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🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, employee #2 at Pinterest, an artist, and he writes really dope tweets.
In March this year, his company Gumroad raised $5M in 12 hours by crowdfunding from his customers at a $100M evaluation.
Now, Sahil is launching his first book titled “The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less” where he shows founders how to build a great company without an Ivy League degree and millions of dollars in venture capital.
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0:00.0 | My goal is to basically be in the top 100 figure drawers alive. |
0:03.6 | And I think I can do it because I think starting now |
0:06.7 | and with my schedule, I will be able to put in |
0:09.9 | in terms of hours in the top 100 alive. |
0:13.4 | Like most people don't draw as much as I do. |
0:16.3 | Even professionals that I talk to, right? |
0:18.0 | They're like, you draw us live from a model |
0:20.9 | six hours a week, like, how do you do that? don't you have a day job and I'm like |
0:23.8 | nope not really I can basically out-compete basically anybody because I have more time |
0:31.2 | what is up you sexy bastards It is your boy the crypto farmer aka |
0:35.0 | rabbi can lose aka no-kegan. In today's episode I talk to |
0:37.8 | Sahil lavin. He is the founder of gumrood.com he's the employee number two at |
0:41.6 | Pinterest he's an artist and he writes amazing |
0:43.8 | tweets. He's kind of basically the modern day Steve Jobs. I love this guy and |
0:47.0 | every time I could have a conversation with him. Now in March his company Comrade |
0:50.6 | raised five million dollars in 12 hours. I also invested. Also Seville is launching |
0:55.7 | his first book. I bought it, I haven't fully devoured it, but I love all his material. |
0:59.5 | I think it's going to be a phenomenal book. It is the minimalist entrepreneur. How great founders do more with less. In our |
1:04.6 | conversation today he talks about how he only works a few hours a week and has an amazing |
1:09.0 | life. It's really really exciting and he shares exactly how he does it in the minimalist |
1:12.2 | entrepreneur. |
1:13.0 | I recommend you check it out. |
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