The Delphi Podcast22 Dec 2021

Sahil Lavingia: Leaving as Pinterest Employee #2, Gumroad Creators Earning $500M, and Why Web2 Companies Can‘t Compete with Web3

The Delphi Podcast Host and GP of Delphi Ventures Tom Shaughnessy sits down with Sahil Lavingia, Founder of Gumroad, a powerful, but simple, e-commerce platform that helps creators monetize digital products and memberships. The two discuss Sahil’s decision to leave Pinterest, Web3’s edge over Web2, decentralizing Gumroad and shifting to a Web3 model, and much more!

Show Notes:

(00:00:00) – Introduction.

(00:01:28) – Sahil’s background.

(00:05:24) – The decision to leave Pinterest / Starting Gumroad.

(00:13:41) – Working through adversity.

(00:21:45) – Advice to crypto founders.

(00:36:56) – Decentralizing Gumroad.

(00:45:31) – Thoughts on merging Web2 and Web3.

(00:48:48) – Social credit and pseudonymity.

(00:53:07) – Why Web2 and Web3 are not mutually exclusive.

(01:03:27) – Web3’s edge over Web2.

(01:09:15) – Pushing change forward on the societal level.

(01:13:41) – Sahil and Gumroad’s shift into Web3.

(01:20:35) – The most impactful idea in Sahil’s book.

(01:23:43) – Closing

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