“Only when I hired an American, a guy called Tom Roosin, when HomeServe was making $10 million profit over there. 16 years later, Tom is still there. And HomeServe America made $300 million last year.”
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hired an American named Tom Roosin to run HomeServe America when it was making $10 million profit; the business later made $300 million
$10 million profit, $300 million last year
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“Promoted him to be MD of HomeServe UK when we were only a UK business. Yeah. And then I sort of replicated that model nine more times and said, as we go into each additional country, let's hire a great MD that can run that country”