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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Sponsors:

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Sahil on the Web:

Twitter
GitHub
Medium
Gumroad
Dribbble

Show Notes:

4:00 - Introductions

Gumroad
Kyle Webster

6:00 - Building audiences

Small Product Lab
The Fault In Our Stars
Missionary vs. Mercenary
@shl
On Writing

46:00 - Design challenges

Jeremy Goldberg
George Kedenburg III

Twitter Mentions