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"The Deal That Saved My Company"

Name: "The Deal That Saved My Company"
Uploaded: 2025-02-19T17:45:00+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: This content was created by Hishem Azzouz. This content was uploaded by Hishem Azzouz. This is a YouTube video titled "The Deal That Saved My Company"…

19 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Hishem Azzouz. This content was uploaded by Hishem Azzouz. This is a YouTube video titled "The Deal That Saved My Company" (created 2025-02-19). It contains a first-person monologue by a founder/SPEAKER A recounting the early days of their business: leaving their old company with about £5,000, briefly relying on their mother placing teaching assistants to keep things afloat, and about 6–7 months later receiving an urgent contract from a client named Dave Abbott who needed ~12 nurses to avoid a hospital shutdown. The speaker describes long workdays, assembling a core team of 10–12 contractor nurses, and growing to roughly £5,000 per week in revenue.

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And I think I left my old company with about £5,000 in my bank account. I cheated a little bit, if I'm honest. So my, my mum was a head teacher at the time and just placed 3 teaching assistants in her school. And I think that helped me keep the lights on, like really early on. So how long did it take then until things started ramping up? So I think it was about 6, 7 months in. This Dave Abbott called me and he was like, Mike, I've just taken over a hospital. It's gonna get shut down. I need like 12 nurses. I don't care what you charge me. I just need great quality nurses, like now. Otherwise this hospital's getting shut down. And I was like, this is it. This is the calling, right? So I think I was working up 13-hour days, 4 days straight. And I got a core team of contractors in. I think it was 10 or 12 nurses and they're all lovely. I could tell you the names now off the top of my head, but they will never, Dave will never know that that opportunity literally helped me build probably a steady £5,000 a week GP at that point.