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Product Growth PodcastHow to PM Production Changes with Devin: Tutorial From Gumroad CEO, Sahil LavingiaToday’s EpisodeSam Altman said one person will build a billion-dollar company.Sahil’s already halfway there with just one employee.Most PMs are still running 6-week sprints. Writing 10-page PRDs. Coordinating between designers and engineers. Sahil ships features from Slack to production in 30 minutes.Here’s the exact AI workflow powering Gumroad’s $10M ARR:If AI gets it wrong, your communication was unclear.----Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.Brought to you by:* Vanta: Leading...
2025-10-1928 min
Around the PromptAn unfiltered conversation with Sahil Lavingia, CEO of GumroadJoin Nolan Fortman and Logan Kilpatrick for a conversation about AI, the future of work, autonomous coding agents, and more with Sahil Lavingia, the CEO and founder of Gumroad & Antiwork. Sahil has been a builder for over 10 years, initially raising a small VC round then series A for Gumroad and is now building as an AI first product company. It was awesome to hear about the transition from him, how him and the team make product bets, and hot takes on AI coding : )
2025-06-211h 08
Founders in ArmsStartup to State: Sahil Lavingia on Gumroad, Profitability, and His Time at DOGESahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a platform that helps creators sell digital products and has facilitated over $1 billion in creator earnings. After raising a $7M Series A from Kleiner Perkins, Sahil took the unconventional path of transitioning from venture-backed growth to a profitable, dividend-paying company—and even spent time as a software engineer with DOGE at the Department of Veterans Affairs.What you'll learn:How Sahil transitioned Gumroad from venture-backed to profitable without selling or shutting downThe remarkable story of Kleiner Perkins selling their stake back for just $1 and the tax implicationsWhy AI...
2025-06-0654 min
CEO's Library: The 1% BookshelfEscape the Unicorn Chase: Build a Profitable Business You Love with Sahil Lavingia's "Minimalist Entrepreneur"Are you tired of the relentless pressure to build the *next* billion-dollar unicorn? 🦄 Feeling the burnout from the "growth-at-all-costs" hamster wheel? What if there's a smarter, more sustainable path to building a business you actually *love* running? 🤔Join us on CEO's Library as we dissect Sahil Lavingia's game-changing book, *The Minimalist Entrepreneur*. Discover the counterintuitive secrets from the Gumroad founder who turned a near-failure into a thriving, profitable company *without* chasing mythical creatures. Learn why starting with community (🤝) *before* product, building *as little as possible* initially, and marketing by simply *being you* (📢) are the keys to long...
2025-05-0627 min
How I AIGumroad CEO's playbook to 40x his team's productivity with v0, Cursor, and Devin | Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, where AI agents are already writing 41% of all code commits, and he’s targeting 80% by year’s end. Sahil demonstrates how this approach allows him to transform what would typically be two-week projects into two-hour implementations—a 40x productivity increase.What you’ll learn:The exact AI workflow Sahil uses to build features 40x faster—from prototyping in v0 to implementation with DevinHow Gumroad incentivizes AI adoption across the organization with $33,000 bounties for engineers who outperform the CEOHow to use component libraries like shadcn/ui for eff...
2025-04-2245 min
Puck AcademyRedefining Work: A Conversation with Sahil LavingiaIn this episode of The Next Next, host Jason Jacobs interviews Sahil Lavingia, founder and CEO of Gumroad and the newly established company, Antiwork. They discuss Sahil's journey from being employee #2 at Pinterest to founding Gumroad, and now venturing into promoting flexible work arrangements and leveraging AI to automate business processes. Sahil shares his insights on the transformative impact of AI in the software industry, his approach to building and scaling companies, and his vision for the future of work. The conversation also delves into how AI is altering traditional employment structures and what this means for venture capital...
2025-02-101h 16
Aidful Book SummariesThe Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less - Sahil Lavingia🤝 GET THE BOOK: Support my work and invest in your future by purchasing the book through my Amazon affiliate link. Your purchase helps to keep this show running.📖 BOOK SUMMARY: Sahil Lavingia's book, "The Minimalist Entrepreneur," advocates for a sustainable business model prioritizing profitability and community over rapid, VC-fueled growth. Lavingia recounts his own experiences with Gumroad, contrasting the "unicorn" chase with a minimalist approach focused on serving a niche community and building a manageable, profitable business. The book features various case studies illustrating this philosophy, showcasing how entrepreneurs successfully built sustainable businesses by focusing on solving spe...
2024-12-0116 min
The Eric Ries ShowLongevity Over Hypergrowth: A New Vision for Startups with Sahil Lavingia (Gumroad)The story of the digital content-sharing platform Gumroad challenges every aspect of the received wisdom about building successful companies. After it almost went under, founder and CEO Sahil Lavingia decided to pare down to the essentials rather than walk away. Then he took his characteristic counter-intuitiveness further and left Silicon Valley for Provo, Utah. Through it all, he never lost sight of what he was trying to do and his joy in building products. Gumroad is now thriving, with $175 million in volume last year, all thanks to Lavingia’s willingness to take a different path to success.
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2024-11-211h 39
Back to the Basics with Justin McLeodThe Minimalist Entrepreneur with Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia shares how he used a minimalist mindset to produce maximum results in his business and personal life.
In the latest podcast episode of Back to the Basics with Justin McLeod, Sahil Lavingia, Founder of Gumroad, shares his story of how a failed attempt at building a billon-dollar startup led him to redefining what it means to run a successful business by shifting to a minimalist mindset focused on profitability and productivity.
This episode is for you if you are:
An entrepreneur looking for ways to create a hea...
2024-07-0258 min
Book Summaries 2024The Minimalist Entrepreneur How Great Founders Do More with Less Sahil LavingiaDo you dream of owning your own business but aren’t sure how to get funding to start it? In The Minimalist Entrepreneur, Sahil Lavingia says you don’t need any. In this book, the successful business owner gives detailed advice for starting your own profitable "minimalist" business without using venture capital or spending a penny on advertising.In this guide, we’ll explain Lavingia’s business model, from identifying a business you’ll love to run by finding inspiration in your own communities, to setting up, testing, marketing, and launching your business. We’ll also discuss how to run y...
2024-05-0200 min
1947 Rise91: Why India is the next big thing & Building a Unique Venture Fund, Sahil Lavingia | 1947 VCSahil Lavingia is an entrepreneur, known as the founder and CEO of Gumroad, an investor, painter, and writer.
Through SHL Capital he Invests $10 million a year into early-stage technology startups, mostly via $100K-$250K checks.
00:00 - Top moments
00:42 - intro
01:54- What was the founding story of SHL Capital?
05:40 - What's the portfolio construction like for SHL capital?
08:09 - Are there examples in your portfolio of weird investments that turned out to be very good?
14:15- Any investors in particular who have really helped you become a better investor?
