India, Nov. 7 -- The entrepreneurial path of Harry Wayne Huizenga started with garbage collection, using one truck and one route among commercial customers in Florida. In 1962, he borrowed money to buy a $5,000 truck and acquire 20 commercial clients, then founded Southern Sanitation Service. This formed the beginning of his career, which spanned waste collection, video rentals, and auto sales, as published in the 2001 Academy of Management Executive article titled Wayne Huizenga: Entrepreneur and wealth creator.

Huizenga expanded his original trash hauling company to success by merging Southern Sanitation with a company run by his widowed aunts to establish Waste Management Inc., which grew into the world's largest waste collection and ...