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Re:Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by sahillavingia on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:05PM (#19107003)
I don't think Gumroad could be the high-quality, full-featured product it is today without raising VC funding. Less, maybe, but bootstrapped, no.

(Though, I was living in SF.)

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Re:Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by halfmatthalfcat on Thursday February 07, 2019 @02:08PM (#19107538)
What was the biggest cost sink? Engineering, marketing, sales?
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