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Indie Hackers

#230 – Grit, Timing, and Building Businesses You Love with Andrew Gazdecki of MicroAcquire

Indie Hackers

Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

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

4.9 β€’ 606 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Gazdeki (@agazdecki) has some contrarian viewpoints when it comes to the startup ecosystem today. I invited him here to find out about his beef with TechCrunch and how he is empowering founders with his own company, Microacquire.

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? This is Cortland from AndyHackers.com and you're listening to the

0:12.7

NDHackers podcast. More people than ever are building cool stuff online and making a lot of money

0:17.4

in the process. And on this show, I sit down with these indie hackers to discuss the ideas, the opportunities,

0:22.3

and the strategies they're taking advantage of,

0:24.5

so the rest of us can do the same.

0:31.0

All right, I'm here with Andrew Gadsdecki,

0:33.2

the founder of Microquire.

0:34.9

How's it going, Andrew?

0:36.3

Turn well, Corlin.

0:37.2

Nice to finally connect with you. Yeah, big fan of everything you've done.

0:41.5

Before we start recording, I said this guy's influenced millions of entrepreneurs. That's badass.

0:46.3

So I'm sad to be here, man. Yeah, glad to have you here as well. You're doing quite a few things.

0:51.9

You've got Microacquire, which is, I think, one of the

0:55.4

best ways to basically sell your bootstrapped startup or buy a bootstrap startup. You've got

1:00.5

business apps, another startup that you founded, and exited in 2018. I think you sold it for

1:05.3

many tens of millions of dollars, if my guess is correct. I don't know if it's public.

1:12.5

That, I've never shared the exact number i said only my wife i promised my wife i wouldn't and the reason being is it's like

1:19.0

it's like a weird flex like it's either like not enough or like you're bragging you know So I always just kind of say I sold it and made it.

1:32.3

Well, my guess is you're being humble.

1:35.3

I don't know the number, but I like to bring people on the show and I guess flex for you and build you up.

1:40.3

You also have another project that I think is super interesting called bootstrappers.com.

1:45.6

And did you, did you buy bootstrappers from someone else? Did it exist before you had it?

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