Special: Acquired x Indie Hackers

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Venturecapital, Ma, Investing, Acquisitions, Startups, Vc, Investment, Business, Technology

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

As regular listeners know, we typically cover some of the biggest companies who often receive the most media attention (see Airbnb and DoorDash). But today's episode is a little different. In our conversation with Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers, the largest community of startup founders, we dive into the stories of underdogs. What happens when there are millions of people doing small business entrepreneurship? How does anyone having access to the globally addressable market of 3 billion internet users open the door for the niche-est of products? We tell the story of Courtland’s own “Indie Hacker” journey, how he came to found Indie Hackers itself, and the lessons learned along the way.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I've got new M1 MacBook Air.
0:02.6	This is the first episode we're doing on it.
0:04.8	Nice.
0:05.4	Nice silent recording in the background.
0:07.4	No, what do they call it on the pro?
0:11.1	The Active cooling system. Don't call it on the pro? The active cooling system.
0:12.8	Don't call it a fan. Welcome to this special episode of Acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and playbooks behind them.
0:33.6	I'm Ben Gilbert and I'm the co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio and venture
0:38.3	capital firm in Seattle.
0:40.1	And I'm David Rosenthal and I am an angel investor and advisor to startups based in San Francisco.
0:46.9	And we are your hosts.
0:49.3	As regular listeners know, we typically cover some of the biggest companies, those that IPO, see
0:54.8	Airbnb and DoorDash last week, and the companies that get some of the splashiest
0:59.2	press coverage. But today's episode is quite a bit different.
1:03.0	In our conversation with Cortland Allen of Indie Hackers,
1:06.0	which is the largest community of startup founders,
1:09.0	we dive into the stories of the Underdogs.
1:12.0	What happens when there are millions of people doing
1:14.4	small business entrepreneurship? How does the globally addressable market of 3 billion internet
1:19.6	users open the door for the nichest of products.
1:23.0	And importantly, what was Cortland's lived experience
1:26.0	of starting his own string of companies
	...

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