How I built a $1M business in 1 year

Mark Vassilevskiy is a 19-year-old from Kazakhstan who built a $1M design agency in just 10 months. He went from zero clients to $80K/month revenue by mastering a strategy nobody else uses: public free redesigns. This video breaks down his "free work” formula and how he turned rejection into a repeatable client acquisition system.

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0:00 - Intro
0:54 - Who is Mark
1:09 - What does Skale do?
1:40 - Mark's background
2:33 - Landing the first big client
3:28 - Free work that led to clients
4:08 - How to build an audience
7:06 - Numbers behind Skale
7:37 - $1M Tech stack
8:10 - Tools to get started
8:32 - Volume negates luck
9:21 - The final word