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