Blakney uses 150 foreign contractors so he remains the only official employee
Ray Blakney · $500K Profit With Time for Family Beats $1M and Misery · Mar 1, 2022 · at 11:48
Ray Blakney explains the organizational and legal structure of his bootstrapped language tutoring company LiveLingua.
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“That being said, we have a 150 people working with us. It's a technicality for the IRS, right? Almost all of my employees are foreigners. So they're contractors, even though they're full-time, we have a leadership team.”
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