Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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But Europe used to be entrepreneurial. Like there was companies founded in 1800, 1850, 1900. It flipped like around 1950 where America took the lead. And I guess my point is like, I hope that Europe gets back to... Because I'm European. I hope that Europe gets back to being an entrepreneurial culture where they build big companies again. Because right now the...
All the old dinosaur companies control the economies. They're lobbying with the government. Europe is also, they're infiltrated with the government where they create so much regulation. I think it's called regulatory capture, right? Where it's very hard for a newcomer to join and to enter an industry because there's too much regulation.
So actually regulation is very good for big companies because they can follow it. I can't follow it, right? If I want to start an AI startup in Europe now, I cannot because there's an AI regulation that makes it very complicated for me. I probably need to get notaries involved. I need to get certificates, licenses. Whereas in America, I can just open my laptop.
I can start an AI startup right now, mostly.
Man, you had Beth Jesus on. I love Beth Jesus and he's amazing. And I think IAC is very needed to similarly create a more positive outlook on the future. Because people have been very pessimistic about society, about the future of society, climate change, all this stuff. EOC is like, it's a positive outlook on the future. It's like technology can make us, you know, we spend more energy.
We should find ways to, of course, get like clean energy, but we need to spend more energy to make cooler stuff and, you know, go into space and build more technology that can improve society. And we shouldn't shy away from technology. Technology can be the answer for many things.
Yeah, it goes together. Look at China. China is now at the stage of like America, what, like 1900 or something? They're building rapidly, like insane. And obviously China has massive problems, but that comes with the whole thing. That comes with America in its beginning, all the massive problems, right? But...
I think it's very, very dangerous for a country or region like Europe to, you, you, you get to this point where you're kind of complacent, you're kind of comfortable. And then, you know, you can either go this or you can go this way, right? You're, you're from here, you go like this and then you can go this or this. I think you should go this way and, uh, yeah, go off. And, and, uh,
I think the problem is the mind culture. So EOC, I made EUOC, which is like the European kind of version. I made like hoodies and stuff. So a lot of people wear like this Make Europe Great Again hat. I made it red first, but it became too like Trump. So now it's more like European blue, you know, Make Europe Great Again.
Man, I would listen to, like, nobody. Just do what you think is good and follow your heart, right? Like, everybody peer-presses you into doing stuff you don't want to do. And, like, they tell you, like, parents or family or society and tell you. But, like, try your own thing, you know? Because it probably, it might work out. You can steer the ship, you know?
It probably doesn't work out immediately. You probably go into very bad times, like I did as well, relatively, right? Yeah. But in the end, if you're smart about it, you can make things work and you can create your own little life of things as you did, you know, as I did. And I think that should be more promoted, like do your own thing.
There's space in economy and in society for do your own thing, you know? It's like, you know, like little villages, everybody would sell, I would sell bread, you would sell meat. Everybody can do their own little thing. You don't need to, you know, be a normie, as you say, you can be what you really want to be, you know?
Yeah, you got to go all out. Because if you do, if you half-ass it, you cannot succeed. You need to go lean into the outcast stuff, lean into the being different and just doing whatever it is that you want to do, right?
Yeah, whole-ass it, yeah.
Thank you, man.
Thank you.
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