The Story
Mark Vassilevskiy is a 19-year-old from Kazakhstan who built Skale Solutions - one of the biggest design agencies in Silicon Valley - scaling to a team of 20 people and $80K/month revenue in just 10 months. His clients include major AI companies like Bolt, Lovable, Cursor, and he's partnered with Contra and W.
Mark started designing in Figma over 5 years ago, switching from frontend development. He worked with local clients in Kazakhstan, slowly gaining experience. In January 2024, he opened his X account and started posting consistently. After a few months of engagement, he had 5-6K followers.
The breakthrough came from a "free redesign" strategy. After getting rejected from every UX/UI job he applied for in summer 2024, Mark decided to do free redesigns for big brands and post them publicly. His first was for Atlassian - he redesigned their hero section and posted it. The post blew up to 110K views overnight. Even though Atlassian didn't notice him, he got 10-12 call bookings overnight and closed most of them.
He repeated this with Bolt (met the team in person, they became clients), and Acquisition.com (Alex Hormozi himself responded to the tweet). The Acquisition.com post was his highest-converting ever - 15-16 call bookings overnight.
Key Insights
The Free Work Strategy
- •Do high-quality redesigns for trending/viral brands
- •Post the work publicly on X
- •Even if the brand doesn't notice, potential clients will
- •One viral post can generate 10-15+ sales calls overnight
Building an Audience from Zero
- •Engage first - Leave 50 comments a day on other designers' posts
- •Do giveaways - Give away knowledge, products, or services in exchange for follows/comments/retweets
- •Use Tweet Hunter extension - Find viral content in your niche to replicate
- •Experiment at 3-5K followers - Big enough to go viral, small enough that failures don't hurt reputation
- •Target trending brands - Find what people are talking about NOW and create amazing work for them
Volume Negates Luck
- •Ask yourself: "How many times do I need to repeat this task for the chances of NOT getting a client to be close to zero?"
- •Apply this to DMs, content posting, outreach
- •Most people underestimate the work required
Business Numbers
- •$80K/month revenue (aiming for $100K next month)
- •Doubles revenue every 2 months ($10K → $20K → $40K → $80K)
- •25K followers on X
- •25+ million views on X throughout the year
- •6-7 clients per month (mix of one-off and retainers)
- •Average retainer: ~$20K/month
- •Team of 20 people
Services Offered
- •Websites
- •Launch videos
- •Times Square billboards
- •Focus on making things go viral, not just conversions
Tech Stack
- •Figma (design, free)
- •Blender (3D)
- •After Effects (motion)
- •Cinema 4D (3D motions)
- •Slack (communication)
- •Notion (organization)
- •X Verified Organization (highest level for brand purposes)
- •Framer ($30/month for website hosting, optional)
Resources
- •Follow Mark: https://x.com/markknd
- •Skale Solutions: https://skale.solutions/