#255 – The Drive to Make Money, Defining Life Principles, and Courtland Wins $10k from Vincent Woo of Coderpad

What's up, everybody? This is Cortland from ndhackers.com, and you're listening to the nd hackers podcast. More people than ever are building cool stuff online and making a lot of money in the process. And on this show, I sit down with these n d hackers to discuss the ideas, the opportunities, and the strategies they're taking advantage of so the rest of us can do the same. It's good to have you back on the pod, man. It's been a while. For folks who don't know you, you are Vincent Woo. You've been on the podcast a few times. Oh, wait. Are we recording? Yeah. We're recording, man. This is live. Welcome to the show. What's your background? You started a company called Coater Pad, which you sold for for tens of millions of dollars. Can we still not say the exact amount you said you sold it for? Is that Yeah. I don't Happy. I think I'm allowed to say when the current company is sold to a new buyer and then I negotiate to have the secrecy clause expire at that time. But this may never happen. So I have no idea. They just bought another company. So, like, I don't know. Like, they're going strong. Are you tracking this? Like, when you sell your company and you're no longer involved, like, how much are you just tracking what happens to your baby? Not at all. I have no idea what goes on. You just wash your hands. It's like you've given your baby up for adoption. Are you even interested? Oh, I'm very interested. They just don't like to talk to me anymore. I saw a photo from their all hands in Portugal and there's, like, 80 people. They bought this French company and then they, like, had an all hands, like, sort of in the middle in Portugal, not really. And there's, like, 80 people, and I know, like, one or two of them in the photo. And I was just, like, astounded. That's what they changed. Grew up or something. They changed it. Yeah. That's all adults now. You know? It's weird. Like, they have kids. If we if we sold indie hackers to an acquirer that wanted to take over that kicked us out, they said, alright. We're gonna take the wheel, I would be fascinated. And the changes to the forum, I'd be really interested to see what they did, so I can't imagine pulling back. Yeah. What what Stripe employee would be, like, next in line if, like, the two of you are like, oh, yeah. Literally no idea. No clue. Do you think sometimes that Stripe forgets that it owns indie hackers? Maybe Stripe as an organization does. Like, there are people within Stripe who are like, oh, yeah. We were doing this thing company wide and forgot about you guys. But I don't think, like, the people who matter, like, Patrick has not forgotten. He's Oh, do you, like, …