Image credit: articlelist.com This is the second in our How We Made It in Ecommerce series. Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, an ecommerce platform that allows creators to monetize their wares. T o date Gumroad has paid out more than $180 million to creators. Click here to listen to the podcast Our first interview was with Trina Felber, the founder of Primal Life Organics . Our next will be wit Read more
Click here or on the image above to listen to the podcast. In this episode we talk to Shayan Zadeh , the co-founder of Zoosk (sold for $250 Million) and now the CEO of Dressbarn . Discover: How he acquired the first 200,000 users overnight for Zoosk and solved the classic chicken-egg problem, common in marketplaces (men won't come till there are women and vice-versa) Did he rig Zoosk to favor Read more
Davis Smith is the CEO of Cotopaxi , a company that sells a premium line of outdoor gear. Before founding Cotopaxi, a B-corp that has been a subject of a Harvard Business School case study, Smith had founded two other companies: baby.com.br and pooltable.com. We asked him how he went from selling baby products in Brazil and pool tables in the US to founding Cotopaxi, and what being a certified B-Corp means to h Read more