From bankrupt to financially independent: The Longyards founder story

Business Insider · Kathleen Elkins · 2026-11-06 10:35 UTC

Chris Long turned a contractor's storage problem into a business that made him financially independent.

Chris Long ran into a problem while running his construction company in Ottawa, Canada: He had bulky equipment but nowhere to store it.

So he built the kind of place he wished existed.

Long, 38, is the founder and CEO of Longyards, a company that rents secure outdoor storage yards to contractors and other businesses on a month-to-month basis. Customers can park work vehicles, containers, equipment, and materials behind a gate instead of signing a long warehouse lease.

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