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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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...
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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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...
Being asked to evaluate other people's work is a particular responsibility
When the MEQ, Quebec's Ministry of Economy and Innovation, invited me to serve as a judge for their Innovation Awards, I did not take it lightly.
Judging is the opposite of the work I usually do. Coaching is about drawing o...
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The first company I ever ran, I ran at 17
It was 1992. I had just joined Student Painters. I was handed a territory, a stack of flyers, and told to go build something.
Some students fold. Some adapt. I became the youngest franchisee in Canada.
Thirty years later, Chri...
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I’m writing this from my garage.
If you told me two months ago that the president of Solpak would be running a national distribution company from a makeshift desk next to a lawnmower, I would’ve laughed. But today, April 21, is a reminder that in entrepreneurship, the terrain cha...
