Sharing Failures and Setting Expectations with Sahil Lavingia

Joining Chris on the latest episode of Talking Too Loud is Sahil Lavingia, the founder and CEO of Gumroad, a web platform where creators can sell digital products directly to their audience and consumers. Despite running a profitable business today, Sahil considered himself a failure for years. To reflect on his failures trying to build a billion-dollar company, Sahil took to a blog post to open up about the financial challenges of Gumroad, the tough layoffs he made, and more. Little did he know it would gain traction and have an impact on a number of folks. Tune in to hear all the major lessons he’s learned about setting clear expectations when building relationships with investors and customers, and why sharing his failures and successes is part of his “secret sauce.”