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A Founder’s Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
- ▶ 1:42 Alex Lieberman Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, an e-commerce platform for creators. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:05 Alex Lieberman Okay, so we're going to dive into a really good article that, a blog post article, that you wrote in 2019 about kind of your reflections on Gumroad, um, at a point in time where kind of the trajectory changed relative to what you thought… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:53 Sahil Lavingia Like at the end of the day,
- ▶ 15:53 Alex Lieberman And so, out of curiosity, when you were kind of, let's just say, in, like, chapter one of Gumroad building for, you know, again, this, like, billion-dollar valuation, this hypothetical IPO down the road, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:44 Alex Lieberman Chapter two, which is, like, Gumroad as lifestyle business, and it's funny, like, I was even reading through, you had shared, like, what the June, 2015, and June, 20 16 numbers looked like in the business, and I think anyone, if, like,… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:06 Sahil Lavingia Gumroad had enough of a, of a bank balance too. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:32 Sahil Lavingia and say, Hey, can I convince like a coffee shop to run the way that I run Gumroad, right? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:56 Sahil Lavingia And, you know, I always enjoyed working on Gumroad, right?
Musings of a Legendary Entrepreneur
- ▶ 24:14 Alex Lieberman I'm also, I'm honestly, I was actually talking yesterday to, uh, Sahil, uh, from Gumroad, and this year they're gonna do 60% profit share 2 times in the scene
A $20m Business with No Meetings, Deadlines or Full-Time Employees
- ▶ 1:09 Alex Lieberman The business is Gumroad, an e-commerce platform for creators, and to break it down, I chat with Sahil Lavingia, the company's founder and CEO. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49 Alex Lieberman Okay, so last time we chatted, we talked about just kind of, ah, your reflection that you did in 2019 on the evolution of Gumroad from it being venture-backed business, kind of sites on multi-billion dollar exit or IPO to being a lifestyle… 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:00 Sahil Lavingia So most things come from our customers, our creators say, Hey, we really want a feature like Gumroad memberships, which was basically like, okay, we have products for sale on Gumroad. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:34 Sahil Lavingia I think there's just like so many people I want to get Gummer to a place where the average person works like an hour a day. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:49 Sahil Lavingia A designer takes, you know, Gumroad plus Notion card and turns it into Figma design.
- ▶ 15:35 Alex Lieberman One is, if you were starting Gumroad over, if you were starting a new business outside of the confines of the legal structure of Gumroad, would you start your, a new company in this way? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:58 Sahil Lavingia Like Gumroad is generating the, the conversion rate is like a hundred million dollar valuation. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:19 Sahil Lavingia But if you're trying to build like a different kind of company and work this kind of way and you have a product and like, the truth is like Gumroad, like it doesn't need like 30 full time people. 2 times in the scene