IndieHackers

Stripe emailed to buy IndieHackers before the founder ever pitched them

Courtland Allen had Stripe at the top of his dream-sponsor list for IndieHackers and was building up sales skills to one day pitch them. Before he got there, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison emailed asking to buy the company outright, which beat landing them as a sponsor.

“before I got to that point, Patrick, the CEO, emailed me and was like, hey, can we buy IndieHackers? So I was like, yeah, of course. It's much better than getting a sponsor.”