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Who Founded Gumroad

Gumroad empowers creators to sell digital products directly.

  • Sahil Lavingia

    Sahil Lavingia

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    Founder of Gumroad
    “Founders in ArmsStartup to State: Sahil Lavingia on Gumroad, Profitability, and His Time at DOGE1×0:00Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -54:40-54:40Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.Startup to State: Sahil Lavingia on Gumroad,…”
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    “The Growth PodcastHow to PM Production Changes with Devin: Tutorial From Gumroad CEO, Sahil Lavingia1621×0:00Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -28:05-28:05Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.How to PM Production Changes with Devin: Tutorial From Gumroad CEO, Sahil Lavin...”
    “205 Likes 6 Bookmarks 48 Comments Hello! What's your background, and what are you working on? Hi! My name is Sahil Lavingia. I run a small company called Gumroad, where we ship a super-simple e-commerce tool for digital content creators. Before that, I was at Pinterest where I designed and develo...”
    “Episode #100 After leaving his post as employee #2 at Pinterest, a teenage Sahil Lavingia (@shl) raised millions in funding from high-profile Silicon Valley to build a unicorn startup that could change the world — Gumroad. Today he lives in tiny Provo, Utah, spends much of his time learning to wr...”
    “…DB](https://www.indiehackers.com/ideas)[Products DB](https://www.indiehackers.com/products) [Join](https://www.indiehackers.com/sign-up) 9 Likes 1 Bookmark 1 Comment Report # Hit $500K in MRR! [by Sahil Lavingia](https://www.indiehackers.com/sahil) We accomplished this by doing absolutely nothin...”
    “r/GrowthHacking on Reddit: The $2M/month lesson every SaaS founder should steal from Gumroad Sahil Lavingia built Gumroad as a weekend project in 2011 because he was frustrated. He wanted to sell his design work, and the process sucked. So he shipped something simple: a link, a product, and payme...”