Kari Yuers' concrete waterproofing company has survived, and even thrived, through four recessions.

Yuers' tale is one of bold entrepreneurship and global expansion framed not in grandiose dreams and 

schemes, but in dogged persistence and with an intensely pragmatic eye.

This is a woman who was fired by her father when he owned the company – times were tough and 

he was realistic – who then turned around and fired her own mother when she owned the company.

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