I’m speaking to the next generation of student painters today.
I’m bringing this with me.
It’s my business card from when I ran a paint franchise on the South Shore of Montreal. My first company. I was 17.
A comb, shaped like a brush, made to stick on a fridge. My Instagram,
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Early in building Solpak, I would introduce myself at networking events and watch people's eyes glaze over.
“I'm in packaging.”
“Oh, cool. What kind?”
“For food.”
“Like for the meat platters at the butcher?”
“No, not really. More for prepared meals...
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Most entrepreneurs start a business chasing freedom.
What they get instead is a job they cannot quit, a team that cannot move without them, and a calendar that owns every hour of their life.
I know that trap because I lived in it for years.
Solpak started with me doing everythi...
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My wife had just given birth.
It was a complicated delivery. She was finally holding our newborn. Family, music, chaos. Her smile looked forced.
Then my phone rang
One of my largest clients. Equipment failure. I was the only person on the team who k...
The host of Honest Wealth Builders asked me a direct question once.
He wanted to know Solpak’s customer lifetime value.
I had been running through the business for about 30 minutes. Revenue model. Order frequency. Margins. All the stuff I know cold. Then he asked for a number ...
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Build for Freedom. Not to Be Indispensable.
I started Solpak at 31.
I had saved a good amount of money. I thought it was enough. It was not. Growth outpaced capital. I ended up emptying every registered savings account I had to keep funding it.
That is a decision y...
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One of our team players asked me a direct question once.
She wanted to know what Solpak's growth meant for her future.
Performance bonuses reward this year. Profit sharing rewards this quarter. Both matter. But neither answers the question a go...
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Solpak finaliste aux Mercuriades 2026
Solpak a été nommée finaliste aux Mercuriades 2026 dans la catégorie Entrepreneuriat – Repreneuriat. Il s’a loo git du concours d’affaires le plus prestigieux du Québec, organisé par la FCCQ.
C'est la troisième année consécutive...
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Most entrepreneurs build a job and call it a business.
I did it too. For years, if I was not there, things slowed down. Not because the team was bad. Because the systems were not built to run without me.
That was the problem I decided to solve.
I sat dow...
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I was 18 years old in Ciudad Ojeda, working with my father.
I had run the numbers on a used car from Miami. Buy it there. Ship it to Maracaibo. Sell at a premium. Keep the spread.
Then I calculated the import tariff. Then I worked the timeline. Months, minimum, from...
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I was 18 years old standing on a sidewalk in Ciudad Ojeda, Venezuela, having just visited my fourth hardware store.
The price on steel rebar had changed. Again.
I thought they were all making the same mistake.
They weren’t.
My father had been operating in 30-35%...
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Built for Freedom is now part of the Forbes Business Council Executive Library.
I wrote it for founders who are working harder than anyone in their company — and still feel stuck.
The problem is rarely effort. It's people and processes.
Grateful for the recognition. M...
