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Kimberly Jung, co-founder of Austin-based Solar Service, knows that Covid slammed her 12-person business, which cleans solar panels. She just isn t sure how badly. As Jung says, Covid meant that people kind of stopped everything. Homeowners didn t want crews coming over to clean, even though the crews would be outdoors. Commercial customers, feeling uncertain about the future, didn t want to commit to cleaning contracts. We re growing quickly, so who knows what sales we could have had? says Jung. Even though the company has grown through the pandemic, she guesses that Covid cut sales by 50 percent.