54: Dropping out to recycle worm poop - building a 7-figure company with Tom Szaky

Tom Szaky is the Founder and CEO of TerraCycle, one of the
world’s leaders in eco-capitalism and the reuse of
non-recyclable, pre and post-consumer waste. In 2002 he left
Princeton University to spend all his time growing TerraCycle,
which began as a two-man outfit out of his dorm room. Since then
Tom and and TerraCycle have experienced great success. In 2010,
TerraCycle was named the #288th fastest growing privately held
company in America by Inc. Magazine and in 2016, Fortune magazine
listed TerraCycle as one of “7 World-Changing Companies to
Watch.”...among many other awards, publications, and successes.


I didn't think I could ever get excited about garbage, but Tom's
passion is contagious and his ingenuity is inspiring.


One of my favorite quote from Tom (slightly paraphrased):


"Entrepreneurship is a mountain of failure, and the outside - the
crust of the mountain is the success, and the more you take risks
and the more you inevitably fail, the more success you'll end up
having. We usually only see the entrepreneur on the outside
because that's what the magazines talk about, but we don't see
all the failures that led to that point."
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