344: Sahil Lavingia On Building Technology Companies

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2020

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Sahil Lavingia is the co-founder and CEO of Gumroad, a technology platform that helps creatives earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience. He was previously the number two employee at Pinterest. In this conversation, we discuss the Gumroad story, the pros and cons of raising venture capital, why Sahil operates with such transparency, how he decided to start a fund, the economics of a VC fund, how to evaluate product-market fit, the no code movement, and his thoughts on Bitcoin and crypto. When the New Yorker magazine asked Mark Zuckerberg how he gets his news he said the one news source he definitely follows is Techmeme. For more than two years and nearly 700 episodes, The Techmeme Ride Home has been Silicon Valley’s favorite tech news podcast. The Techmeme Ride Home is a daily podcast, only fifteen to twenty minutes long, and every day by 5pm eastern its ALL the latest tech news. =============================== The Trends premium weekly report helps you understand market trends poised to skyrocket and how you can pounce. Join the private network of 5k+ builders, founders, and investors spotting tomorrow’s trends. Expand your network, and discover the next big business idea before it explodes: https://trends.co/pomp/ =============================== Pomp writes a daily letter to over 50,000 investors about business, technology, and finance. He breaks down complex topics into easy to understand language, while sharing opinions on various aspects of each industry. You can subscribe at https://www.pompletter.com

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to the Pomp
0:05.3	podcast, simply the best podcast out there. Let's kick this thing off. Sahil Lavinga is the co-founder and
0:13.0	CEO of Gumroad, a technology platform that helps creatives earn a living selling the stuff they
0:18.5	make directly to their audience. He was previously the second employee at Pinterest.
0:23.6	In this conversation, we discussed the Gumroad story, the pros and cons of raising venture
0:28.6	capital, why Sahil operates with such transparency, how he decided to start a fund, the economics
0:34.6	of a VC fund, how to evaluate product market fit, the no code movement,
0:39.8	and his thoughts on Bitcoin and Crypto.
0:41.7	I really enjoyed this almost two hour long conversation, and I hope you do as well.
0:46.7	Before we get into the episode, though, I want to quickly talk about our sponsors.
0:50.1	The first is a new podcast.
0:52.3	When the New Yorker magazine asked Mark Zuckerberg how he gets his news, he said the one news source he definitely follows is TechMeep.
0:59.0	For more than two years and nearly 700 episodes, the TechMeme Ride Home has been Silicon Valley's favorite tech news podcast.
1:06.0	The TechMeme Ride Home is a daily podcast only 15 to 20 minutes long, and every day by 5 p.m. Eastern,
1:12.9	it's all the latest tech news.
1:15.0	But it's more than just headlines.
1:16.3	You could get a robot to read your headlines.
1:18.2	The tech meme ride home is all the context around the latest news of the day.
1:21.6	It's all the top stories, the top post and tweets and conversations about those stories, as well
1:25.8	as behind-the-scenes analysis. The TechMeme
1:28.4	Ride Home is like the TLDR as a service. The folks at TechMeme are online all day reading everything
1:34.1	so that you can catch up. So listen to the one podcast, anyone who's anyone in Silicon Valley
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