"I feel like it was gifted to me. Like someone said, 'I don't want to work on Gumroad anymore, you have it.' Which actually did happen — it was just an old version of me. And now I'm like, 'Oh, cool. That's cool. Thanks for trusting me with this thing. I'll see what I can do, if I can fit it into my life.' It's like a thing that I made but it has its own life, and it has its own trajectory, and it has its own needs and wants. And they're not always going to align with mine. I'm okay with that. I actually don't need it to anymore. I don't need this to be my life's work, you know? And yeah, I'm sort of in what I call my 'quarter-life crisis.' That could have something to do with it. But I've been in it for like three years, so maybe this is it. Maybe my new state is this."⠀
Q - Could you have taken Gumroad this far without initially raising ~ $8m?
Not this quickly. It's an expensive product to build and the unit economics are tough.
Whew, I feel you.