[NiagaraThistle]

"isn't pressed to make money"

It was never pressed to make money. Courtland said it many times on his podcast that Stripe never expected or gave him goals to earn revenue.

My guess as to why Stripe acquired IndieHackers is that COurtland promoted founding small companies to aspiring solopreneurs and those new companies would need to collect money and hopefully would use Stripe to do so. Encourage more and more people to found companies, and more and more new companies would use Stripe - free low-key sourcing of new customers without marketing or real revenue generation from IndieHackers.