Steal From The Best

Steal From The Best

Sahil Lavingia

Founder of Gumroad

Ideas

Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on how he survived a near-fatal mistake

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on why starting a business is a great way to find business ideas

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on why he invests $250K in products he uses

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on how Kleiner Perkins writing off its investment helped Gumroad

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains why specificity makes ideas broadly appealing

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains why easier coding may mean fewer software engineers

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on why enough is a decision, not an amount

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on what happened after he stopped spending to grow

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on why the best artists learn to code

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains how Pinterest rode Facebook's growth

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on the hardest decisions he made to save the company

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on why less than 20% monthly growth isn't enough

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on why he kept going: “I knew how to code”

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains why market size caps startup growth

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains why to be a creator first

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on why you're really competing with customer indifference

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains why he doesn’t have a to-do list

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains how v0 can tighten your PRD

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on why Tailwind beats global CSS for shipping features

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains why the next step is no full-time people

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains why he loves ChatGPT for factchecking his biases

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains how founders get VCs to write off an investment for $1

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia on using ChatGPT to evaluate ideas

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia: “You don’t need any multiplication for accounting”

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains how a $40 million fund is actually invested

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains why you should build an audience before seeking a book deal

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains why he added a premium tier

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Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia explains why physical distance helped him

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Intro

▶️Sahil Lavingia: Real Story - Pinterest, Stripe & Gumroad | Creator Economy | The Ranveer Show 11457:56 · 25 May 2021

▶️How Sahil Lavingia created the multi-million dollar company, Gumroad1:00:04 · 2 Jan 2024

Deep

✍️Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company7 Feb 2019

✍️No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees60 min · 7 Jan 2021

📕The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Lessover 4 h · 26 Oct 2021

📄He Wanted a Unicorn. He Got ... a Sustainable Business | WIRED19 Jan 2020

▶️Reflecting on My Failure to Make Gumroad a Billion Dollar Company – Sahil Lavingia at MicroConf46:20 · 23 Mar 2020

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