Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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The island. Yeah. You need a space to congregate. Man, and I found history on this. So 400 years ago in the coffee houses of Europe- Like the scientific revolution, the enlightenment happened because they would go to coffee houses, they would sit there, they would drink coffee and they would work.
They would work, they would write and they would do debates and they would organize marine routes, right? They would do all the stuff in coffee houses in Europe, in France, in Austria, in UK, in Holland. So we would always be going to, we were always going to cafes to work and to have serendipitous conversations with other people and start businesses and stuff.
And when I, like you asked me to come on here and we flew to America. And the first thing I realized was that I've been to America before, but we were in this cafe and like, there's a lot of laptops, everybody's working on something. And I made, I took this photo and, And then when you're in Europe, like large parts of Europe now, you cannot use a laptop anymore.
It's like no laptop, which I understand.
For a lot of people. A lot of people have very small homes and co-working spaces are kind of boring. They're not very private. They're not serendipitous. They're kind of boring. Cafes are amazing because random people can come in and ask you, what are you working on? And not just laptops, people are also having conversations like they did 400 years ago, debates or whatever. Things are happening.
And man, I understand the aesthetics of it. It's like, oh, startup bro shipping his bullshit startup, you know? Mm-hmm. But there's something more there. Like there's people actually making stuff, making new companies that the society benefits from. Like we're benefiting from Nvidia. I think the US GDP for sure is benefiting from Nvidia. European GDP could benefit if we build more companies.
And I feel in Europe, there's this vibe and this, you have to connect things, but not allowing laptops in cafes is kind of like part of the vibe, which is like, yeah, we're not really here to work. We're here to like enjoy life. I agree with this. Anthony Bourdain, like this tweet was quoted with Anthony Bourdain photo with him with cigarettes and a coffee in France.
And he said, this is what cafes are for. I agree.
Yeah, and it's awesome. Not everybody wins. 99% of people will be bullshit, but 1% will win. But they're working their ass off. Yeah, and they're doing something. And you need to pass this startup bro, like, oh, it's startup on a level. No, it's not. It's people making cool shit. And this will benefit you because this will create jobs for your country and your region. And I think in Europe...
That's a big problem. We have a very anti-entrepreneurial mindset.
That's very few.
It was for Twitter to mute, to share the mute list. Yeah. Mute words.
Airline list still runs, but it doesn't make money. Airline list like compares the safety of airlines because I was nervous to fly. So I was like, let's collect all the data on crashes for all the airplanes. Yeah.
Yeah, man.
You can go to the highlights tab. It has all the good shit.
This was Dubai.
And if people copy this photo now and they change the screenshot, it becomes like a meme. Of course, you know.
This is how Dubai looks. It's insane.
Yeah, the stories behind, for sure. So this is about the European economy where like...
Yeah, so the median founding of companies in US is something like 1960. And the median, the top companies, right? And the median in Europe is like 1900 or something. So it's, here, 1913 and 1963. So there's a 50-year difference.
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