Robby 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.
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- Follow Sahil on Twitter
- Gumroad
- Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion Dollar Company
- High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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