19:27 - Have you seen a pattern across your successful investments?
24:03...
2024-02-1751 min
AI and IBuying a Building with ChatGPT - Ep. 1 with Sahil LavingiaAbout the show
I believe that ChatGPT is the most important creative tool of the decade. I think it can help us write better, create art, efficiently ship products, build great businesses, make smart decisions, and even learn something about ourselves,.
But it’s still so early. Most of us don’t even really know how to use ChatGPT. We have a feeling that it’s powerful, interesting, and important—but we haven’t figured out how to incorporate it into our lives.
There are a few people, though, who are living in the future...
2023-11-1547 min
AI & IBuying a Building with ChatGPT - Ep. 1 with Sahil LavingiaAbout the show
I believe that ChatGPT is the most important creative tool of the decade. I think it can help us write better, create art, efficiently ship products, build great businesses, make smart decisions, and even learn something about ourselves,.
But it’s still so early. Most of us don’t even really know how to use ChatGPT. We have a feeling that it’s powerful, interesting, and important—but we haven’t figured out how to incorporate it into our lives.
There are a few people, though, who are living in the future...
2023-11-1547 min
The GrowthTech PodcastCEO of Gumroad On How To Make Money Selling Digital Products - GrowthTech #82 (feat. Sahil Lavingia)Sahil Lavingia is the CEO and founder of Gumroad, one of the biggest platforms online for selling digital assets. Gumroad has generated over $750,000,000 in revenue for creators since 2011. It's one of the best platforms to sell online courses, templates, content graphics and animations, etc.
This episode is on how Sahil Lavingia built Gumroad to a company that's worth between $100 million and $500 million. This is also an episode on how you can start making money online by selling digital assets.
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2023-05-1921 min
Portfolio Career Podcast with David NebinskiBusiness Building, Inflection Points, and Optimism with Sahil LavingiaBuilding a business is hard. Sahil Lavingia is Founder of Gumroad and he has seen his fair share of ups and downs to say the least. He has had to lay people off, experience rapid unexpected growth, and so much more. In this episode in front of an audience, he shares what truly matters to build a company, inflection points, and why is currently optimistic. Sahil is also an investor and the author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!As always, this episode with notes is available on my...
2023-03-1643 min
Portfolio Career PodcastBusiness Building, Inflection Points, and Optimism with Sahil LavingiaBuilding a business is hard. Sahil Lavingia is Founder of Gumroad and he has seen his fair share of ups and downs to say the least. He has had to lay people off, experience rapid unexpected growth, and so much more. In this episode in front of an audience, he shares what truly matters to build a company, inflection points, and why is currently optimistic. Sahil is also an investor and the author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur. Excited for you to build and grow your Portfolio Career!As always, this episode with notes is available on my...
2023-03-1643 min
Make Things That MatterSahil Lavingia: Independent Thinking + Pricing Changes at GumroadSahil Lavingia has had an epic journey as an entrepreneur: he dropped out of college to become employee #2 at Pinterest and then went on to found Gumroad, one of the largest platforms for creators to sell their work and earn a living online. After the company failed to meet its VC-driven growth timeline and almost died, Sahil had to lay everyone off and build it back up into the resilient, streamlined, and fully distributed company it is today.Episode web page.—Sign up here to get upcoming essays + episodes emailed to you....
2023-01-251h 03
The Startup Ideas PodcastSahil Lavingia Gets Radically HonestToday, Greg is joined by Sahil Lavingia, the founder of Gumroad. Sahil told himself he's going to start being totally honest in 2023 and he doesn't hold back in this conversation. ►►Subscribe to Greg's weekly newsletter for insights on community,creators and commerce.You'll also find out when new and exclusiveepisodes come out from Where it Happens. And it's totally free.https://latecheckout.substack.comFIND ME ON SOCIAL:Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenbergInstagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@gregisenbergLINKS FOR THIS...
2023-01-1249 min
ManifoldSahil Lavingia: Founding Gumroad, The Minimalist Entrepreneur, and our AI LLM future — #27Sahil Lavingia founded Gumroad at the age of 19 and built it into a leading digital commerce platform. He is the author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur and an investor in early-stage startups.Steve and Sahil discuss:0:00 Sahil's upbringing and start as an entrepreneur9:35 Tech founder at 19 and VC investment from Kleiner-Perkins24:15 Backstory of Gumroad30:30 Crowdfunding Gumroad37:09 Experiments with OpenAI LLM, ChatGPT, and the promise of AIReferences:Sahil's web pagehttps://sahillavingia.com/Ask My Book: interrogate Sahil's book via LLMhttps://askmybook.com/
2023-01-0559 min
The Bootstrapped Founder[Bonus] Sahil Lavingia — Gumroad’s Pricing DisasterYesterday, the creator economy learned that Gumroad, a platform where creators have been building their businesses by selling their services and products, increased their prices significantly. That caused a lot of backlash in the community, with people threatening to switch to other platforms and criticizing how the price hike was communicated. It’s been an intense topic of community discussion.Today, I am talking to Sahil, the CEO of Gumroad, about what prompted this change, what happened to cause such a stir, and where Gumroad is heading in the future. Here’s Sahil.You can find...
2022-12-201h 06
Part-Time TechSahil Lavingia of Gumroad: The Future of Flexible Companies (Pt 2)[Episode 4 of the Part-Time Tech Podcast] Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad. He shares about how equity works at Gumroad, their next product, Flexile, and why Sahil opted out of the unicorn chase. Sahil lays out both practical and philosophical visions for what flexible companies like Gumroad could look like in the future.Watch Part 1 of this interview here: https://rss.com/podcasts/parttimetech/735066/---Show Notes(0:00) Intro(0:30) Equity at Gumroad(2:51) Dividends through Flexile(6:30) Thinking long term with compensation(9:24) What is Flexile
2022-12-1444 minPart-Time TechSahil Lavingia of Gumroad: Running a $100m software business with only Part-Time Employees (Pt 1)Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, a service that allows you to sell digital goods online. Sahil raised millions from top VCs for Gumroad but failed to make become a unicorn. The company eventually switched gears to a profitable model, and over time, became a business with only part-time employees. Sahil shares about this journey, how Gumroad operates, and insights on business and life.Part 2 lands next week! Follow the show to get notified when it drops!(0:00) Intro(0:40) Sahil's Journey and Gumroad(8:41) Recession and Changing Environment(11:34) Arriving at...
2022-12-0854 min
Non-TechnicalSahil Lavingia (CEO & Founder, Gumroad) is painting his own tree(Recorded November 2021) This week, Alexis gets non-technical with Sahil Lavingia, the Founder and CEO of Gumroad. They talk about the first principles of Hamilton, Starbucks’ secret menu, an unhinged return of the Vibram Five Finger, and (almost!!) joining the Church of Scientology.You can find Sahil on Twitter at twitter.com/shl and Alexis at twitter.com/yayalexisgay or instagram.com/yayalexisgay and twitter.com/NonTechnicalPod. You can also sign up for Alexis’ email list at https://bit.ly/hellofromalexis to stay tuned for upcoming stand-up shows and other ~exciting~ announcements!
