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Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

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In 2011, I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest — before I vested any of my stock — to work on what I thought would be my life’s work.

Feb 7, 2019 by Sahil Lavingia In 2011, I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest — before I vested any of my stock — to work on what I thought would be my life's work. Just had an idea for my first billion-dollar company. Tomorrow, I start building it. I thought Gumroad would become a billion-dollar company, with hundreds of employees. It would IPO, and I would work on it until I died. Something like that. Needless to say, that didn't happen. Now, it may look like I am in an enviable position, running a profitable, growing, low-maintenance software business serving adoring…

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