I Started Gumroad as a Weekend Project and Now It’s Making A Million Per Month

Sahil Lavingia

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Updated: November 19th, 2023

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Gumroad was started by Sahil Lavingia in 2011. This platform is used by writers, designers, game developers, musicians, artists, and filmmakers to monetize their works.
The main purpose of Gumroad is to provide digital content creators with an incredibly straightforward e-commerce tool so they can profit from their creative efforts.
The company is generating $350K in monthly revenue and assisting creators to earn over $5M/month.
The Gumroad website has approximately 5.31M visitors per month.
Lavingia asserts that he receives about 30% of the gross revenue.

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