Courtland Allen

Courtland Allen is the co-founder of Indie Hackers, a community and media platform where entrepreneurs share transparent revenue numbers and business strategies. He built the site in 2016, sold it to Stripe in 2017 — Stripe's first notable acquisition — and bought it back in 2023 on its exact 6th acquisition anniversary. A MIT CS grad who failed six startups before hitting on his seventh, Allen has become one of the internet's most trusted voices on bootstrapping and sustainable entrepreneurship.