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Why Did Stripe Buy Indie Hackers?

Every new business that takes place online and does well is a potential user for Stripe. If Indie Hackers do well at growing the business community, Stripe will do better.


Who Is Jonathan Sposato?

Jonathan Sposato is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and CEO. Currently a chairman of GeekWire and Pic Monkey. Jonathan is the first person to ever sell two companies to Google.


How Are Arbitrary Deadlines Harmful?

They are harmful because they betray trust between you and your team. You have to be honest about why the deadline matters and why you care in order to build stronger trust. If you have the choice between a decision and time, choose time.


Why Doesn’t The United States Require Bcg Vaccination?

We don’t have high enough rates of tuberculosis to justify the vaccination. The BCG vaccine is for tuberculosis that is good at preventing disseminated, full body tuberculosis, in infants. For some reason, it’s not great for adults by preventing them from getting tuberculosis.


When Does Belinda Finally Speak?

At first, she appears as passive since she does a lot smiling, nodding, and blinking. She doesn’t first say her first sentence until after all her clothes are removed, and after they have examined her physical appearance.


What Is The Importance Of Raising A Child With Resilience ?

Doing so produces grit which gives them the drive and persistence to pursue their dreams and goals in the long-term.


How Does Having Kids Help As You Build A Business?

Diess stated that his first kid was a surprise to them, and this was when he first wanted to go all in with his company. Having kids became a key motivator for Diess to start up his business.


How Did Submittable Founders Pay For Their Business In The Early Days?

Submittable started around 2009 and for two years, before getting into Y Combinator, most of the founders had kept their day jobs while working on Submittable nights and weekend. Even though they already had customers and revenue, it was not yet enough to pay for the team.


What Is The Future Of Jobs?

School is becoming a lot less important, and people are now figuring out how to live a lifestyle, rather than how to get a job.

For example, younger generation is being way more creative. Everyone has a camera, everyone can make a movie, everyone can make a song...etc. People who never even knew they could be creative are being creative, and they are making money from it.


What Are Jeff's Top Product Lessons?

Jeff talks about the importance of choose a category that is important enough to consumers they will pay for it. He also talks about the importance of having a role within a company that is close to revenue so you have a scoreboard to track.


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