Sahil LavingiaI am the founder & CEO of Gumroad, which I started in 2011 and raised $10M+ for from Kleiner Perkins, Lowercase Capital, First Round, Naval Ravikant, Max Levchin, and others. I wrote a post about that journey here. Today, Gumroad is at $10M ARR, growing 100% year over year, with a team of 10.I am also a designer and engineer. I can empathize with and help founders solve real problems. I also know when investors should get out of the way. What others have to say:
Not only was Sahil a beta customer in our earliest days (with lots of useful feedback), but he was also a very influential public advocate. Still means a lot! š
ā Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe on February 10, 2020Sahil's tweets led to our first 1,000 waitlist signups.
ā Sid Yadav, CEO of Circle on May 15, 2020
is investing
$7 million a yearLPs include- Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList
- John Lilly, ex-CEO of Mozilla
- Minal Hasan, founder of K2 Global
- Saikat Chakrabati, ex-Chief of Staff for AOC
- Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress
- Josh Kopelman, founder of First Round
- Tim Ferriss, author
- Greg Brockman, ex-CTO Stripe, CTO OpenAI
- Nick Kokonas, co-owner of The Alinea Group
- Paul McKellar, founding team of Square
- Me! Iām putting 80% of my management fees back into the fund as LP capital.
into
early-stage technology startupsIām looking for founders who- have a deep understanding of the space they are in ā they typically read a lot
- haven't waited for permission to get started ā they have hard skills if not degrees
- don't have access to the traditional startup ecosystem
I am interested in products that are- soon-to-be obvious but only recently possible
- solving a difficult, boring, complex problem with an easy-to-use, elegant solution
Iām particularly interested in b2b, SaaS, commerce, the future of work, video, and developer tools.
I've invested in HelloSign, Movable Ink, Lambda School, Figma, Clubhouse, and Haus.
via
$100K-250K checks.I'm writing checks starting now!Formal approach: send a deck or memo to sahil@hey.com.
More casually: direct message me @shl asking for help on something. Iād love to add value before making an investment, not just after.
I am the founder & CEO of Gumroad, which I started in 2011 and raised $10M+ for from Kleiner Perkins, Lowercase Capital, First Round, Naval Ravikant, Max Levchin, and others. I wrote a post about that journey here. Today, Gumroad is at $10M ARR, growing 100% year over year, with a team of 10.
I am also a designer and engineer. I can empathize with and help founders solve real problems. I also know when investors should get out of the way. What others have to say:
ā Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe on February 10, 2020Not only was Sahil a beta customer in our earliest days (with lots of useful feedback), but he was also a very influential public advocate. Still means a lot! š
ā Sid Yadav, CEO of Circle on May 15, 2020Sahil's tweets led to our first 1,000 waitlist signups.
LPs include
- Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList
- John Lilly, ex-CEO of Mozilla
- Minal Hasan, founder of K2 Global
- Saikat Chakrabati, ex-Chief of Staff for AOC
- Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress
- Josh Kopelman, founder of First Round
- Tim Ferriss, author
- Greg Brockman, ex-CTO Stripe, CTO OpenAI
- Nick Kokonas, co-owner of The Alinea Group
- Paul McKellar, founding team of Square
- Me! Iām putting 80% of my management fees back into the fund as LP capital.
Iām looking for founders who
I am interested in products that are
I've invested in HelloSign, Movable Ink, Lambda School, Figma, Clubhouse, and Haus.
- have a deep understanding of the space they are in ā they typically read a lot
- haven't waited for permission to get started ā they have hard skills if not degrees
- don't have access to the traditional startup ecosystem
I am interested in products that are
- soon-to-be obvious but only recently possible
- solving a difficult, boring, complex problem with an easy-to-use, elegant solution
Iām particularly interested in b2b, SaaS, commerce, the future of work, video, and developer tools.
I've invested in HelloSign, Movable Ink, Lambda School, Figma, Clubhouse, and Haus.
I'm writing checks starting now!
Formal approach: send a deck or memo to sahil@hey.com.
More casually: direct message me @shl asking for help on something. Iād love to add value before making an investment, not just after.