Nick Buzz Won His First Design Contest for $200 at Age 17
Nick Buzz · Faceless: From Immigrant to $1M/Year · Sep 1, 2024 · at 4:26
Nick Buzz, founder of a design subscription agency, describes winning his first online design competition while living in India.
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“It was too much for me, ah, for a seventeen-year-old to earn, like, I think, 10,000 rupees, or 200 dollars back then.”
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