Emotional · 58:39
// THE QUOTE
“going into covet and I had a customer didn't pay us for uh 1.6 million dollars”
— Shannon Warren · Matrix HR (formerly Matrix Labour Leasing Ltd.)
Raw and specific: a $1.6M non-payment during COVID, a week of insomnia, then his partner going legal to claw half back and the rest earned. Complete emotional arc that stands alone.
Full episode at 58:39From Bankruptcy to $10M: How This NB-Born CEO Built Canada's Top Construction Staffing Firm ▸
THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES
Give long-tenure employees who carried the company through near-failure a small ownership stake — it aligns incentives for an eventual exit and honours the relationship.
“I'm going to make them both small owners of Matrix — without them I wouldn't have been able to get here.”
THE CHAPTER IT LIVES IN
20th anniversary reflections and M&A plans
53:20
Clips like this, every two weeks.
SOURCE: 58:39 of From Bankruptcy to $10M: How This NB-Born CEO Built Canada's Top Construction Staffing Firm