
8,000 university students
8,800 people
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So amazingly, I was on the leadership team of the largest house painting company in the world, the largest collision repair chain in the world, and the largest junk removal company in the world, all from very early stages and actually the largest private currency in the world at the time. So college pro, though, back in the 80s, every year had to go out and recruit, hire and train 800 franchisees and they were all university students. So imagine recruiting, hiring and training, in four months, 800 students and training them how to run a business. And then in four weeks, in one month, those 800 franchisees had to go out, recruit, hire and train 8,000 university students to paint houses. So in a five month period, we had to recruit, hire and train 8,800 people. For the first three years, I was a franchisee, okay, so I'm like in my moat, but I'm being trained and groomed on a lot of these systems. For the next four years, I was on the senior leadership team, recruiting, hiring and training. And I was in the top 30 people of the 8800 person company for four years.