Building a Recruitment Empire with Franklin Fitch's Founder & CEO, David Annable

<p>David Annable bootstrapped Franklin Fitch from a one-man office in Windsor to 65 people across London, Cardiff, Frankfurt and Austin - but only after his first business failed.</p><p>In this episode, <strong>David joins Derry to unpack the lessons from 15 years of building an international recruitment firm</strong>: why he launched in Germany first, how you keep one culture alive across three countries, the "commitment culture" non-negotiables he hires for, and <strong>why Franklin Fitch invites failure</strong> - as long as it's the micro kind.</p><p>They also get into<strong> AI adoption without the hype</strong>, the pivot to predictable revenue that drove the firm's best-ever quarter, and the pre-mortem exercise David swears by for anyone thinking of starting their own agency.</p><p>Hosted by Derry Holt, CEO &amp; Co-Founder of OneUp Sales.</p>