2022-09-0747 min
Non-TechnicalSahil Lavingia (CEO & Founder, Gumroad) is painting his own tree(Recorded November 2021) This week, Alexis gets non-technical with Sahil Lavingia, the Founder and CEO of Gumroad. They talk about the first principles of Hamilton, Starbucks’ secret menu, an unhinged return of the Vibram Five Finger, and (almost!!) joining the Church of Scientology.You can find Sahil on Twitter at twitter.com/shl and Alexis at twitter.com/yayalexisgay or instagram.com/yayalexisgay and twitter.com/NonTechnicalPod. You can also sign up for Alexis’ email list at https://bit.ly/hellofromalexis to stay tuned for upcoming stand-up shows and other ~exciting~ announcements!
2022-09-0747 min
The James Altucher ShowHow Sahil Lavingia created the multi-million dollar company, Gumroad.Gumroad has been around 11 years and more, and people have made tens of thousands of dollars selling digital products on Gumroad! But do you know, how Gumroad was founded?In this episode, the founder and CEO of Gumroad, Sahil Lavingia who also invested in Clubhouse, Republic, and more, joined me to talk about his origin story and his road to creating Gumroad!Sahil's origin story is fascinating, he was young and wanted to buy some Xbox games, so he started learning how to build websites to make money on the side. He then fell in love with building sites and...
2022-08-1848 min
Indie Hackers#256 – Debate: Elon Musk, Billionaires, Ethics, and Role Models with Sahil Lavingia and Justin JacksonSahil Lavingia (@shl) and Justin Jackson (@mijustin) join Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen) for a special debate-style episode. It's four dudes talking about Elon Musk. What could go wrong?Follow Sahil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shlCheck out Gumroad: https://gumroad.com/Follow Justin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mijustinCheck out Transistor.fm: https://transistor.fm/
2022-06-151h 07
The $100 MBA ShowMBA2048 Must Read: The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil LavingiaWhat do you really need to start and grow a business?
Today’s marketplace has lowered the barrier to entry for entrepreneurship. Given the tools available, the average person can start a profitable, scalable business with way less capital — and less experience — than ever before.
Today’s Must-Read explains how.
The Minimalist Entrepreneur is a roadmap for creating low-stress, low-investment businesses that put your profitability (and your sanity) first. The author, Sahil Lavingia, was employee #2 at Pinterest, and is the founder of Gumroad, which helps people start businesses with almost nothing.
Learn ho...
2022-05-1611 min
The Unstoppable Podcast123 - Why Bitcoin Will Outlast the United States of America with Sahil Lavingia of fweb3In this episode of The Unstoppable Podcast, we’re talking to Sahil Lavingia, Founder and CEO of Gumroad and Creator of fweb3. Sahil has a ton of experience building in the Web2 world and is now applying his talents to Web3 and the world of dApps.We talk about the impact of Web3 on the internet and the world, and whether technologies like AI and VR can generate the same amount of hype and excitement as crypto and NFTs. Sahil talks about investing in crypto and how he is able to take a step back from momentary pr...
2022-03-2353 min
Indie BitesGumroad founder's framework for a bootstrapped business - Sahil Lavingia, GumroadSahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, the platform that allows creators to sell products online. The beating heart of the creator economy. You'll likely have heard Sahil's story about his failure to build a billion dollar company with an article that went viral, but let me summarise for those that haven't.Sahil founded Gumroad in 2011, aiming to build the next unicorn, leaving Pinterest where he was employee #2. He raised $1.1m from angels, then $7m more in 2012. Things started growing, then they didn't. Sahil laid off 75% of the company to keep the product alive, moved to Provo...
2022-03-1615 min
Smart Humans with Slava RubinSmart Humans: Gumroad’s Sahil Lavingia on angel investing, raising $5M from the crowd, and Web3Sahil Lavingia is a founder, investor, and author. He is founder & CEO of Gumroad which exists to help every creative earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience. He used the new equity crowdfunding rules in 2021 for Gumroad to be the first ever company to raise $5m from the crowd. He also founded SHL Capital, which invests more than $15 million a year in early-stage startups. Previously, he was Pinterest employee No. 2. In his spare time he wrote a book, “The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less.”
2022-03-0949 min
Smart Humans with Slava RubinSmart Humans: Gumroad’s Sahil Lavingia on angel investing, raising $5M from the crowd, and Web3Sahil Lavingia is a founder, investor, and author. He is founder & CEO of Gumroad which exists to help every creative earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience. He used the new equity crowdfunding rules in 2021 for Gumroad to be the first ever company to raise $5m from the crowd. He also founded SHL Capital, which invests more than $15 million a year in early-stage startups. Previously, he was Pinterest employee No. 2. In his spare time he wrote a book, “The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less.”
2022-03-0949 min
Business of Software PodcastEp 100 The Pros and Cons of Setting Your Own Goals (with Sahil Lavingia)Sahil Lavingia discusses why and how he runs Gumroad with no full time employees, no meetings, no deadlines and no company perks.
NB, This was a talk that polarized opinions
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2022-02-221h 03
Asian Hustle NetworkSahil Lavingia // S2 Ep 122 // The Minimalist EntrepreneurWelcome back to Season 2, Episode 122 of the Asian Hustle Network Podcast! We are very excited to have Sahil Lavingia on this week's show.
We interview Asian entrepreneurs around the world to amplify their voices and empower Asians to pursue their dreams and goals. We believe that each person has a message and a unique story from their entrepreneurial journey that they can share with all of us. Check us out on Anchor, iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play Music, TuneIn, Spotify, and more. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a positive 5-star review. This is...
2022-01-261h 03
Software at ScaleSoftware at Scale 41 - Minimal Entrepreneurship with Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, an e-commerce platform that helps you sell digital services. He also runs SHL Capital, a rolling fund for early-stage startups.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsSahil’s recent book, Minimal Entrepreneurship, explores a framework for building profitable, sustainable companies. I’ve often explored the trade-off between software engineering and trying to build and launch my own company, so this conversation takes up that theme and explores what it means to be a minimal entrepreneur for a software engineer.Highlights(edited)Utsav: Let’s talk abo...
