Indie Hackers

Katelyn Gleason (@katgleason) has been never satisfied with working for somebody else, and she's never been afraid to break into a new field and aim straight for the top. Today, she's the founder and CEO of Eligible, a rapidly-growing business in the difficult and highly-regulated healthcare and insurance industries. Learn how she used the knowledge she gained as a salesperson to develop a category-defining product, and how she goes about learning whatever is necessary for overcoming the next obstacle in her path.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/050-katelyn-gleason-of-eligible

Josh Kaufman, author of The Personal MBA, discusses his background in business and the process of writing his book. They explore topics such as online promotion, marketing at Procter & Gamble, collecting and synthesizing information in business, aligning scientific developments and customer feedback, the lack of clear definitions in business books, and treating writing as a business.

David Smooke (@DavidSmooke) has been working with content since he got a job as a teenager at the local newspaper. In this episode we discuss the progression of his career from employee to contractor to the owner of multiple online publications, and we learn how he bootstrapped Hacker Noon and the @ami network to over 600k subscribers and 10M monthly pageviews.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/048-david-smooke-of-hacker-noon

Joel Runyon (@joelrunyon) didn't start out with a whole lot. He couldn't get a job. He had no business skills. He didn't know how to code. In fact, all he had was long list of things he thought he couldn't do. In this episode, Joel talks about how he was able to pull himself up by the bootstraps and create multiple successful businesses by doing the things he was most interested in, being persistent and doubling down on the things that stuck, and literally attempting to accomplish the impossible.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/047-joel-runyon-of-impossible

Austen Allred (@austenallred) was in debt after watching his company implode. Learn how he used his entrepreneurial experience to turn things around, and then went on to create Lambda School — a successful business that changes people's lives for the better. He dives into the details behind how to align your business' success with your customers' happiness, how to decide whether or not to raise money, the future of education, and the lessons he's learned from Charlie Munger and Jeff Bezos.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/046-austen-allred-of-lambda-school

Isn't having a vision just fluff? Doesn't every business need to start with the practical realities first? Max Lytvyn doesn't think so. In this episode he tells the story behind how he and his cofounder started with nothing but a vision, and used that to bootstrap Grammarly into a massively profitable business with hundreds of employees.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/045-max-lytvyn-of-grammarly

Stephanie Hurlburt (@sehurlburt) shares the story of how she went from being an employee to being half of a 2-person startup that sells software to gaming companies, and all the steps in between. Learn how she quit her job, met her cofounder, landed lucrative contracting gigs, built a product, learned about sales, and stayed sane while doing it.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/044-stephanie-hurlburt-of-binomial

Starting an online business is scary. You're putting yourself out there and risking failure in front of thousands or even millions of people. Learn how Pieter Levels has not only faced his fears, but used them as motivation while building an empire of profitable businesses that cater to digital nomads.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/043-pieter-levels-of-nomad-listNomad List — Pieter's community and resources for digital nomads@levelsio — follow Pieter on Twitter

There's some stiff competition in the email marketing space, but that didn't stop brothers Gareth and Jonathan Bull. Learn how they overcame some significant business and interpersonal challenges to build EmailOctopus into a profitable, bootstrapped business.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/042-gareth-and-jonathan-bull-of-emailoctopus

Even as a programmer, Vincent Woo never loved school or working at big companies. But he was enthusiastic in growing his side project, CoderPad, into a $2M business. Get his take on startups, luck, and why advice is bullshit.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/041-vincent-woo-of-coderpad