Today, Steve sits down with Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad-- a platform that allows content creators to do what they love for a living. In this episode, Sahil talks about his 8 years of working on Gumroad including failing to raise money, laying off 75% of his company, building back up and so much more. Steve shares why he’s ecstatic to have Sahil on the show since he talks insights on how startup entrepreneurs do a lot of internal exploration as they do business since it’s part of their identity. 

In this episode of Sound Money, Steve talks about the difference between accredited and non-accredited investors. Steve shares the advantages of being an accredited investor. The list of benefits includes access to high-yielding assets and consumer protection system. Steve also talks about the difference between accredited and non-accredited investors in terms of lifestyles. Because of the protection system, non-accredited investors often experience a more significant risk of losing their money in gambling and casinos compared to the accredited people. Steve shares that the accreditation system poses a difficult problem for aspiring investors.

Steve dives into the importance of having a “quality over quantity” mindset in business. Despite the positive impact of social media, Steve revealed that a hundred loyal supporters are more beneficial for a company than having a thousand followers on Instagram. Steve also shares that it is essential for business owners to develop products and services over producing the same items to maintain customers. Steve shares that a business may lose consumers when the owner drives up the cost for a product. However, the decision allows companies to focus on improving the quality of the service.

In this episode of Sound Money, Steve McGarry talks about how happiness fits in a business. Steve reveals how measuring happiness is a difficult task for business owners. However, they can do it by engaging customers in a survey about their products or services. Neoclassical economic theories suggest that a higher income will make people happy. However, Steve notices that the new generation of employees is switching to remote jobs to have quality leisure. Steve talks about the study of Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton to support how a higher pay might not improve emotional well-being. 

In this episode, Steve talks to Molekule Senior Vice President Gaurav Agarwal, who raised the bar in the air purifier market. Gaurav explains how Molekule used nanotechnology to come up with an air purifier capable of destroying pollutants in the molecular scale. With Molekule’s groundbreaking product, Gaurav shares how the startup business transitioned into a successful company. Gaurav also gives us tips on what to look for in potential employees. 

A lot of employees need to stare at computers and other gadgets all day long, which may damage eyes in the long run. As human beings, we need our eyes in a healthy condition at all times. For this episode, Steve talks with Felix Gray CEO David Roger, who created the Brooklyn-based company dedicated to providing people with a stylish way to protect eyesight. After hearing a lot of his colleagues complain about suffering from eye problems after long hours of work, David came up with a viable solution to help people with their office dilemma. 

Ministry of Supply CEO Aman Advani talks about how he founded his business attire fashion empire. Six years ago, Aman struggled with work productivity due to uncomfortable clothes. Aman and his co-founders then decided to combine fashion and comfort with simple clothing hacks suitable for business use. Despite his lack of experience in the field of fashion, Aman pursued numerous avenues and overcame failed attempts to provide people with office-appropriate clothing as strong as athletic gear that can help them achieve their goals. Join Steve as he interviews Aman regarding Ministry of Supply’s growth and success. 

In this episode of the Sound Money Podcast Steve sits down with Alex Song the Founder of DojoMojo. Have you ever heard the saying, “eat your own dog food?” Well, this is exactly how DojoMojo created their business. Learning how to effectively create something that solves a problem that you have is the key to creating something that the market needs. This episode is all about sharing and collaboration in marketing. 

Steve gets to sit down and talk with Ameen Soleimani, the CEO and developer of SpankChain, an adult entertainment platform that aims to bring cryptocurrency into the mix. Thanks to Ameen’s innovative technology, you’ll be able to pay in cryptocurrency, and allow third parties to participate, as well as SpankBank--it supplies the currency SpankChain offers. In 2019, SpankBank aims to elevate everyone’s overall experience further.  

Today, Steve sat down with Mark Anstead, one of the contributors to an open source project called the Project Hydro. Mark discusses what this global and decentralized project is about, what do the diverse growing community of developers comprising it are basically doing, and also shared some insights about what's currently happening in the blockchain ecosystem. On this episode, Steve and Mark also tackled about an interesting technology, the ERC-1484, that Mark and his team are implementing.