Speaker unverified: uncertainty

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…Were going to make you a star. Yeah, going to be able to do it. Some people can do it, but that's not why people typically apply to jobs because if they wanted to do that, they would go start their own thing. I was worried, what is my responsibility going to be like. Am I going to be a normal Stripe employee or not? Then the third box, it’s just like me and the community was, what does Stripe want to get out of this. I wanted to know what Stripe wanted to get out of it because it's hard to predict if we're going to align, if I don't know why you're even doing this. To Patrick and the leadership team—credit. They're very open minded folks. They don't necessarily need a ton of proof that something is going to work. If something is directionally pointing in the right direction and it can work, they're more than happy to take a chance. With Indie Hackers and Stripe, Indie Hackers doesn't capture a lot of the value that it creates. If people start companies and their companies succeed because of Indie Hackers, because of a story they heard, because somebody helped him in the community—how do I make money from that, it turned out it didn't, but other companies can capture that value, including Stripe. Because if Stripe is the best product on the market, what are they going to use for their new companies? They’re going to use Stripe. Patrick just trusted that we think that you can make Indie Hackers really big and meaningful, you've done a great job so far. It's hard to even measure. Even if you do make it big, we'll never know exactly how much it’s contributed and added to our sales, but that's fine. A couple of questions here and I'll ask them together so you know both are coming. You don't have to give me numbers or clauses but I'm looking for broad strokes. What do you need to put into a legal contract in order to allay those concerns? What do you just leave to trust? Because ultimately, these things come down to do you trust me, do I trust you, and are we aligned? That's the first one. The second one is how on earth do you go about figuring out what a fair deal looks like based on what your business was before it was acquired?…

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