John Younger

Sure.

It was.

It was from about 87 to 93, 94.

Got it.

And it was actually when I was managing all the recruiting for two divisions, about 16,000 employees, that I asked the question, is this really the best we can do?

And that's really what set me on the course that I'm actually still on today.

I didn't.

I actually launched a company called Ynet and I launched it actually in November 96 and sold it.

Sorry, February 96, sold it in November 96 to a company called Trinet that outsources HR and payroll.

Um, that sale price, well, it depends on how you, it was mostly in stock, so it's hard to put a dollar value on it.

Um, it was probably pushing $4 million, something like that.

So, so I stayed with Trinet and we were on Inc.

Magazine's 500 fastest growing companies.

Uh, every year I was there for the next four years.

And in fact, we had really hit some milestones that allowed us to ultimately get a major investment from General Atlantic, who ultimately took it public.

I left in early 2000 and ultimately started a colo.

So what I realized is that all of this knowledge of how to recruit is completely tribal.

It's still tribal today for most companies.

And so one of the first recruitment process outsourcing companies, Acolo is like a turnkey internal recruiting department.

So ended up growing Acolo and it struggled at first.