> While Gumroad was no longer on track to become a billion-dollar company, I acquired a new asset: time. That’s okay, becoming a billion dollar company doesn’t

> While Gumroad was no longer on track to become a billion-dollar company, I acquired a new asset: time. That’s okay, becoming a billion dollar company doesn’t have to be your goal. Staying smaller might be good not just for your work-life balance, but also for the user experience. Some prefer the stability it brings: you don’t have to worry that features or projects get canceled because they are not growing fast enough; that the app gets sold to some social network that starts spying on users or an AI is blocking accounts inexplicably etc.