Serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels on building in public and living as a digital nomad
Description
Pieter Levels joins John Collison to discuss building successful online businesses as a digital nomad, thoughts on European accelerationism, and Pieter’s unconventional methods and philosophy as a bootstrapped founder making over $3 million per year.
Full episode transcript
https://cheekypint.transistor.fm/4/transcript
Timestamps
(00:00 ) Intro
(00:37 ) Pieter’s resume
(01:33 ) Trying to make money online as a 12 year old
(02:43 ) Being one of the first YouTube creators
(03:18 ) Who should indie hack
(04:31 ) What Pieter hates about VC-backed businesses
(07:51 ) Who is digital nomading for?
(09:15 ) Learning from @patio11
(10:17 ) 125k tweets and the brand of @levelsio
(10:59 ) Getting referrals from ChatGPT
(11:43 ) What Pieter automates with AI
(13:02 ) Investing and home country bias
(15:05 ) Hacking thermostats
(15:57 ) EU acceleration movement
(18:34 ) Entrepreneurship in the EU
(19:26 ) Pieter's reflections on Stripe’s API
(21:21 ) Looking 5 years into the future
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