Danilov: The golden age of dropshipping ended around 2019
Nikita Danilov · How Focus Closed SwiftNet in 30 Days · Oct 7, 2025 · at 2:50
SwiftNet founder Nikita Danilov reflects on his early e-commerce background and how easy it was to generate profits from dropshipping before 2019.
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“I caught the last year of the golden age of drop shipping in 2018, back when you could click a button and, you know, and Facebook on, on Facebook, just some ad and boom, you're making money. That obviously ended in like 2019”
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