Gumroad

“I really try to form, build relationships with people that feel at will. They feel like we're both re-upping to keep this thing going on a very frequent basis with my employees, with my investors, with other folks that I talk to. It should feel very, not trans…”

“We raised a small bridge round, two million dollars at four-act liquidation preference from Kleiner and Mark Cuban and some other folks”

“For context, like we raised a seed round of a million bucks. We raised a Series A of seven in 2012 from Kleiner Perkins. And then in 2014, 2015, we're growing 60% a year.”

“And then I ended up building Gumra that weekend and then launched it Monday morning on Hacker News.”

“And it was honestly a relatively smooth transition because I'd built up these relationships with people around just talking about product and talking about, there was no agenda. I wasn't selling them anything. So I'd sort of already effectively sold them on my…”

“We need to, you know, we cut. 75% of the staff from 20 down to five people in 2015.”