What's up everybody?

This is Cortland from andyhackers.com and you're listening to the Indiehackers podcast.

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.

How do they get to where they are today?

How do they make decisions, whether their companies and in their personal lives, and what exactly makes their businesses tick? And the goal here, as always, is so that the rest of us can learn from their examples and go on to build our own profitable internet businesses. Today, I'm talking to Patrick Campbell. Patrick, welcome to the show. Yeah, happy to be here. Pumped to chat.

I know, like I said, before we had to reschedule this a couple of times.

So excited to hopefully share something that that's useful to folks.

Excited to have you on here.

You are the founder of Profitwell, which is a pretty amazing business.

You started back in 2012 and it has grown super rapidly since then. I want to walk through just a couple

of numbers to give listeners sort of an idea of what you're working on. What's your revenue like

today at Profitwell? Yeah, so we are past the 10 million mark essentially. It's a little bit

tough just because we're going so quickly. So it's one of those

things where giving you the pinpoint as of today, you know, we typically don't try to do that.

But we're, we're past that 10 million mark and, and heading, heading to the next 20 or 25 as we're

trying to go. You are past 10 million in revenue. You are a first-time founder, correct? Yep. First-time founder

haven't, unless you count like selling animal crackers when I was a kid in school, but that was a long time ago.

Okay, yeah, we won't count that. You are a first-time founder. You're also bootstrapped, I believe.

So you haven't raised any money from friends and family, angel investors, venture capitalists, or anything like that. No, we, well, I started the company by

my mid-20s. I cashed in my 401K, which wasn't very large because I was pretty young. But yeah,

completely bootstrapped and, you know, haven't raised any outside capital. But there's been a lot

of other costs besides not raising money.

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