#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Sahil Lavingia is the founder and CEO of Gumroad, an online marketplace for creators. In this conversation Sahil and Shane cover building a billion dollar business, the most critical skills for success, how he hires, his worst mistake, the patterns of success and failure and so much more.

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0:00.0	I wish I knew earlier that like my company was still my responsibility.
0:04.6	No one was going to fix my problems.
0:06.2	They were investing because they believed in me and they believed in my potential.
0:10.9	But it was up to me to still sort of take that potential energy and turn it into kinetic
0:16.1	energy.
0:17.1	It wasn't a handout.
0:18.1	It wasn't like, you know, you're going to get these people to come into your office and
0:21.6	help you solve problems day in, day out.
0:23.6	No one's going to make you rich.
0:24.6	And people are busy solving their own problems.
0:44.0	Welcome to the Knowledge Project podcast.
0:46.3	This is Shane Parrish.
0:47.7	This podcast and our website, FS.blog, helps sharpen your mind by mastering the best what
0:52.2	other people have already figured out.
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1:07.9	My guest today is Sehill Living Yeah.
1:10.3	Sehill was the second employee at Pinterest and left to start building Gumroad, a service
1:14.5	that's helped creators earn more than 300 million.
1:17.8	We talk about the hardest skills to succeed in business.
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