Sahil Lavingia - CEO of Gumroad: What happens when you move from SF to Provo, Utah?

Like, there are so many examples of startups that are massively successful that worked 40 hours a week. You know, like, Twitter is, like, sort of famous for that or wasn't really talking, but definitely there was a multiple years where everyone kind of joked about Airbnb was the same. You know, like, people would sort of say, look like people at Airbnb don't really work that hard.

Hi, my name is Stuart Alsop, and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom, where I interview creative people about how they work with and manage the stress that is inherent in creative work. What I've realized over the past 10 years of my research is that anybody who is creating something of value that is significantly different from what has come before is considered crazy. Most of us have a fear, an ingrained fear of going crazy. So what I'm saying is grab onto that fear, realize that it's there, and just go with it. Because the problems we're going to be facing over the next 20 years require crazy people in order to solve them. Okay, welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. My guest here is Saville Vincent, and he is the CEO of Gumroad, and he has a lot of interesting things to say about how he started his company and the direction he wanted to take it and how things ended up differently. And we were just chatting before about how he ended up moving to Utah. Really excited to figure out why he did that and the reasons behind that. Welcome to the show. I love having you on here.