Straw's agency saw bookings collapse from $800,000 to $200,000 overnight
Chris Straw · The Next Figma? KnapSack Hits $40k MRR in 6 Months For Design and Dev Module Tools · Dec 9, 2021 · at 6:33
Chris Straw, founder of Knapsack, recounts how the onset of COVID-19 devastated his previous design agency Basalt, sparking the pivot to software.
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“We went from, like, 800 K in bookings to, like, less than 200 K in bookings, like, overnight.”
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