Tuesday 12 February 2019

Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company


In 2011 I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest–before I vested any of my stock–to work on what I thought would be my life’s work. Just had an idea for my first billion-dollar company. Tomorrow, I start building it. — Sahil Lavingia (@shl) April 2, 2011 Gumroad would become a billion-dollar company, with hundreds of employees. It would IPO, and I would work on it until I died. Something like that. That didn’t happen. Now, it may look like I am in an enviable position, running a profitable, growing, and low-maintenance software business with customers who adore…

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http://bit.ly/2N2r1ky Sahil Lavingia February 12, 2019 at 06:00AM

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