An interview with Gumroad CEO Sahil Lavingia about working as an unpaid contractor for DOGE, moving the Gumroad code base to the MIT license, and more
Ernie Smith / Fast Company :
Gumroad, an e-commerce company for creators, updates its rules to more strictly limit NSFW content, citing policies of payment processors like Stripe and PayPal
Somehow marketplace owners are not allowed to disclose who is threatening to pull the plug behind their negotiations. — It is not like they are threaten by a 3-letter national agency and secret cour...
Gumroad's CEO on the company's first 10 years, competitors like Patreon and Substack, the rise of the creator economy, and how app store “taxes” stifle growth
Danny Konstantinovic / The Business of Business : Tweets: @trengriffin , @thebizofbiz , @efeng , @griffingranberg , @benedictevans , and @benedictevans . Thanks: @smalera Tweets: Tren Griffin / @tren...
Gumroad's CEO on the company's first 10 years, competitors like Patreon and Substack, the rise of the creator economy, and how app store “taxes” stifle growth
When you visit Gumroad's website, one of the first things you see is a simple promise. — “Gumroad makes it possible for you to: Escape your 9-5 desk job. Tweets: @efeng , @griffingranberg , @benedic...
Gumroad, which helps creators sell their works, raised $5M via the SEC's new rules, which raised equity crowdfunding from $1.07M to $5M per year on March 15
Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch :
Hoffman and Yeh's “Blitzscaling” offers practical advice for startups but presents a lot of revisionist history and ignores the perils of VC-fueled hypergrowth
The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. — Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market. Tweets: @ulaar , @joshelman , @schulte_stef ,...
E-commerce startup Gumroad lays off most of its staff after failing to realize rapid growth, says it will stay in business
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch : Tweets: @amyhoy Tweets: Amy Hoy / @amyhoy : if you use gumroad... be wary, i can't imagine they can run it effectively with ~3 people http://techcrunch.com/...
E-commerce startup Gumroad lays off most of its staff after failing to realize rapid growth, says it will stay in business
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch : Tweets: @amyhoy Tweets: Amy Hoy / @amyhoy : if you use gumroad... be wary, i can't imagine they can run it effectively with ~3 people http://techcrunch.com/...