2022-01-2559 min
Infinite LoopsSahil Lavingia — From Web 2.1 to Web 3In this episode of Infinite Loops we have Sahil Lavingia with us. Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, and author of the book "The Minimalist Entrepreneur". The rise, and fall, and rise of Gumroad Physical vs. Digital Communities Befriending 'volatility' Applications of Web 3 And MUCH more! Follow Sahil on Twitter at https://twitter.com/shl and buy his book from Amazon at amzn.to/2ZnIGOl
2022-01-201h 13
The Delphi PodcastSahil Lavingia: Leaving as Pinterest Employee #2, Gumroad Creators Earning $500M, and Why Web2 Companies Can‘t Compete with Web3The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Sahil Lavingia, Founder of Gumroad, a powerful, but simple, e-commerce platform that helps creators monetize digital products and memberships. The two discuss Sahil’s decision to leave Pinterest, Web3’s edge over Web2, decentralizing Gumroad and shifting to a Web3 model, and much more!
Show Notes:
(00:00:00) – Introduction.
(00:01:28) – Sahil’s background.
(00:05:24) – The decision to leave Pinterest / Starting Gumroad.
(00:13:41) – Working through adversity.
(00:21:45) – Advice to crypto founders.
(00:36:56) – Decentralizing Gumroad.
(00:45:31) – Thoughts on merging Web2 and Web3.
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2021-12-221h 25
Latitud Podcast#73 - Community-driven companies: Sahil Lavingia, GumroadChildren are often fascinated with technology, and Sahil Lavingia's story isn't any different: he first started getting into computers at about 12, playing around with graphic design tools like Photoshop, and it soon naturally developed into building websites for family and friends.One Computer Science and Engineering degree later, Sahil turned what started as a casual project for himself into a marketplace for others like him to get paid doing what they were good at: Gumroad went from a weekend project to a sustainable business that became a staple of the gig...
2021-12-1657 min
The Indian DreamThe Minimalist Entrepreneur ft. Sahil Lavingia, Founder, GumroadWe're doing a Book Give Away! We'll be sending copies of 'The Minimalist Entrepreneur' to folks interested in building a profitable internet business. Just follow us on Twitter or Instagram & tell us about what you want to building using the framework laid out in The Minimalist Entrepreneur book. On the episode, we host Sahil Lavingia, Founder of Gumroad and the author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur. We talk to him about the roller-coaster ride of building Gumroad to a profitable internet business with $10 m in revenue and $1m in profit, and some concepts from the book.
2021-12-121h 10
The Danny Miranda Podcast#189: Sahil Lavingia – Being At Peace, Predicting The Future & CryptoSahil Lavingia is the creator and CEO of Gumroad. In this conversation, we speak about being at peace, predicting the future, and how he may be uniquely positioned to take advantage of the next decade. I also try to convince Sahil to mint his first NFT. Sahil's Links Twitter / Gumroad Continue the conversation with me... Twitter / Instagram / YouTube / TikTok / Website
2021-12-011h 04
The Jeff Dolan ShowSahil Lavingia on The Minimalist EntrepreneurGet out your notebook on this fun and enlightening conversation with Sahil Lavingia on his new book, The Minimalist Entrepreneur. He is a painter, investor ($10 million a year into early-stage startups), and the Founder and CEO of Gumroad. We talk shop on everything from getting started as an entrepreneur, marketing, sales, mindset, gurus, investing, crypto, futurism, and the macro trends to watch.
https://sahillavingia.com/
Show notes at https://jeffdolan.com/podcast
2021-11-2352 min
This Is the AuthorS6 E80: Sahil Lavingia, Danny Casale, Jorge Cham and Daniel WhitesonS6 E80: In this episode, meet the CEO of Gumroad Sahil Lavingia, artist Danny Casale (aka Coolman Coffeedan), and co-authors Daniel Whiteson, a particle physicist and a professor of physics, and Jorge Cham, creator of PhD Comics. From making complex topics easier to understand and more accessible to creating entertaining stories, these authors each created audiobooks listeners will love.
The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/652764/the-minimalist-entrepreneur/
Ur Special by Danny Casale: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/668166/ur-special/
Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/625525/frequently-asked-questions-about-the-universe/
2021-11-2213 min
Portfolio Career PodcastThe Minimalist Entrepreneur with Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia's new book, The Minimalist Entrepreneur, provides a roadmap for a different path compared to the one painted by Silicon Valley. A few pillars are starting, creating content, and being active in community. These pillars can be viewed as foundational to building a Portfolio Career. In addition to being the CEO of Gumroad, Sahil is a painter, course creator, investor, and now an author. His company, Gumroad, hires quarter-time executives to allow for them to work on other things and build out their Portfolio Career. In this episode, you will also learn how working remote has opened up...
2021-11-1849 min
Portfolio Career Podcast with David NebinskiThe Minimalist Entrepreneur with Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia's new book, The Minimalist Entrepreneur, provides a roadmap for a different path compared to the one painted by Silicon Valley. A few pillars are starting, creating content, and being active in community. These pillars can be viewed as foundational to building a Portfolio Career. In addition to being the CEO of Gumroad, Sahil is a painter, course creator, investor, and now an author. His company, Gumroad, hires quarter-time executives to allow for them to work on other things and build out their Portfolio Career. In this episode, you will also learn how working remote has opened up...
2021-11-1849 min
The Deep End by ODFMinimalist Entrepreneurship with Gumroad's Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia is CEO of Gumroad and author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur. Many of our recent guests are recently-forged pioneers in the creator economy space, but Sahil has been building the passion economy since before it was cool. In 2011, Sahil founded Gumroad to help creators sell content directly to consumers. He was 19 at the time.But this episode isn't strictly about the passion economy, though we do chat about ideas like gatekeepers and shifting creator incentives. Much of today's discussion is Sahil reflecting on his ambitions to build a billion dollar company.Though Gumroad today...
2021-11-1757 min
Writer on the Side$240K Before Launch Day from Sahil Lavingia's First BookSahil Lavingia (founder & CEO of Gumroad) made over $240K from his book "The Minimalist Entrepreneur" before its official launch date. He discusses marketing, NFTs, and the future of book publishing.
2021-11-101h 00
The Pomp Podcast#710 Decentralizing and Open-Sourcing a Web2 Business w/ Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia is the co-founder and CEO of Gumroad, a technology platform that helps creatives earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience. He is the author of the new book, The Minimalist Entrepreneur and a prolific investor. Sahil was previously the number two employee at Pinterest.
In this conversation, we discuss asynchronous workflow, open-sourcing a traditional business, hiring people without talking to them, decentralizing ownership and work, and investing.
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2021-11-0349 min
Non-Technical44. Sahil Lavingia (CEO & Founder, Gumroad) is painting his own treeThis week, Alexis gets non-technical with Sahil Lavingia, the Founder and CEO of Gumroad. They talk about the first principles of Hamilton, Starbucks’ secret menu, an unhinged return of the Vibram Five Finger, and (almost!!) joining the Church of Scientology.You can find Sahil on Twitter at twitter.com/shl and Alexis at twitter.com/yayalexisgay or instagram.com/yayalexisgay and twitter.com/NonTechnicalPod.This episode is sponsored by Betts Recruiting. If you’re looking for your next big opportunity, you can join the Betts network and get connected with the world’s most innovative compan...
