Sahil Lavingia
15 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 1, 2024 by Sahil Lavingia · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Jan 1, 2024 neutral
Lavingia: Gumroad contributors self-select quarterly tasks without rigid assignments
“And the way we manage flexibility and freedom at all costs is I just say, hey, this is what I think we should get done this quarter. This is what I think feels reasonable to me. And then we kind of backfill, you know, people say, okay, I'm going to work on tha…”
Jan 1, 2024
Jan 1, 2024
Jan 1, 2024 neutral
Lavingia: Gumroad develops products via scoper, designer, and builder assembly line
“And so we basically have these like three roles, right? We have scoper designer and builder. And like, it's very much like kind of like this assembly line, of course, this can go back and forth, but there's like a very, Well-defined pipeline, right?”
Jan 1, 2024 neutral
Lavingia: Starting modular, contractor-only startups from day one may take five years
“I, my belief is not today, but maybe in five years. Honestly, I don't think even today, like running, like it requires a lot of custom stuff. Like we had to do, build this whole product in order to run Gumroad this way.”
Jan 1, 2024 neutral
Jan 1, 2024 positive
Lavingia: Gumroad generates $20M revenue and $8M-$9M profit with no full-time employees
“Twenty million in revenue. We have 35 people working like this. We do, you know, eight or nine million in net income. And yet still we have no full-time employees. Like I'm not interested in hiring a single full-time employee.”
Jan 5, 2024 neutral
Jan 22, 2024 positive
Jan 22, 2024 positive
Gumroad turned a $351,000 monthly deficit into net profit within one year
“For the listener, it was June, 2015, this is a few months before Gumroad layoffs, revenue was 89,000 dollars a month net profit was 351,000, -351,000 dollars. They're burning 351,000 dollars. Obviously this was at the point in the business where still venture …”
Jan 22, 2024 positive
Founders should respect venture capitalists they raise money from rather than complain
“Like I always thought it's weird. Like founders are like, oh, like raising money for VCs. Like I hate VCs. It's like, if you're raising money, like you should respect them. Like they're smart, you know, like if you don't like find better ones, like they're goo…”
Jan 22, 2024
Jan 22, 2024 positive
Gumroad generates $160 million annual GMV and $8 million net income
“Now we do about a hundred and sixty million dollars a year in annualized GMV. So that's sort of like the marketplace volume of that we take. 10% ends up being our revenue, and that's how we make money. And about half of that ends up being our margin. So you ca…”
Jan 22, 2024 positive
Jan 22, 2024 negative
Billion-dollar startup valuations are phantom wealth that drive founder unhappiness
“What is a billion dollar company? Right? Like, it means like the last share you sold for like, 11 dollars and you have like a hundred million of those shares out there... And you can like, maybe if you're lucky, get a loan on it or something. Right. But at the…”