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Okay, fire nation. Let's get started. I am simply thrilled to introduce my guest today Ryan Delk Ryan. Are you prepared to ignite?

I am absolutely. Yes

Ryan leads growth at Gumroad a platform that empowers any creator to sell directly to their audience

Previously he spent time at Square and the University of Florida. Go Gators

Give me a listener who's just a little overview Ryan

So take a minute tell us about you personally. We want to get to know you then give us an overview of your business

Absolutely. Yeah, so thanks so much for having me John

I'm really excited to be here today and we yeah, so an overview of me

I was born in Florida grew up there

Sort of always interested in figuring out ways to

You know create value for people or find ways to make money or some little businesses that I could start

You know from really early on and I went to the University of Florida. I thought I was gonna do finance

You know, move to New York and do the whole sort of banker finance thing

I did an internship in that my freshman year and

Sort of quickly realized that that was not the route that I wanted to go for a variety of reasons

And so sophomore year I I was thinking about you know, what is the sort of craziest possible thing?

You know that I could do with that summer because I knew that the next summer

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