Shawn David | Founder, Author, Podcast Host

$4B+

Revenue to date built from a basement beanbag

4.8★

Apple Podcasts rating across 116 episodes

#1

Amazon bestseller from Forbes Books

LOVE

Nasdaq-listed founder and CEO

The podcast · 100+ episodes

Let Me Save You25YearsWith Shawn David

Weekly conversations with founders, athletes, scientists and CEOs. Each one built around a lesson they learned the hard way.

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The 18-Year-Old Champion Who Walked Away From Everything

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Gary Vaynerchuk

Business Is a Contact Sport

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Mark Cuban

There’s a Million Ways to Make a Million Bucks

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Neil Blumenthal

The Simple Rule That Built Warby Parker: Make Good Stuff

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Now Is Better Than Perfect

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Off the Clock.

Shawn loves spending time with his family, friends and team. Trips, trails and long weekends, far from the office.

Shawn David and his son on a red rock canyon hike

Shawn David and Tiffany dressed for dinner at a resort

Shawn David celebrating with the Lovesac team at ManagerFest

Shawn David singing lead with an 80s rock cover band at Lovesac Amped

Shawn David laid back on a MovieSac in the bed of the white number 199 Subaru race car at Pastranaland

Shawn David with dirt bikes in the desert

Shawn David with Snoop Dogg, kicked back on a leopard-print Sac

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Let Me Save You 25 Years by Shawn David, hardcover

The book

#1 Amazon BestsellerForbes Books2025 IPPY Silver Medal, Biography

Let Me Save You 25 Years.

Mistakes, Miracles, and Lessons from the Lovesac Story

Shawn built Lovesac from a beanbag in his parents' basement into a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq. This is the unfiltered playbook: what nearly destroyed him, what saved him, and the 25 lessons he wishes someone had handed him at the start.

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Praise for the book

What builders are saying.

“A highly entertaining read filled with valuable lessons for anyone starting a business.”

Sir Richard BransonFounder, Virgin Group

“Shawn and I met while crossing between two hot air balloons 10,000 feet in the air.”

Sara BlakelyFounder & Inventor, Spanx

“Full of roll-up-your-sleeves advice and infectious optimism.”

Daniel H. Pink#1 New York Times bestselling author of Drive

“I think this is a great book because Shawn's a Mavs season ticket holder!”

Mark CubanEntrepreneur

Shawn David as a teenager in the basement workshop where Lovesac began — 1995. The basement where it started.

Shawn David celebrating Lovesac's Nasdaq listing — 2018. Nasdaq.

About Shawn

$0 to $4 billion.
The hard way.

In 1995, an 18-year-old in Utah built an 8-foot beanbag in his parents' basement. That was the beginning of Lovesac, a company that survived bankruptcy and near-death before ringing the opening bell on Nasdaq in 2018.

Today Shawn is the Founder and CEO of Lovesac (Nasdaq: LOVE), an Amazon #1 bestselling author published by Forbes Books, a keynote speaker, and host of Let Me Save You 25 Years.