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The owners of Regina-based Loose Foot Computing want people to focus on the success of their business and not to put the spotlight on the firm's two principals. But, for a writer looking for something out of the ordinary, it's simply impossible to do.
Rob Sauchyn and Andrew MacCorquodale started their businesses seven years ago. They did their first merger three years later. So far, nothing unusual in that. What sets them apart, though, is the fact that they are 19 years old.
Both Sauchyn and MacCorquodale joined the business world at the age of 12. Sauchyn formed Loose Foot Computing to provide Web services to business clients. MacCorquodale owned and operated Rapid World Computer Solutions to build custom-made computers.
Both companies, MacCorquodale adds, were profitable back then.
"If we did what normal people do we would have built up debt to get going. But we were only 12 and debt wasn't in our vocabulary," he jokes.
The pair met at a computer camp but "never really talked to each other at all," MacCorquodale reports of the first encounter that would ultimately lead to a successful business partnership. The second encounter came in 1999 when they were asked to return to the computer camp as mentors and counsellors.
This time they talked and realized how much they had in common. Their first collaboration was E-commerce Expo Canada, a trade show and exposition in Regina in 1999 and Saskatoon in 2000. "It was a fair to showcase the latest technology," offers MacCorquodale.
They also realized MacCorquodale's Rapid World Computers was beginning to drift into the field of Web hosting, which was the area occupied by Sauchyn's...