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

References:

Sahil's web page
https://sahillavingia.com/

Ask My Book: interrogate Sahil's book via LLM
https://askmybook.com/


Creators and Guests

Stephen Hsu
Host
Stephen Hsu
Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University.
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