Rork’s founders were almost broke when a viral tweet led to $2.8M and a16z

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By Julie BortMay 5, 2025, 12:02 pm301 pts
Rork founders Levan Kvirkvelia and Daniel Dhawan are living a life that sounds like a plot for a movie. But it really happened. They went from broke, life savings spent, and in debt $15,000 apiece on credit cards — Kvirkvelia was even sleeping on a mattress at a friend’s apartment — to $100,000 of revenue […]

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