Brian Scudamore turned down a $75 million to $100 million offer from Waste Management executives because he had a clearer vision for his company's future. He chose his long-term dream over the immediate payout.
Was I was out on a fishing boat with two executives from waste Management and I talk about this in the book and Waste management had approached me and wined and dined me and took me on this amazing fishing trip. I'm in the boat. Two garbage company executives were in the middle of nowhere. They're trying to get me to sell my business. And I said no. Sounds like you're about to get killed by the mob. Exactly. So there I was saying no. And I thought maybe I would say no to a future of any type of but these guys basically, you know, they were talking 75 to $100 million which would have been more money than I could have ever imagined. And I said no because I didn't believe a I was motivated enough by money to want to take that money. But even bigger, I saw a vision. I knew what I wanted to build. I had my painted picture clearly in my mind and I wasn't done.
