Gil: Fluenz immersion business went to zero when COVID-19 hit
Sonia Gil · How I Built Resilience: Sonia Gil of Fluenz · Oct 22, 2020 · at 6:17
Sonia Gil, founder of language learning platform Fluenz, describes the sudden disruption of the company's luxury in-person immersion programs at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“You had to shut down, exactly, completely, and we went to zero.”
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