In this episode of the Think Small Podcast, Gene Holtzman, Founder and CEO of Mitchell Martin, shares the remarkable journey from working in social services to building one of the nation's largest privately held staffing firms. After beginning his career helping unemployed individuals through government-funded workforce programs, Gene found himself at a crossroads when federal funding disappeared in the early 1980s. Rather than abandon his passion for helping people, he transitioned into the staffing industry, eventually launching Mitchell Martin in 1984. Over the next four decades, the company grew into a $300 million business serving many of the world's largest financial institutions while navigating economic downturns, the dot-com crash, 9/11, the financial crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Gene explains why he never measured success solely b ...