Diego Segura

The idea behind Gumroad was simple: Creators and others should be able to sell their products directly to their audiences with quick, simple links. No need for a storefront.

I built Gumroad the weekend I thought up the idea, and launched it early Monday morning on Hacker News. The reaction exceeded my grandest aspirations. Over 52,000 people checked... See more

Since the 1980s, Paoletti's research has been misinterpreted and has evolved into an urban legend: that there was a full reversal in 1940, prior to which the only tradition observed was the opposite of the current one.[4] Quoting the concluding lines of this study: "In conclusion, there are strong reasons to doubt the validity of the standard PBR... See more

If you tend to blame celebrity culture run amok for our current national woes, you might find some poetry in this week’s news that Interview would fold, bankrupt, just short of its fiftieth year—mired in lawsuits over unpaid work and rampant infighting. But mostly it’s just a bummer, like hearing about an East Village punk den shutting its... See more

"The Fed's own data," observes the August 29 edition of "Early Morning with Dave" (David A. Rosenberg, of course), "show that bank-wide credit card delinquency rates have gone from 1.84% a year ago to 2.43% in the first quarter of 2023 and now to 2.77% in the second quarter. This is also before we have even seen the onset of higher unemployment--is... See more

the famous line in Hemingway ’s The Sun Also Rises , “How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.”

BW: Speaking of pace, how long do these collaborations take, from the first conversation to product launch?

EDV: I would say it’s two to two and a half years until release. Defining the products, where we come up with what we’re going to do, would take at least a year. We define how we’re going to collaborate artistically together, and then... See more

It just makes me think, [the V.C.s] are bad at their job. It’s part of why Barbie is considered such an extreme thing, or a Taylor Swift concert. Men, and I mean largely white, cis men, think male culture is just culture. God forbid that they have to think about something that is not squarely targeted at them. That they can’t possibly try a... See more