Acquired / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
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24 published records
01 / belief
“I would say the biggest accomplishment since joining Stripe was just the growth of the community forum, which is now on the home page.”
02 / belief
“I wasn’t sure. But I knew that if I was going to name it Indie Hackers, go for something where the brand actually mattered, which I think is important if you’re going to have something that’s free and I was getting a lot of users in the door, but it didn’t have a business model, then I wanted to own my brand.”
03 / belief
“Does everybody have an equal chance to do this? I think, in a way, nobody's quite equal.”
04 / belief
“McDonald's is crazy, they have 20,000 restaurants in the United States. That's an easy story to understand and to tell, but I think the much more impactful story is there are 600,000 individuals who have restaurants in the United States.”
05 / belief
“I got rejected once and I got an email from Paul Graham and he was like, I think you could have done this better.”
06 / belief
“Indie Hackers scored the highest on my rubric because it was so quick to build. But I felt really bad because here I am the software developer, from building all of these other startups, I learned so much stuff from building startups over the years and failing time and time again.”
07 / evaluation
“I somehow figured out that that was the best school you can go to if you wanted to be a computer scientist.”
08 / belief
“Pretty much everybody can figure out something really specific that no one else is doing and stake their claim on the internet, which I think is super cool.”
09 / belief
“I think 10 years from now, people will look back, like the quaint times of 2020 when you could do anything and it would get attention.”
10 / uncertainty
“The second one, I don’t know the answer to. We don't have a process, we don't measure.”
11 / belief
“By the end of YC, I think we had 100,000 users, but back in the day there was nothing.”
12 / evaluation
“Where the first thing you want to do is you want to figure out, what are the problems that your potential customers have so you don’t build some random product that doesn’t solve their pain points.”
13 / uncertainty
“We met in a coffee shop in San Francisco and I had maybe a month of money in my bank account. I don't know what I would have done.”
14 / belief
“I think that applies to even coming up with startup ideas and trying to figure out a business model.”
15 / belief
“I had a ton of fun just doing stuff in the 90s on my computer, a lot of support around me. In one way, I think I had the world heavyweight champion of childhood scene.”
16 / belief
“I think during the Stripe beta, I’d maybe gone in there and looked at a little Stripe chat room and pointed out some bugs and asked some questions.”
17 / belief
“Who knows how many startups it’s going to take, but you’ll get there as long as you’re learning and you persist. I think the most important thing you can do is figure out how to keep going.”
18 / belief
“A really cool thing happened, because there weren't that many Facebook apps and because I think people were just looking for stuff to write about, a bunch of these small tech publications just wrote about it.”
19 / uncertainty
“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.”
20 / belief
“I have this whole point that I make to friends and it always gets a mixed reception. I think everybody is a business.”
21 / evaluation
“That's what I think is so cool about this, unless you disagree. You're the authority, but I don't think being an Indie Hacker means you don't want to raise money or you don't want to build something big.”
22 / evaluation
“I think that's what's so cool is small business entrepreneurship in the past was a great way to build wealth and do well for your family and for yourself, but with the same or honestly less amount of effort now on the internet this path exists.”
23 / evaluation
“That was an error, too, where they were so few web products, where when you did one and you made a new website, it could stand out because there just wasn't a lot of noise.”
24 / preference
“I was proud to be a Dropbox user and abandoned my flash drive because it was a YC company.”