53: 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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Sponsors:

• Wake
• Wake

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