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How a Single Mother's Grit Built One of the World's Largest Moving Companies
Manage episode 491827066 series 2943947
On this episode of Our American Stories, in the early 1980s, Brig and Jon Sorber, then high school students in Lansing, Michigan, started a local moving service using an old, beat-up pickup truck. They called it Two Men and a Truck—and their mom drew the original stick-figure logo. When the boys left for college, she took over the business, incorporated it, and—using the meager $350 profit from its first year—laid the foundation for one of the world's largest moving companies. Brig himself shares the remarkable story.
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1. How a Single Mother's Grit Built One of the World's Largest Moving Companies (00:00:00)
2. Marker 01 (00:08:00)
3. Marker 02 (00:17:55)
3662 episodes
Manage episode 491827066 series 2943947
On this episode of Our American Stories, in the early 1980s, Brig and Jon Sorber, then high school students in Lansing, Michigan, started a local moving service using an old, beat-up pickup truck. They called it Two Men and a Truck—and their mom drew the original stick-figure logo. When the boys left for college, she took over the business, incorporated it, and—using the meager $350 profit from its first year—laid the foundation for one of the world's largest moving companies. Brig himself shares the remarkable story.
Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapters
1. How a Single Mother's Grit Built One of the World's Largest Moving Companies (00:00:00)
2. Marker 01 (00:08:00)
3. Marker 02 (00:17:55)
3662 episodes
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