Founder of The Recrutiment Pioneers, scalability coach and recovering recruiter. Yes, <Mike once started the same place you did – round a kitchen table with a phone and a lot of ambition. Since then he’s grown and sold two multi-million-pound recruitment companies of his own, both started from scratch with no investment. The first sold for a headline price of £24m and the second for £15m. Only a handful of people can make a claim like that. Retirement was an unpleasant experience so for the last 10 years Mike has been working with other recruitment entrepreneurs to scale their business into something that is enjoyable and profitable to run.