Wayne Huizenga is the consummate entrepreneur. His extraordinary achievements and dazzling climb from modest beginnings are the dream of many entrepreneurs. In 1962, he borrowed $5,000 to buy a used truck and 20 commercial accounts, and began his climb to success when he founded Southern Sanitation Service. Later, he merged his business with one owned by his widowed aunts, and formed Waste Management, Inc., now the world's largest waste collection and disposal system. In 1987, he bought a chain of 19 video-rental stores, and built Blockbuster, Inc., into a position of world leadership in the video industry before selling it for $8.5 billion in 1994. His latest venture, AutoNation, Inc., is the largest and fastest growing automobile retailer in the United States. In 1998, AutoNation was ranked 151st, on the Fortune 500 list. It jumped to 83rd in 1998 and 63rd in 2000. AutoNation, in 1999, was also rated by Fortune as the most admired company in the automotive category, and placed 86th on its list of 100 fastest growing firms in America. Mr. Huizenga also serves as chairman of Extended Stay America. Inc., ranked 18th on Fortune's list of 100 fastest growing companies for 2000, and is the only lodging company on the top 100 list. Mr. Huizenga is also chairman of Republic Services, Inc., the nation's third largest and fastest growing waste management system. He is chairman of Boca Resorts, Inc., which owns and operates luxury resorts in Florida and Arizona, and owns the Florida Panthers hockey club and related management operations. Mr. Huizenga also owns the National Football League team, the Miami Dolphins, and Miami's Pro Player stadium. Success Magazine named Mr. Huizenga entrepreneur of the year, an honor he has received seven times from various business and academic groups. He is a five-time recipient of Financial World magazine's CEO of the year. Georgetown University's Business School named him the 1993 business leader of the year. Among Mr. Huizenga's other awards are the Horatio Alger Award and Yale University's Gordon Grand Fellow Award, the highest nonacademic award bestowed by the school. In addition, his name graces the Huizenga Graduate School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Mr. Huizenga attended Calvin College in Michigan for three semesters, never losing the desire to work for himself. On leaving college, he began working, once again, in the trash-hauling business, and his entrepreneurial activities grew from there.