#184 – $60k in a Week, Plus Ideas for Building the Future of Work with Dan Pierson

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

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Dan Pierson's (@DanPierson) first entrepreneurial experience was a walk in the park — he was making $10k/week as a 23-year-old college grad, thinking life was easy. But when his business came to a halt, it set Dan on a 5 year walk through the "entrepreneurial desert" to find a business that could work. In this episode, Dan and I talk persisting through hardship, new ideas for indie hackers to help shape the future of work, and how he made $60k in a week by selling services before products.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? This is Cortland from NDHackers.com and you're listening to the
0:11.6	IndieHackers podcast. More people than ever are building cool stuff online and earning their
0:16.8	financial freedom in the process. And on this show, we dissect the latest trends, ideas, and strategies these indie hackers
0:23.1	are using to get ahead so the rest of us can do the same.
0:25.7	If you've been listening to the show and enjoying it, do me a favor and leave a quick rating
0:29.5	for us on Apple Podcasts.
0:31.8	Today, I sat down to talk to Dan Pearson of Unsettled.
0:35.7	Dan is an expert in what he calls the future of work, which is really a new
0:40.1	opportunity for ND hackers all over to build better tools and applications and software for
0:45.9	companies who are changing the way they work. It's pretty obvious with the global pandemic this
0:49.7	year that a lot of companies have been forced to work remotely. They've been forced to work in
0:53.9	these hybrid environments. And so in this episode, we get into not only Dan's story, but also just a
0:59.0	frank discussion about the coolest ideas and opportunities that we see for indie hackers in this
1:03.1	space. Dan, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, Cortland. Excited to be here. Yeah, I reached out
1:09.8	to you in response to a tweet you made back in October. You said $58,000 in sales so far this week for a product that didn't exist one month ago. B2B is wild, not sure why I ever bothered with you lowly consumers. And you never actually shared what it was that you were building that made so much money so fast. So tell us what you're working on.
1:28.2	Yeah, totally. So I mean, that 60K was two big deals, right? It was $30,000 in sales to a very
1:35.7	large technology company in Seattle. And it was helping them call it like kind of elevated team
1:41.2	building, like bringing in industry leaders and people who have different
1:44.4	interesting things to say. It was connection sessions helping the members of this organization
1:48.9	break down silos and have like intimate connection and then different workshops that we ran
1:54.3	to help them like find that personal and professional growth. It's very, very much tailored
1:58.6	to this organization, like extremely custom.
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