When is enough, enough?.
Like all things moderation is key.. but is it really enough?.. Hi I am A.H Scott CEO and Co Founder of Aentities Untd. My father had a vision and so it started.. his own business. It was a fruit company in the early 80's. he started off with himself, my uncle , myself and a rusty old ford pick up truck. I must forewarn you this was modest and a little unfruitful to say the least but was it enough? No, to my father he knew he could do more; he knew he could be more, he knew we needed more and most of all he knew the customers and vendors alike needed more. It took us 2 months and a lot of hours to get enough to invest in a tractor trailer and so it began. From that day forward we were determined to seek capital in any way shape or form that best suited us to become what was then known as Scott Fruit Company. While that lasted enough until the oranges weren't making it we decide that any fruits we could get was worth hauling, heck even for other vendors on our way to pick up a load out of state. Was it enough?.. to be honest, no. When that wasn't paying what we believed was our potential we went into the cattle business.. we already had land and we had enough kids to do all the work in the mornings before school. So began a new adventure with the fruit winding down and the livestock picking up we had to put our best foot forward. HS Cattle was born and we bought, sold, traded and bred cattle on a daily basis. The market was good to us for a few years, but was it enough? Strangely no, no it wasn't. We notice that everywhere we drove the tractor trailers we would always get scratches on it. you guessed it, tree trimming. We knew it wouldn't be enough to do residential only so we decided to place bids in the surrounding 4 counties and we got 3 of the 4 and any residential in between. That was where we knew we done something that made us think we had enough. We invested in the new trucks, employees and equipment. We went to every local airport, warehouse and parcel we came across to get the job they didn't even know they needed. It was by chance we realized that with every new construction site we came across, the were putting in new landscaping. so we decided into growing yet again and started Scott's Nursery. We sold seeds, sod, plants, trees and gravel. We Shipped for cheaper because we used our own trucking company, we charged less for labor because with the shipment outbound was coming back loaded with something else so we could afford to hire less employees at a higher price rather than more employees with close to the same price. Was this enough, haha I guess you have to wait for the next installment it has only begun.
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If you have all of these businesses I'm interested to know why you're here.
That is a great question. You see, when my father died it wasn't because of age, sickness or an accident. My father was murdered... everything he had his hands into i liquidated sold or gave to charities. What i want is to start my own and have since 2012. I'm a silent partner in many companies, new and established. If you have ever been in a situation like that you would want to start fresh like i have done. I look at it as what we had before as analog and what i do today reflects digital so old school to new school. That sir or maam is why i am here. Thanks for you inquiry and have a successful 2017 and beyond.
A H Scott
Well that's one heck of a story. Looking forward to seeing how all of your experience transfers over to the digital world. Best of success to you in 2017 as well.
P.S. I am a guy, but you can keep the sirs. I was enlisted in the Marines, and we like to think we actually worked for a living. :)
I appreciate the time and i hope it works out as well.