John Younger

Imagine having a recruiting related company right as the bubble burst in 99, 2000, 2001.

So no one wanted to touch anything related to recruiting at that time.

Um, ended up getting, uh, through sheer force of will through that period, liquidated my entire retirement.

Um, well, I don't know, a couple hundred thousand dollars at the time.

And how old were you?

Uh, let's see.

That would be, that was so long ago.

So like in my mid thirties.

Yep.

Exactly.

Exactly.

So I ended up building it version one.

I ended up finding a group of nine unemployed developers in Fremont, California, who worked with me to ultimately create it.

And we got version one out in 2002.

As one of the leading recruitment process outsourcing companies, you can appreciate that we were given the hardest,

most wacky jobs possible to support because anything that was easy, everyone filled.

So we got things like the, let's see, there was, there was a parasitic engineer for Texas instruments and they wanted someone from India who was trained in college here and then wanted to move back to India.

So it was,

We did.

We ended up being the 42nd fastest growing company in America in 2006.