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Solopreneurship is the future.
Sahil Lavingia, previously the first designer at Pinterest, founded Gumroad in 2011.
He started it at age 19 after realizing how difficult it was for creators to sell digital products directly to consumers, without having to develop a website and complicated funnels.
In 2012, Gumroad raised $8.1 million in funding from prominent investors in the city of …