The Power of Brand Building and Automation in Business

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