1990s
Courtland Allen says his mother was an entrepreneur who sold computers in the 1990s.
“She was always doing her own kind of crazy hijink startup, selling computers and stuff in the nineties.”
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11 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2011
Courtland Allen's Y Combinator batch was winter 2011, and he applied in late 2010.
“This was like we had winter 2011 for YC. So this was like in the fall of 2010, like November, December. We were applying.”
2011
Courtland Allen's Gmail to-do product Task Force had about 100,000 users by the end of Y Combinator.
“By the end of YC, I think we had like 100,000 users.”
2011
After Stripe entered beta, Allen's team earned about $3,000 in a weekend charging $5 a month for its to-do list Chrome extension.
“I think we made like $3,000 in payments, charging people like five bucks a month for like this crappy to-do list Chrome extension”
2016
Courtland Allen launched Indie Hackers with about ten founders who had agreed to share their stories and revenue numbers.
“I'd gotten like 10 people to agree to share their entire story and their revenue numbers”
2016
Courtland Allen says Indie Hackers was covering all his bills within months of launch.
“i got to the point i think in february 2016 where like any hackers is going to pay all of my bills”
2017
Courtland Allen and Stripe negotiated a deal over about a month, and he joined Stripe in April 2017.
“over the course of a month like worked out kind of a deal and i joined stripe in april 2017”
2020
Courtland Allen says the Indie Hackers product directory had about 12,000 products when he recorded the episode.
“I checked the other day and it was like 12,000 products on there.”
Undated
Courtland Allen says his father died while he was in high school.
“my dad died when I was pretty young. I was in high school.”
Undated
Courtland Allen's first application to Y Combinator was a Facebook app called Fmail, a Gmail-style email app inside Facebook.
“the very first one was this company called Fmail, which stood for like get this Gmail for Facebook”
Undated
Courtland Allen says he has reported directly to Patrick Collison at Stripe and rarely meets with him.
“my working style at stripe is that i've reported to patrick since i got here we don't meet all that often”
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