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Sahil Lavingia: Pushing Forward Through Technical Debt After a Massive Layoff

Sahil Lavingia: Pushing Forward Through Technical Debt After a Massive Layoff

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Sahil Lavingia: Pushing Forward Through Technical Debt After a Massive Layoff

FromMaintainable

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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
May 6, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Robby speaks with Sahil Lavingia, Founder and CEO of Gumroad. Sahil has been transparent about the challenges of building a company – speaking on VC investments, layoffs, and more. Sahil talks about why he built Gumroad, adjusting development processes when your staff shrinks, working with VCs, and the future of Gumroad, including the pros and cons of potentially open sourcing the product.
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Released:
May 6, 2019
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Titles in the series (100)

Feel like you’re hitting a wall with your existing software projects? You're not alone. On the Maintainable software podcast, we speak with seasoned practitioners who have worked past the problems often associated with technical debt and legacy code. In each episode, our guests will share stories and outline tangible, real-world approaches to software challenges. In turn, you'll uncover new ways of thinking about how to improve your software project's maintainability. We're in this together. Enjoy the show!