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The One-Second Bet That Put Index Inside Stripe
Fintech · Saas · Enterprise

The One-Second Bet That Put Index Inside Stripe

Index set out to make a grocery aisle behave like Amazon. The detour through slow chip cards, legacy cash registers and one very fast dip is the useful part of the story.

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Courtland Allen
Founder · Creator · Engineer

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.

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