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Blakney: Firing underperformers reflects leadership vetting and training failures
“I don't enjoy firing people because part of it's failure on my part, as much as it's probably failure on their part, right? Either I didn't vet them right. I didn't coach them right. I didn't train them right. But for some reason they weren't able to do their …”
Blakney uses 150 foreign contractors so he remains the only official employee
“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.”
Live Lingua suffered its worst downturn in 15 years and conducted layoffs
“We actually in live link, well, we had one of the biggest down slumps ever we've had in 15 years, about 60 days ago. Right. So I've had to lay some people off recently to kind of keep us on survival level in order to kind of recover.”
Blakney: LiveLingua saw its biggest spike in March 2020 and sustained it
“So, in that March, we had the biggest spike we've ever had, right? When everybody suddenly, all the restrictions got put in place. You know, if you're looking at the hockey stick, we had like a little hockey stick moment. It's flattened out since then, but it …”
Blakney: LiveLingua took seven years to reach seven figures in revenue
“I joke that if I ever wrote a book, it'd be called Seven Years for Seven Figures and nobody would buy it. That's what it took us. I mean, you know, we built it bit by bit every year. First year was like, 40,000 dollars and we went up to 60,000 dollars, like ab…”