2021-11-0347 min
Non-Technical44. Sahil Lavingia (CEO & Founder, Gumroad) is painting his own treeThis week, Alexis gets non-technical with Sahil Lavingia, the Founder and CEO of Gumroad. They talk about the first principles of Hamilton, Starbucks’ secret menu, an unhinged return of the Vibram Five Finger, and (almost!!) joining the Church of Scientology.You can find Sahil on Twitter at twitter.com/shl and Alexis at twitter.com/yayalexisgay or instagram.com/yayalexisgay and twitter.com/NonTechnicalPod.This episode is sponsored by Betts Recruiting. If you’re looking for your next big opportunity, you can join the Betts network and get connected with the world’s most innovative compan...
2021-11-0347 min
Mighty CreatorsSahil Lavingia: How to be a minimalist entrepreneurConversation with Sahil Lavingia https://twitter.com/shl- Why Sahil wrote “Minimalist Entrepreneur”- How to solve chicken-and-egg problem of starting with product or market - Too much research can be worse than too little research- How to scale your time Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-11-0324 min
Tacos and Tech PodcastThe Minimalist Entrepreneur: Sahil Lavingia Hi everyone - we're excited to bring you Sahil Lavingia, author of the upcoming book "The Minimalist Entrepreneur". His book comes out late October, so we'll be among the first to hear him speak! Here's what people are saying about his book: "Sahil knows not. He knows what not to do, what not to follow, how not to waste, and how not to get caught up in the hype. What's left is the yes - the stuff that really works, the things that actually matter. It's all in this book, and much of it only in this...
2021-11-021h 17
Noah Kagan PresentsHow to Run a $100M Company Without Meetings (w/ Sahil Lavingia)Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, employee #2 at Pinterest, an artist, and he writes really dope tweets. In March this year, his company Gumroad raised $5M in 12 hours by crowdfunding from his customers at a $100M evaluation. Now, Sahil is launching his first book titled "The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less" where he shows founders how to build a great company without an Ivy League degree and millions of dollars in venture capital. Show notes: https://okdork.com/podcast/223 Use this link to get 10% off at...
2021-10-281h 04
Money IssuesCreator economy and entrepreneurship with Gumroad founder Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia, founder and CEO of Gumroad and author of the new book "The Minimalist Entrepreneur" joins the show with Scott Kitun. Scott and Sahil share their passion for the changes coming to investing such as equity crowdfunding and retail investor movement. Sahil earlier this year raised $5 million in one of the fastest filled rounds ever on Republic, and plans to open up future crowdfunding rounds when needed. Gumroad is a digital marketplace where users can sell memberships, courses, books and other services and is built on the idea that creators can control their own business infrastructure by building...
2021-10-2739 min
Start Into A Riveting Full Audiobook In The Car.The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More With Less by Sahil LavingiaPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/504908to listen full audiobooks.
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“Pay attention.”—Jason Fried A revolutionary roadmap for building startups that go the distance Now more than ever, you don’t need a fancy office, Ivy League degree, or millions of dollars in venture capital to launch a business that matters for the communities you care most about. Software, the internet, and remote work have made it possible for entre...
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Title: The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More With Less
Author: Sahil Lavingia
Narrator: Sahil Lavingia
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 38 minutes
Release date: October 26, 2021
Genres: Business & Career Development
Publisher's Summary:
“Pay attention.”—Jason Fried A revolutionary roadmap for building startups that go the distance Now more than ever, you don’t need a fancy office, Ivy League degree, or millions of dollars in venture capital to launch a business that matters for the communities you care most about. Software, the internet, and remote work have made it possible for entre...
2021-10-264h 38
Learn to Code in One MonthHow Sahil Lavingia (Gumroad CEO) Learned to CodeIn this episode, Sahil Lavingia tells us how he learned Python, build Gumroad, as well as his advice for newbies stuck on choosing a programming language. Episode Show Notes and Full Transcript The Learn to Code Podcast is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and YouTube. Follow One Month on Facebook and Twitter.
2021-09-0725 min
Audio Essays on StartupsHow to raise your pre seed, by Sahil LavingiaIn this audio essay, Sahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad, explains what pre-seed funding is and how to approach raising pre-seed funding for your startup.Check out the original essay from Sahil: https://www.notion.so/Round-raising-tips-738cd31fa26b461281e2258a7cac3f24For more such audio essays, curated playlists, and free startup resources JOIN OUR DISCORD SERVER
2021-05-2702 min
Better ProductBetting on the Creator Economy with Sahil Lavingia, GumroadWe move so fast here on the show, that we often don’t have the time to look back and reflect. This big bets series reminded us of one of my favorite podcast interviews with Sahil Lavingia, Founder of Gumroad and Funder of shl.vc. He joined the show in August of 2019, to share the story of bringing his company Gumroad back from the brink of failure, laying off 75% of the staff, and building a product hyper-focused on value, not growth. Since then we’ve seen Sahil take many bets -- the big one? Embracing what...
2021-04-1318 min
Talking Too Loud with Chris SavageSharing Failures and Setting Expectations with Sahil LavingiaIn 2011, Sahil left his job as the second employee at Pinterest to work on Gumroad. He wanted to sell an icon he designed in Photoshop to his audience on Twitter and Dribble, but realized there was no easy way for him to do it. Prior to founding Gumroad, Sahil was a designer and engineer at the virtual DJ website, Turntable.Links to learn more about Sahil Lavingia:Sahil’s TwitterSahil’s LinkedInSahil’s WebsiteGumroad’s WebsiteReflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar CompanyP...
2021-03-1650 min
Philosophica#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present Podcast: The Knowledge Project (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: #98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the PresentPub date: 2020-12-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, an online marketplace for creators. In this conversation Sahil and Shane cover building a billion dollar business, the most critical skills for success, how he hires, his worst mistake, the patterns of success and failure and so much more. -- Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited tra...
2020-12-201h 11
The Knowledge Project#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the PresentSahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, an online marketplace for creators. In this conversation Sahil and Shane cover building a billion dollar business, the most critical skills for success, how he hires, his worst mistake, the patterns of success and failure and so much more. -- Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited transcripts, member-only episodes, and so much more. Learn more here: https://fs.blog/membership/ Every Sunday our Brain Food newsletter shares timeless insights and ideas that you can use at work and home. Add it t...
