#099 – Overcoming Fear and Paralysis to Build an Industry-Changing Business with Aline Lerner of Interviewing.io

Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

Startups, Entrepreneurship, Makers, Indie, Bootstrapping, Online, Technology, Business, Founders, Bootstrappers, Ideas, Tech, Indiehackers, Hackers

4.9 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Although Aline Lerner (@alinelernerllc) graduated from MIT and worked as a software engineer for years, some of her most impactful learnings came from the time she spent working as a cook and moonlighting as a recruiter. Putting all of her experiences together, she realized that hiring in tech could be so much better, and so she started Interviewing.io, a company that has since grown to millions in revenue. In this episode we talk about finding the activation energy to get started, juggling the 50+ responsibilities of being a founder, how to build a team of people you're lucky to have, and how to win big by starting small.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/099-aline-lerner-of-interviewing-io

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0:00.0	What's up everyone?
0:08.6	This is Cortland from IndieHackers.com and you're listening to the IndieHackers podcast.
0:13.1	On this show, I talked to the founders of profitable internet businesses, and I try to get a sense of what it's like to be in their shoes.
0:18.7	How do they get to where they are today?
0:20.0	How do they make decisions, both at their companies and in their personal lives, and what exactly makes your businesses tick? And the goal here, as always, is so that the rest of us can learn from their example and go on to build our own successful internet businesses. Today I'm talking to Aileen Learner, the founder of a company called Interviewing.io. Aline, this episode has been a long time in the making, glad to finally have you on here.
0:38.6	Hey. founder of a company called Interviewing.io. Aline, this episode has been a long time in the making.
0:39.8	Glad to finally have you on here.
0:40.6	Hey.
0:43.6	I'm very excited to be here, a big fan.
0:50.6	Right at the top of your website, you say that tactical interviewing and looking for a job as a software engineer are annoying.
0:53.8	And that at interviewing I.O, you make both of these things less terrible. Tell us about
0:54.9	how you do that. I wrote that copy. I'm very pleased with it. That was one of my questions. I was
1:00.0	going to ask, who wrote this copy? It was a you? It was me. It was me. For better or for worse. I'll tell
1:05.9	you a bit about some earlier copy we had later, if you'd like, the one I was very proud of that we can't use anymore.
1:12.7	So what was a question?
1:16.7	What a great start to this interview.
1:18.2	This is amazing.
1:20.5	What do you do? What is interviewing I.O.?
1:22.8	Who uses it? Why do they use it?
1:25.3	So interviewing I.O. is, well, depending on who I'm pitching, I position
1:29.9	it very differently. But given that this is mostly, I think our listeners are mostly software
1:34.2	engineers, right? We're a platform that provides people with really high quality, free, and
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