#126 – Finding Success by Staying Optimistic with Ketan Anjaria of HireClub

Synopsis
Ketan Anjaria, founder of HireClub (a hiring and job-board community), recounts his dot-com-era setbacks and credits persistent optimism. He discusses the underrated value of community as a foundation and how HireClub grew 20% month-over-month to $30,000 MRR.
Ideas in this episode
- Hiring and job-board community platform
Indie Hackers frames HireClub as a bootstrapped community-plus-job-board founded by Ketan Anjaria that reached $30k MRR at roughly 20% MoM growth on the strength of persistent optimism and community-first design.