Design Details

53: Solving the Shout Problem (feat. Sahil Lavingia)

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Today we caught up with Sahil Lavingia, the founder and CEO at Gumroad. We chat about building an audience online, the challenges of being a designer, engineer and founder, and what the hiring process looks like at Gumroad.

If you missed it, we recently announced Spec, a new podcast network for designers and developers! We hope you'll check it out and follow @specfm on Twitter for new shows and updates!

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    • Sahil on the Web:
    • Twitter
    • GitHub
    • Medium
    • Gumroad
    • Dribbble
      • Show Notes:

      4:00 - Introductions

      • Gumroad
      • Kyle Webster

        • 6:00 - Building audiences

        • Small Product Lab
        • The Fault In Our Stars
        • Missionary vs. Mercenary
        • @shl
        • On Writing

          • 46:00 - Design challenges

          • Jeremy Goldberg
          • George Kedenburg III
            • ...more
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