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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

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2101 points jamesjyu | 1 comments | 07 Feb 19 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.222s | source
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austenallred ◴[07 Feb 19 17:38 UTC] No.19106780[source]▶
I’m incredibly grateful for Gumroad - Lambda School (YC S17) wouldn’t exist without it.

We threw up a my book on Gumroad because why not/it was easy, and now I believe we’re sitting north of $100k in sales. I don’t think we would have put it anywhere else - wasn’t worth the effort. I often think about how important it is to remove even the slightest amount of friction as a result.

I also find the move from KPCB admirable. They gave up their interest in the company (it was a loss for them anyway) and allowed the company to flourish. Hats off for that.

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1. randall ◴[07 Feb 19 18:16 UTC] No.19107084[source]▶
Indie.vc is built to make this not admirable, but the norm. I think KPCB is amazing and should be totally shouted out for this, but indie.vc is building an entire model so that founders don't have to choose.