Buying for $600k, Selling for $35m

And these are all people that you were staffing into your client organizations.

Guy, ticket, signing bonus. And then they declared bankruptcy on us. I mean this is on and on, right?

You know, and so it was just all, it just all sorts of mess and problems and things and we just, we just, you know, there was a lot of, after doing that for several years, which we kind of thought we could get, we just sort of, you know, for several years you feel like, hey, if we just do this a little bit harder, we can get ahead and then we'll really have time to work on the business, you know,…

But we never did, we never got it. We never really got too far ahead. Every day was like I said, sticking your finger in the holes of a dam and trying to keep things together.

You know. Enzo Technologies as one of the leading IT managed service providers serving the search community. Led by Nick Akers, an acquiring minds guest who bought the 35 year old business. The team at Enzo regularly works with searchers and their acquisitions.

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Recall you'd said to me that there was some metric that looked good, like was it sales or just the number of placements? So, so something was like going the.

Right direction but you, we would win.

A lot of new business but you weren't actually Growing as a business.

We were winning.