Free D Group generated less than $2 million in 2020 revenue
Abel Zhao · Bootstrapped to $35m Revenue, $15m recurring, $20m One Time Connecting Smart cities in Japan with local farmers · Jan 20, 2023 · at 12:20
Abel Zhao is the CEO of Free D Group, discussing how the company pivoted business models during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“So 20 20, when we first started to switch the business model from B to C to B to B to C so we only did around less than two million dollars in revenue in 2020, because actually that's when COVID first happened.”
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