Minimalist Entrepreneur Book Summary with Sahil Lavingia of Gumroad

Sahil Lavingia, The Minimalist Entrepreneur

Today I’m talking to Sahil Lavingia about his book, The Minimalist Entrepreneur, How Great Founders Do More with Less.

Sahil Lavingia is the author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur, How Great Founders Do More with Less.

Andrew: Hey, they’re freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs often, uh, over the course of what, 15 years or so that I’ve done this often I get to interview the same entrepreneurs repeatedly. Um, joining me is someone who’s been on several times.

Uh, Sahil, Lavinia. He is the founder of Gumroad a company that was incredibly promising on the verge of being a unicorn. Then it wasn’t. And then he got depressed. I don’t know that I want it. Are you depressed?

Sahil: Um, people would call me depressed. I don’t know if I would use it. Yeah, it’s a heavy word.

Andrew: Yeah, let’s just say he has suffered a setback. There wasn’t everything that you were expecting it to be. And so when the company wasn’t a unicorn, uh, you took some time away from, uh, the tech space. You started going to church, you started going to a small CSS meetups and...

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