Unpaid interns

With all the desperate college kids and even MBAs in some cases vying for unpaid internships, is there a feasible way to run a legit business with no paid employees and just unpaid interns or unpaid employees, within the law? Tobin & Co does that

What would be the pros and cons of this business

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I know a guy who ran a consulting firm that was just him and a bunch of unpaid part time remote interns that he made algorithms to handle fully automated recruiting for. Massive burnout and retention problems, but when you have a constant supply of international top school interns trying to work at an “American” company it almost works out

 

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