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Why Did Sahil Lavingia Move to Provo Utah
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When his company, Gumroad, was flatlining, he wanted to work on something he could control and writing fiction was one of them. There was a great class going on in Provo, only available to the local community. Sahil got into the class, so the obvious answer was to pack up and move to Provo to do it.
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