Gumroad Open Board Meeting #3
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Our third open board meeting! To find out about the next one we do, follow me at gumroad.com/sahil/follow
The education note in Gumroad’s second open board meeting
Our second open board meeting! To find out about the next one we do, follow me at gumroad.com/sahil/follow
Across the Border
A story about the distances technology fails to bridge.
From Bubble to Bubble
I was used to solving problems, but now I didn’t know what problem to solve. I look back and see the hundreds, if not thousands, of things I tweeted. They were funny, maybe, but besides inflate my ego and follower count, I’m not sure what impact they had.
“Most profound thing I've learned in the past eight years is the difference between behavior and intention. Behavior is what someone is doing, intention is why they're doing it. You judge yourself based on your intention, and everyone else based on thei
Most profound thing I've learned in the past eight years is the difference between behavior and intention. Behavior is what someone is doing, intention is why they're doing it.You judge yourself based on your intention, and everyone else based on their behavior.— Sahil Lavingia (@shl) March 21, 2019
Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
But I was accountable to our creators, our employees, and our investors–in that order. That’s what I told every new hire and every investor. I didn’t want to become a serial entrepreneur, and risk disappointing another customer base. and this was the first time in my life when the present year felt worse than the last. There was a path to an independent business, not beholden to the go-big-or-go-home mentality I signed up for when I raised money. So instead of pretending to be some sort of product visionary, trying to build a billion-dollar company, I’m just focused on making Gumroad better and better for our existing creators. Because they are the ones that have kept us alive. Instead of freaking out about how ‘small’ Gumroad actually is (like I thought they would), our creators have grown more loyal. It feels like we’re all in this together, trying to do earn a living doing what we love.