2020-12-081h 11
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managersSahil Lavingia's learnings as a VC backed founder and running a Rolling Fund - Venture Unlocked 007This episode is a fun one as I had the pleasure to interview Sahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad, an online platform that allows creators to sell directly to their consumers. The company has facilitated the sale of $356 million in products since its launch in 2011 and now helps over 70,000 creators.Gumroad raised capital from legendary angels like Ron Conway, Chris Sacca, Naval Ravikant, and from distinguished venture firms such as First Round Capital, Accel Partners, and Kleiner Perkins. After a failed series B in 2015, Sahil was forced to lay off the majority of his staff and pivot his...
2020-11-1240 min
Square One: Conversations with the Best in Business73: Sahil Lavingia, Founder and CEO of GumroadThis week it was awesome to dive deep into startups with Sahil Lavingia, Founder and CEO of Gumroad. Sahil’s seen it all in Silicon Valley - he was employee #2 at Pinterest, started Gumroad with a traditional venture backed structure, pivoted the business to be venture free and now has a rolling fund he operates in his spare time investing $7M a year in startups. We talked a lot about the differences in running a venture backed company vs. a company that lives and breathes off the balance sheet. We chatted about the difference in psychology of running these ty...
2020-11-1150 min
Creator ScienceSahil Lavingia – Gumroad and the evolution of online creatorsSahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad. Gumroad is an online platform that facilitates the sale of products by creators directly to consumers.Sahil left his job at Pinterest to start the company in 2011. Today, Gumroad serves nearly 75,000 creators earning more than $12M every month.In this episode, we talk about the beginning of Gumroad, how the creator landscape has changed in the last decade, trends in audience building, and how Honesty is key for creators.Transcript and show notes can be found here***RECOMMENDED NEXT EPISODE
2020-10-2751 min
Origins - Inside Venture Capital, Hosted by a GP and an LPSahil Lavingia and Steve Schlafman on new VC structuresIn this special episode of Origins, we discuss new VC fund structures with Sahil Lavingia, the founder of Gumroad and manager of one of the top rolling funds on AngelList, and Steve Schlafman, who combines professional coaching through his firm High Output with active angel investing using a traditional fund on AngelList.
Both operators and investors, Sahil and Steve provide a fascinating look into how the venture industry is evolving, and how they combine their experiences operating and investing in new, more flexible structures. We discuss their professional backgrounds, why they started investing, time spent at more traditional VC firms...
2020-10-1358 min
Invest In The FutureEpisode 1 With Sahil LavingiaIn the first episode, we host Sahil Lavingia. Sahil is the founder and CEO of Gumroad. He also runs a successful $7 million a year early-stage fund. The fund typically writes $100,000 to $250,000 cheques and has invested in HelloSign, Movable Ink, Lambda School, Figma, Clubhouse, and Haus. Sahil is interviewed by Iyin 'E' Aboyeji, the founder of Future Africa and co-founder Andela and Flutterwave.
Invest In The Future is a live fireside chat series by Future Africa to learn from prolific angel investors who have invested in and built some of the world's most impactful technology...
2020-10-021h 34
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed Sahil Lavingia is the Founder and CEO @ Gumroad, the company that helps creators do more of what they love. With Gumroad, Sahil has raised funding from an all-star list of investors including Accel, Kleiner Perkins, First Round and then Max Levchin, Chris Sacca, Ron Conway and Naval Ravikant on the individual side. However, most recently Sahil has made waves launching one of the first rolling funds on AngelList with his being $6M per year. In the past, Sahil has backed the likes of Lambda School, Figma, HelloSign and Haus to name a few. ...
2020-08-2444 min
Polymathic Audio by 2PM Inc.Ep. 009: Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia built Gumroad in a weekend. At 19, the eCommerce entrepreneur was on top of the world. Within a few months, he raised $1 million from a who's who of investors: Naval, Max Levchin, Accel, and First Round. Soon after, Lavingia raised capital from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In total, he raised $8.1 million. In a now-famous essay on his journey from venture-backed founder to boot strapped entrepreneur, he shares a bit about his journey. There was a rise, the fall, and a continued return.The idea behind Gumroad was simple: Creators and others should be able to sell...
2020-07-1551 min
Warrior Painters PodcastARTrepreneur Interview with Artist and Gumroad Founder Sahil Lavingia [011]Introducing our #ARTrepreneurInterview Series, where we chat with artists who have already established solid art business ventures!
Gumroad has been providing strong support for thousands of artists/creators for years, and its Founder and CEO Sahil Lavingia, who is an artist himself, has been an occasional warrior painter and painted with us many times before. This time, we had the honor to chat with him in our podcast to discover more about Gumroad, creator economy, art education, and more!
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Featured guest: Sahil Lavingia @shlpaints
2020-06-221h 26
Village Global PodcastSahil Lavingia on the Creator Economy, Venture Capital, and Rethinking SuccessSahil Lavingia (@shl), founder and CEO of Gumroad, joins Erik on this episode.They discuss:- The story of starting Gumroad, raising money, and getting featured in the media.- Going from a twenty person company to a five person company to a single-person company.- The advice he would give to a younger version of himself if he was starting over again.- The creator economy and which types of content do well.- How to think about raising capital.- Time as a status...
2020-03-3158 min
Paradox Podcast#8 — Sahil Lavingia — Escaping your own ideological bubbleSahil Lavingia (@shl) is the CEO of Gumroad and a prolific entrepeneur, writer, painter and thinker. For episode #8, I chatted with Sahil about the challenges of building startups and his viral essay “reflecting on my “failure" to build a $1B company”. We also escaped the world of tech and startups to talk about moving from San Francisco to Provo, Utah – the most conservative and religious city in America and lessons he learned about breaking outside our ideological bubbles and engaging with people we disagree with in a friendly way.
Lastly, we offered up some very amateur political analysis on the 2020 Presiden...
2020-03-131h 02
Magic Minds#53 — DeepDive — “How to Monetize Creativity and Solo-preneurship” — Sahil Lavingia"The most exciting new podcast in the startup world.” - Eric Ries, Founder, and NYTimes bestselling author
Mentioned in the podcast:
https://twitter.com/shl/status/1229844208959152128
Today we've got another deep-dive episode and this one is on monetizing your creativity.
It's with Sahil Lavingia, who is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, who's been on the podcast before. A great Below the Line episode with him going into detail in reflecting on his entrepreneurial path. Today goes a little bit more into detail on one specific thing, and that's monetizing your cr...
2020-03-091h 47
Conscious Creators Show — Make A Life Through Your Art Without Selling Your SoulSahil Lavingia — From Finding The Focal Point in Design to Wanting to Be Bill Gates, A Wide-Ranging Discussion On What It Means to Be a Designer, Founder and CreatorWelcome to the Conscious Creators Show; where through intimate and insightful interviews with authors, actors, musicians, entrepreneurs and other podcasters, you'll learn tools and tactics to 10x your creativity and strategies to grow and monetize your audience. On today’s episode, we are joined by Sahil Lavingia, Designer and CEO of Gumroad who’s also a painter and writer. We discuss creativity, design, and what he thinks makes people really happy. Learn what Sahil is creating now, how he structures his time in a way that allows him to pursue several large projects, his reflections on his fail...
