Chad Howard went to work for Procter & Gamble right out of college, eventually becoming sales director. P&G moved him around a lot and during a stay in Charlotte, North Carolina, he made friends with Austin Helms. He didn’t know it at the time, but that was the beginning of his portable restroom career.
“Austin worked for a makeshift search fund for a guy who wanted to invest in blue-collar businesses and he kept coming across portable toilet businesses,” Howard says. “He saw their finances and how they operated.”Helms tried to convince Howard to get into that line of work, thinking
