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There’s also pressure from my team that I made the right choice for the employees of CMX who all came over with us, that they’re happy with the work they’re doing and with the direction of CMX. There’s definitely the pressure to want to make it successful, and to have Derek and the rest of the team feel really good and excited about the decision cause they’re taking a risk on us. Yeah, I think there is pressure from multiple angles.

It is a pleasure to have you both on there.ĭerek, if you just want to take a walk around the block, we’ll call you when we’re ready. David, Derek, welcome to the Indie Hackers podcast. He’s also the founder of CMX, which is a business he built after realizing the ironic fact that there are thousands of people like myself all over the world who are building and organizing communities, but none of them are actually talking to each other because they’re not part of a community themselves. Derek is the cofounder of Startup Grind, a global community of entrepreneurs meeting each other in person and at conferences, and today he runs a business called Bevy, which allows companies to host and run thousands of real-world community events, like he did with Startup Grind.ĭavid is the VP of Community at Derek’s company, Bevy. Today, I am sitting down with Derek Anderson and David Spinks. How did they get to where they are today? How do they make decisions both at their companies and in their personal lives, and what, exactly, makes their businesses tick? And the goal here, as always, is so that the rest of us can learn from their examples and go on to build our own successful online businesses. On this show, I talk to the founders of profitable internet businesses and I try to get a sense of what it’s like to be in their shoes.

What’s up everyone? This is Courtland from, and you are listening to the Indie Hackers podcast.