Serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels on building in public and living as a digital nomad
· 23 min · Episode 4
Episode Serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels on building in public and living as a digital nomad
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
Transcript
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