Scott Gayman learned a valuable lesson in entrepreneurship from his grandfather and father that can be summed up in four words: Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Gayman’s late grandfather, Fred Horne, for example, spent years working with researchers at the University of California-Davis in the late 1960s and early 1970s to develop a product that slows down tree-root growth inside sewers without harming the trees.In 1979, Gayman’s late father, Richard, left a steady job with a nationally known sewer cleaning company and started Pacific Sewer Maintenance using his father’s root control product. The business, based in Glendale, California, also pioneered the use
