Make Lemonade

Lemon Squeezy CEO mid-year reflection: funding, features and football

Episode Notes

Today we’re doing a a behind the scenes episode with JR. We haven’t looked at what’s going on since December, so it’s about time I posed some questions to JR about everything from features to growth and more.

Links

• John O'Nolan episode: https://youtu.be/QXwiTZiO46g
• Simon Pittman episode: https://youtu.be/L11ii1qKD5o
• Rob Walling episode: https://youtu.be/M_JbjtIYUh0
• JR's features tweet: https://x.com/jrfarr/status/1791819342784655760
• Product links feature: https://x.com/lmsqueezy/status/1801252160941797848

Timestamps

• 00:00 - Intro
• 00:50 - Guess that guest quote
• 06:02 - Reflecting on 1 year since rejecting venture capital
• 07:57 - Marketing for Lemon Squeezy
• 11:07 - JR embracing the hat-free life
• 12:26 - New features launched
• 14:26 - Do people still want or need merchant of record?
• 18:38 - Lemon Squeezy JavaScript SDK package going gangbusters
• 21:25 - Update on feature requests
• 28:38 - Trends for sellers JR is seeing
• 30:06 - Was Lemon Squeezy easier to build than Mojo?
• 34:56 - JR's dream non-founder guest
• 38:08 - Why JR hates soccer
• 41:43 - How is life for the CEO of Lemon Squeezy

As always thanks for being a listener of the Make Lemonade show. Hosted by @jrfarr & @jmckinven— brought to you by LemonSqueezy.com. 

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