Sahil Lavingia: Founding Gumroad, The Minimalist Entrepreneur, and our AI LLM future — Manifold #27

 

Sahil Lavingia founded Gumroad at the age of 19 and built it into a leading digital commerce platform. He is the author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur and an investor in early-stage startups. 

Steve and Sahil discuss: 

0:00 Sahil's upbringing and start as an entrepreneur 

9:35 Tech founder at 19 and VC investment from Kleiner-Perkins 

24:15 Backstory of Gumroad 30:30 Crowdfunding Gumroad 

37:09 Experiments with OpenAI LLM, ChatGPT, and the promise of AI 

Transcript

References: 

Sahil's web page 

https://sahillavingia.com/ 

Ask My Book: interrogate Sahil's book via LLM 

https://askmybook.com/