HACKER Q&A
📣 gathersight

Are there any substantial product-based businesses with zero employees?


Other than the founder or the founding team?

Or, put another way, is it possible to build a sizeable business using contractors and external providers only?

For arguments sake, 'sizeable' and 'substantial' equate to $10m+ pa in revenue and the business must make and sell something i.e. it's not a holding company, licensor, trader etc.

  👤 Jefro118 Accepted Answer ✓
BuiltWith.com is pretty much just one guy doing over $10m per year. At the notch below there are others like Pieter Levels who I think is doing over $1m per year with Nomad List and RemoteOK and I think it's mostly just him with some part time help. Probably a few more that no one has heard of.
👤 kleer001
sounds a bit like arbitrage and I suspect there's at least one or two
👤 garbagecoder
Mondragon Cooperatives?
👤 jsiaajdsdaa
In the event that there isn't, you should try to be the first!