Rotem Rubnov

…ors absolutely loved us, but there weren’t enough of them who needed our specific product offering. Product-market fit is great, but we needed to find a new, larger fit to justify raising more money (and then do it again and again, until acquisition or IPO).

It doesn’t matter how amazing your product is, or how fast you ship features. The market you’re in will determine most of your growth. For better or worse, Gumroad grew at roughly the same rate almost every month because that’s how qu…

Turn your iPhone off and it becomes a very shiny and very expensive paperweight. It’s only when you hold the power button to turn it on does it light up with all of its amazing possibility and function.