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| urbandw311er wrote:
| What exactly does indiehackers do?
| ChanningAllen wrote:
| Teach and inspire people to become entrepreneurs on their own
| terms, e.g. without raising venture capital. Media company
| (podcast, newsletter) with a large online and in-person
| community.
| theery wrote:
| Wow! That's crazy. I wonder exactly how that went down.
| culi wrote:
| How what went down? If you mean Strip not owning it anymore, I
| think the post explains pretty much everything. They're on good
| terms and Strip is simply supporting rather than owning IH now
| adam_arthur wrote:
| Doesn't explain it at all, really.
|
| Presumably Stripe owned it before, now they don't... or own
| some smaller portion (since it's stated they're an investor)
|
| Likely either founders bought back a portion of the company,
| or Stripe relinquished ownership out of goodwill. Perhaps it
| was worth very little, I'm not familiar with it
| tchock23 wrote:
| Happy for Courtland. Should be a good move in the long term. Hope
| they keep the (excellent) podcast going.
| ingend88 wrote:
| Wow this is a big one! Congrats csallen@, what drove this change
| ?
| enumjorge wrote:
| If I had to hazard a guess this might be a cost-cutting measure
| on Stripe's part similar to cuts on content marketing that
| other companies have done. DigitalOcean divested from CSS
| Tricks [0], and there was an article earlier today about Amazon
| shutting down DPReviews [1]. Maybe the Stripe founders gave the
| IndieHackers folks a chance to spin it off again as opposed to
| shutting down.
|
| [0] https://geoffgraham.me/goodbye-css-tricks/
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35455797
| Bjorkbat wrote:
| Very exciting!
|
| On a side-note, I wonder if this decision relates to Stripe's
| ambitions to IPO soonish.
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