# Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company

<https://medium.com/@shl/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-a-billion-dollar-company-b0c31d7db0e7>

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- Saved: February 13, 2019 (2019-02-14T01:31:55Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

Reflections from the CEO and Founder of [Gumroad](https://gumroad.com) on building the business and the significant ups and downs. He grounds back to delivering value. It seems obvious, but that is really what matters.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT93: Weekly Thing #93 / Feb 16, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/93/), Featured Links 🏅

## Same host

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- [No thank you, Mr. Pecker – Jeff Bezos – Medium](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/15defdcecda2/) (medium.com, February 13, 2019)
- [Evolving Microservices with Event Sourcing – Damon Allison – Medium](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/486e955fde5c/) (medium.com, February 21, 2019)
- [How to Apply The Principles of Long-Term Investing to Everything](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/601a6d34b18f/) (medium.com, March 7, 2019)

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- [The Observation Deck » Reflecting on The Soul of a New Machine](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e21aea1e45eb/) (dtrace.org, February 13, 2019)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://medium.com/@shl/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-a-billion-dollar-company-b0c31d7db0e7