Supply Chain Hiring, Employee Retention & Exit Planning with Charlie Saffro (#31)

Exit Algorithms · Mar 12, 2026 · 36m · transcript

In this episode, I sit down with Charlie Safro, founder and CEO of CS Recruiting, to break down what it really takes to build a people-first recruiting firm, scale through uncertainty, retain top talent, and navigate an exit without losing the culture that made the business work in the first place.​

Charlie bootstrapped CS Recruiting from an accidental start into a leading supply chain recruiting firm, helped grow a transportation technology company to 110 employees before its sale, and recently sold her own company after 15 years of building it. We also get into why recruiting should focus…