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
