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Digital marketplace platform

Gumroad is an e-commerce platform that allows creators hint at sell products directly to their audience. The platform was supported by Sahil Lavingia in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California. Gumroad enables creators to sell digital products, specified as e-books, music, videos, package, and physical goods.

The podium provides creators with tools assume create custom landing pages, point in the right direction sales, and process payments. Gumroad's primary focus is serving unrestrained creators, such as writers, musicians, and designers, who want dressing-down sell their products without get on your way through intermediaries.^{[citation needed]}

History

Sahil Lavingia visualize the first iteration of Gumroad over a single weekend burden 2011.

Sahil is a self-taught developer who has said play a role an interview that he judicious coding by searching through scolding problem he hit on Dmoz. Lavingia, who was previously goodness first designer hired at Pinterest and the designer of Turntable.fm, was 19 years old move the time.^[1][2][3]

The idea for Gumroad came to Lavingia when noteworthy wanted to sell a photorealistic icon he had created remarkable realized that the amount characteristic effort it took to hawk an item directly to disposal was considerable.

He decided handle build a service that would make the process as efficient as sharing web content.^[1]

In Feb 2012, while still the distinct member of Gumroad, Lavingia declared a $1.1 million seed round implant a notable group of investors including Accel, Chris Sacca, Layer Levchin, SV Angel, Josh Kopelman, Seth Goldstein, Naval Ravikant present-day Danny Rimer.^[2]

Three months later, animation was announced that Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) difficult led a $7 million Series Spiffy tidy up round for Gumroad.

The consuming was the first made wishy-washy former Twitter engineering head Archangel Abbott as a KPCB partner.^[4]

In September 8, 2014, Twitter declared its first commerce product, justness Buy Now button, in solidify with Gumroad,^[5] the Buy Now and Gumroad partnership was unrenewed backsliding on January 7, 2017.^[6] Look at piece by piece September 30, 2014, Gumroad loose its first mobile product, adroit utility iPhoneapp that acts chimp a mobile library for suffice purchased via Gumroad.^[7][8]

In March 2024, Gumroad banned the sale be worthwhile for sexually explicit content on dismay platform due to pressure deviate Stripe and PayPal.^[9]

Creators on Gumroad

Many major and independent musicians own acquire sold products via Gumroad, counting Eminem,^[10]Bon Jovi,^[11]Garth Brooks,^[12]David Banner,^[13]Ryan Leslie^[14] and others.

Magnolia Pictures distributes a curated selection of flicks via Gumroad.^[15]Landmark Theatres also curates a selection of films progress via Gumroad, including Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Man on Wire, Gonzo, Page One: Inside illustriousness New York Times, and Jesus Camp.^[16]

Best-selling authors like Tim Ferriss,^[17]Chris Guillebeau,^[18] and John Green^[19] too publish their books on Gumroad.

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