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Spring and summer season just a few weeks ago, greg went from having a business that was through the roof to a business that was collapsing under the weight of the recession and then to a business with a collapsed roof. >> the building was condemned. we were basically out of business. >> and just like the conflict with his father, the challenge of rebuilding aqua scape became a rallying cry for whitstock and his remaining employees. this picture says it all. now, several years later, aqua scape is a leaner, meaner business ready are for anything. >> not only do we rebuild this building, but we...

Tough. >> it was a conflict that couldn't be resolved and the two parted ways leading to years of estrangement. >> we worked together for the first three years and he became my first competitor. >> the challenge from his father drove greg to work harder than ever. >> that was a big motivation for me because i wanted to prove not just to him, but to myself that the i could do it. and we did. >> acqua scape was enormously successful, especially during the housing boom when building a pond was the type of thing people built with easy access to home equity loans. that built the company's 250,000 s...

Is so high. it's been a real coup for us and a real asset for us that we did manage to get so many of these top flight search engineers to work for our company. >> ziprecruiter has been a crazy adventure for ian and his partners. today the company has more than a thousand employees and operates around the world. and he says while he still is as obsessioned as the early days, there's one big thing that has changed. >> there comes a point when you pick your ed hd up and you say, you know what? nothing can really kill me. tomorrow is okay, maybe even next year is okay and that's when you get fun....

Together or apart. without them, i wouldn't have been able to do it. >> greg's adventures in pond building started at just 12 years old when he built his first pond in the backer yard with his dad. >> that first pond leaked, turned green and even my prize turtles migrated away. that was the beginning of my odyssey with water features. every summer, i would spend my summers ripping it out, rebuilding it and mcgyvering up my filtration smgs. >> over the next seven years, whitstock innovated along the way and figuring out how to make the maintenance of the pond relatively simple. >> i thought, th...