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[Bonus] Sahil Lavingia — Gumroad’s Pricing Disaster

The Bootstrapped Founder

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Is Stripe a Good Idea?

Gumroad is trying to keep people on the site by offering a rate that stripe would offer them, maybe we get a little bit of a thing because there's some stripe volume discount where they make go a little bit lower. I think back then, if I could really wind back the clock, I think I should have just increased the prices to 10% then and said, hey, look, we, but maybe if everyone left, we would have died. But anyway, then the tears kind of came as like, what if we just did the math for people? And we said, you know, okay, we start at this this fee that's slightly higher than we had before was

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