Eric Slifkin’s plumbing career dates back to working with his stepfather, Chip Chopinsky, at a Philadelphia contractor in the mid-1980s. Slifkin then did a stint as a subcontractor for Sears Roebuck.
“I always wondered why all these people called Sears,” he says. “After working for them I realized anything Sears did always had the tagline ‘Guaranteed or your money back.’”