2019-12-181h 16
Indie Hackers#134 – Code vs No-Code with Ben Tossell of Makerpad and Sahil Lavingia of GumroadThe no-code movement is picking up steam, with more people than ever building apps and businesses without knowing how to code themselves. Ben Tossell (@bentossell), the creator of Makerpad, is betting his business that no-code is the future of work. However, Sahil Lavingia (@shl), the founder of Gumroad, isn't so sure that code. In this episode, I hosted a lively discussion between these two thoughtful bootstrappers about code vs no-code. Which approach should a new indie hacker should take? What gaps in the market are opening up due to the changes in tooling landscape? And what does the future...
2019-11-111h 05
The Zach ShowSahil Lavingia: Why Building A Billion Dollar Business Is A Terrible Goal, Thoughts On Dave Chappelle, and Painting With Retired MomsWhat defines success in business and relationships? Making a shit ton of money? Investing in the right company? Providing value? Writing 1000 words a day for a week? Having the most meaningful interactions you can on a day to day basis? Sahil Lavingia, the guest on this week’s episode, has defined success differently at different stages in his life. As a teenager into his early 20s, Sahil lived in Silicon Valley, the home of cutting edge startup culture. He was the second employee at Pinterest and then left to start his own company called Gumroad, an...
2019-10-201h 49
Your First Million19. Gumroad's Sahil Lavingia: Weekend WarriorSahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a web platform where creators can sell products directly to consumers. He was previously employee #2 at Pinterest.
Links
Gumroad
Medium article
Twitter
Evan Doll iPhone University course
Evan Doll Twitter
Credits
Music by Jeff Kaale (1, 2, 3, 4)
2019-10-141h 03
Trouble Makers#7: Sustainable business with Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad, discusses going from VC-backed to indie startup, building a sustainable business, the freeing effect of open financials, leaving Silicon Valley, remote work, and the no-code movement with James Gallagher, author, researcher, and editor at Maker Mag. Sponsored by Blockstack.
2019-08-2929 min
Better ProductGetting Back to Better Product Basics | Sahil Lavingia What happens when all your dreams come true but you lose sight of why you started? Four years ago, things weren’t looking good for Gumroad, an e-commerce audience-building software that helps creators do more of what they love. In order for things to turn around, it required going back to what made the product a great idea from the beginning. For Sahil Lavingia, founder and CEO of Gumroad, this meant seeing their customers as human beings and giving them a platform that made their lives easier. After sky-rocketing to success, Sahil and his team endured an up-and-down journey that led t...
2019-08-2030 min
The How Things Grow PodcastHow Things Dont Grow; Reflections on Failing To Be a Billionaire - with Sahil Lavingia (CEO at Gumroad)My guest today is Sahil Lavingia, and this is an incredibly powerful, honest & inspiring episode. Sahil is today the founder & CEO of Gumroad, a platform that helps creators get paid for the work they do. What is significantly more impressive though is Sahil’s journey to where he is today. Sahil was in many ways a prodigy as a teenager, working on apps & websites - and making $100k by age 15. He joined the University of Southern California, only to drop out after a semester to join the then fledgling platform Pinterest to build their iOS app as...
2019-08-0743 min
The OrbitInterview 019 | Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia is the CEO and founder of an online selling platform called Gumroad. Sahil was 19 when he left Pinterest to start his own venture, and today his business allows creators to sell their products quickly and easily. Like many of Gumroad's users, Sahil is an artist (he writes and paints). Though his social circles are mostly tech entrepreneurs, his interests lie in creative pursuits and continuous learning. From San Francisco to Utah and now Los Angeles, Sahil is still in the thick of his journey, so we asked him about his overlapping lives in art and business.
2019-07-2439 min
Built to StayWhere Rubber Hits The Gumroad with Sahil LavingiaImagine you’re two years out of high school and you have $8 million in the bank from your first round of funding. Sounds like a Silicon Valley dream, right? Today we’re talking with Sahil Lavingia, the creator of eCommerce platform Gumroad. Sahil was the second employee at Pinterest, but he left his position there, unvested stock and all, to start Gumroad. His story is nothing short of incredible and we love the long-term, level-headed perspective Sahil is using to build Gumroad to stay. Show notes at builttostay.com
2019-07-2424 min
Indie Hackers#100 – From Aspiring Billionaire to Indie Hacker with Sahil Lavingia of GumroadAfter leaving his post as employee #2 at Pinterest, a teenage Sahil Lavingia (@shl) raised millions in funding from high-profile Silicon Valley to build a unicorn startup that could change the world — Gumroad. Today he lives in tiny Provo, Utah, spends much of his time learning to write and oil paint, and runs Gumroad as an indie business with the goal of making himself happier. In this episode we talk about what happened in between, and the lessons Sahil learned that can help every indie hacker create better lives for themselves by building more "successful" businesses.Transcript, speaker in...
2019-07-052h 04
Smash NotesMelinda Gates on the future. Justin Kan on startups and happiness. Sahil Lavingia and Bryce Roberts on living in Utah. - June 17, 2019Thank you for subscribing to Smash Notes weekly, your one stop shop to learn something new. In this update, you will hear about living in the future, being a startup founder, life under Mormon influence, and tips on growing a podcast audience.
🎇 A quick shout out to Below The Line for crossing 10,000 downloads! James Beshara is doing a great job using Smash Notes to promote his podcast, and it shows.
Now, this week's summaries.
What is the world going to look like in 2030?
Melinda Gates helps to answer thi...
2019-06-2020 min
Product Hunt RadioSahil Lavingia on “failing to build a billion-dollar company”Abadesi talks to Sahil Lavingia, founder and CEO of Gumroad, an online platform that enables creators to sell directly to their customers. Sahil is a very authentic founder who is not afraid to speak uncomfortable truths, as you’ll see in the interview.
They talk about...
His journey starting Gumroad and what happened when they realized the company wasn’t going to be as successful as they had hoped
Sahil was very young when he started Gumroad (he’s only 26 now!) and had worked a couple big tech companies where he saw that “there’s...
2019-06-1900 min
Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, LeadershipFailing to build a billion-dollar companySahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a platform for creators to sell the things they make. Since 2011 Gumroad has sent over $200 million dollars to creators. That’s a big number. Sahil’s ambitions lead him to believe that Gumroad would become a billion-dollar company, have hundreds of employees, and eventually IPO. That didn’t happen.
We talk through Sahil’s journey with Gumroad, why it failed to meet his goals, the path he’s on today and the things he now values…but to understand why Gumroad didn’t live up to his expectations, we really have...
2019-06-141h 12Magic Minds#11 — Sahil Lavingia — Solo JourneySahil Lavingia is the CEO and Founder of Gumroad, a platform to help creators create more through simple e-commerce and audience tools. He is also known for insightful and refreshing points of view on Twitter and Medium. To round it out, he’s also a designer, painter in addition to being a technology CEO and writer. Sahil and I have had similar paths in creation, from tech to design to art, as well as being a founder that has seen almost everything.
From being employee #2 at Pinterest to starting his own company, to coverage in just about eve...
2019-06-113h 05
Real Talk with Zuby#039 Sahil Lavingia - Founding Gumroad & Escaping Political BubblesSahil Lavingia is the Founder and CEO of the e-commerce website Gumroad. We discuss how he founded the company, mending political polarisation and why he moved from San Francisco, California to Provo, Utah.Subscribe to 'Real Talk With Zuby' podcast on iTunes, Spotify & Stitcher - https://fanlink.to/zubypodcastFollow Zuby - https://twitter.com/zubymusic Follow Sahil - https://twitter.com/shlSupport my work on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zubymusic Buy Team Zuby music and merchandise - https://teamzuby.comYou can also...
2019-06-071h 05
The HeartbeatInterview with Sahil Lavingia, CEO and Founder of GumroadAs the CEO and Founder of Gumroad, Sahil Lavingia talks about the presumption of success and defying statistical odds, the fact that success and failure are contextual, and getting yourself to a place where you are able to do what you love confidently, openly and authentically. Every few weeks as part of The Heartbeat, I… Read the full article
2019-05-0840 min
The HeartbeatInterview with Sahil Lavingia, CEO and Founder of GumroadAs the CEO and Founder of Gumroad, Sahil Lavingia talks about the presumption of success and defying statistical odds, the fact that success and failure are contextual, and getting yourself to a place where you are able to do what you love confidently, openly and authentically. Every few weeks as part of The Heartbeat, I… Read the full article
2019-05-0840 min
MaintainableSahil Lavingia: Pushing Forward Through Technical Debt After a Massive LayoffRobby speaks with Sahil Lavingia, Founder and CEO of Gumroad. Sahil has been transparent about the challenges of building a company – speaking on VC investments, layoffs, and more. Sahil talks about why he built Gumroad, adjusting development processes when your staff shrinks, working with VCs, and the future of Gumroad, including the pros and cons of potentially open sourcing the product.Helpful LinksFollow Sahil on TwitterGumroadReflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion Dollar CompanyHigh Output Management by Andrew S. GroveHow to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale CarnegieThinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Ka...
2019-05-0644 min
Streamline with Mike WarnerSahil Lavingia (Gumroad)Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a web platform that has paid out almost $200 million dollars to creators. Sahil shares the story of how Gumroad was created, expands on the challenges faced, he even shares his monthly salary and how much money some creators are making. Sahil is an open book and does not hold back in this episode. What are you waiting for, start!
2019-04-3049 min
Uncommon with Chance LuncefordLogocentrifugal 30 - Sahil "I don't respond to Bill Gates on Twitter" LavingiaThis was the 30th episode of the Logocentrifugal Podcast, and what a great guest to mark the occasion with.
Sahil Lavingia is the mastermind behind Gumroad.com, the best and easiest platform for content creators to sell their creations.
I asked Sahil to come on the podcast because I use Gumroad to sell my ebooks, and also because I heard him on my friend Jose Rosado's (Jose has been on this podcast too) podcast a while back, and I was impressed by the young man.
Sahil has made himself into a multi-dimensional success b...
2019-04-231h 35
Famous FailuresSahil Lavingia on Failing to Build a Billion-Dollar CompanySahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a web platform where creators can sell products directly to consumers with quick, simple links. Sahil was the second-ever employee at Pinterest before starting Gumroad with the goal of making it a billion-dollar company. Gumroad got off to an explosive start, but it eventually imploded. Sahil managed to keep the company afloat and made it independent, healthy, and profitable. Although Gumroad isn’t the billion-dollar company Sahil originally imagined it would be, it has created tremendous value for creators who’ve generated nearly $190 million from selling their creations on the webs...
2019-04-0941 min
This is Content.#5 From Startup to Profitable Online Business | Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia is the Founder & CEO of Gumroad. A simple to use ecommerce platform crafted for Creators. Sahil shares his experience as the second hire at Pinterest. He also dives into his venture funded startup journey that ultimately led to cultivating a profitable online business.
Sahil shares the ups & downs of startup life as a founder. Plenty of startup and life lessons in this one. Enjoy!
Links:
Sahil's Essay on Medium: Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
Sahil on LinkedIn
Sahil on Twitter
2019-03-2000 min
Music Production Podcast#95: Sahil Lavingia - Gumroad CEO; Less is MoreSahil Lavingia is a designer, writer, painter, and creator of Gumroad. Gumroad is a platform designed for artists to sell and share their work; it's what I use to distribute all of my own products. While still a teenager, Sahil was the first designer for Pinterest. Sahil and I had an awesome conversation about art, music, and the creative process. We discussed simplicity and productivity. I was immediately struck by the depth of his focus and his ability to see connections between so many seemingly different areas of life. This conversation transcends any one form of art...
2019-01-141h 21
Founder ChatsSahil Lavingia (Gumroad)This week I talk with Sahil Lavingia, Founder of Gumroad! In this episode we talk about dropping out of college, being the second hire at Pinterest, the history of Gumroad, raising millions of dollars, laying off 75% of the team, profitability, the future of work and more! Enjoy!
http://founderchats.com
https://gumroad.com
https://baremetrics.com
2018-04-171h 15
Mission & Values - A Backstage Capital Podcast2. Gumroad - Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia, CEO and Founder of Gumroad, reveals how being uncomfortable is crucial to staying motivated and how feedback is the secret ingredient for moving fast while retaining quality.
2016-03-2840 min
Chasing ProductEpisode 33: Following Your Startup’s North Star w/Sahil LavingiaThis Episode Sponsored By: 90-Day Product Goal Framework Are you tired of failing to meet long term goals as a product creator? Now there’s a system to help keep you on track and on task as you launch your own products – more details In this episode, Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia opens up about VC,
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2015-11-171h 15
Design Details53: Solving the Shout Problem (feat. Sahil Lavingia)Today we caught up with Sahil Lavingia, the founder and CEO at Gumroad. We chat about building an audience online, the challenges of being a designer, engineer and founder, and what the hiring process looks like at Gumroad.
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The SaaS Podcast: Build, Launch & Scale Your SaaS009 How To Build A SaaS Product In A Weekend And Raise $8 Million - With Sahil LavingiaSahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a startup which enables creatives (such as writers, designers and musicians) to sell their products directly to their audience. Sahil founded Gumroad in 2011 and to date has raised more $8 million in funding.Links & Resources Mentioned
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