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Pieter Levels

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2088 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And now it's like the number one or number two biggest remote job boards. And it's also fully automated and people just post a job and people apply. It has like profiles as well. Like it's kind of like LinkedIn for remote work.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Yeah, it's essentially like a simple job board. I discovered job boards are way more complicated than you think, but yeah, it's a job board for remote jobs. But the nice thing is you can charge a lot of money for job posts. Man, it's good money.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Yeah, it's essentially like a simple job board. I discovered job boards are way more complicated than you think, but yeah, it's a job board for remote jobs. But the nice thing is you can charge a lot of money for job posts. Man, it's good money.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Yeah, it's essentially like a simple job board. I discovered job boards are way more complicated than you think, but yeah, it's a job board for remote jobs. But the nice thing is you can charge a lot of money for job posts. Man, it's good money.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

B2B, you can charge like, you start with 299, but at the peak during when the Fed started printing money, like 2021, I was making like 140K a month with remote okay, with just job posts. And I started like adding crazy upsells, like rainbow-colored job posts. You can add your background name. It's just upsells, man. And you charge $1,000 for an upsell. It was crazy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

B2B, you can charge like, you start with 299, but at the peak during when the Fed started printing money, like 2021, I was making like 140K a month with remote okay, with just job posts. And I started like adding crazy upsells, like rainbow-colored job posts. You can add your background name. It's just upsells, man. And you charge $1,000 for an upsell. It was crazy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

B2B, you can charge like, you start with 299, but at the peak during when the Fed started printing money, like 2021, I was making like 140K a month with remote okay, with just job posts. And I started like adding crazy upsells, like rainbow-colored job posts. You can add your background name. It's just upsells, man. And you charge $1,000 for an upsell. It was crazy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And all these companies just upsell, upsell. Yeah, we want everything. Job posts would cost $3,000, $4,000. And I was like, this is good business. And then the feds stopped printing money and it all went down and it went down to like 10K a month from 140. Now it's back, I think it's like 40. It was good times, you know?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And all these companies just upsell, upsell. Yeah, we want everything. Job posts would cost $3,000, $4,000. And I was like, this is good business. And then the feds stopped printing money and it all went down and it went down to like 10K a month from 140. Now it's back, I think it's like 40. It was good times, you know?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

And all these companies just upsell, upsell. Yeah, we want everything. Job posts would cost $3,000, $4,000. And I was like, this is good business. And then the feds stopped printing money and it all went down and it went down to like 10K a month from 140. Now it's back, I think it's like 40. It was good times, you know?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

10 years ago was like this trend in the blog. Back then blogs were so popular. It was like a blogosphere and it was like a hundred things challenge. What is that? A hundred things? I mean, it's ridiculous, but like you, you write down every object you have in your house and you count it, you make like a spreadsheet and you're like, okay, I have 500 things. You need to get it down to a hundred. Why?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

10 years ago was like this trend in the blog. Back then blogs were so popular. It was like a blogosphere and it was like a hundred things challenge. What is that? A hundred things? I mean, it's ridiculous, but like you, you write down every object you have in your house and you count it, you make like a spreadsheet and you're like, okay, I have 500 things. You need to get it down to a hundred. Why?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

10 years ago was like this trend in the blog. Back then blogs were so popular. It was like a blogosphere and it was like a hundred things challenge. What is that? A hundred things? I mean, it's ridiculous, but like you, you write down every object you have in your house and you count it, you make like a spreadsheet and you're like, okay, I have 500 things. You need to get it down to a hundred. Why?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

You know, this is just a trend. So I did it. I started like selling stuff, started throwing away stuff. And I did like MDMA and XTC, like 2012 kind of, and, uh,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

You know, this is just a trend. So I did it. I started like selling stuff, started throwing away stuff. And I did like MDMA and XTC, like 2012 kind of, and, uh,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

You know, this is just a trend. So I did it. I started like selling stuff, started throwing away stuff. And I did like MDMA and XTC, like 2012 kind of, and, uh,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

after that trip i felt so different and i felt like i had to start throwing shit away like i swear yeah and i started throwing shit away and i felt that was like it was almost like the drug sending me to a path of like you need to throw your shit away you need to start you know go on a journey you need to get out of here and um and that's what the mdma did i think yeah how hard is it to get down to 100 items

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

after that trip i felt so different and i felt like i had to start throwing shit away like i swear yeah and i started throwing shit away and i felt that was like it was almost like the drug sending me to a path of like you need to throw your shit away you need to start you know go on a journey you need to get out of here and um and that's what the mdma did i think yeah how hard is it to get down to 100 items

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

after that trip i felt so different and i felt like i had to start throwing shit away like i swear yeah and i started throwing shit away and i felt that was like it was almost like the drug sending me to a path of like you need to throw your shit away you need to start you know go on a journey you need to get out of here and um and that's what the mdma did i think yeah how hard is it to get down to 100 items

Lex Fridman Podcast
#440 โ€“ Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

Boy, you need to like sell your PC and stuff. You need to go on eBay. And then, man, going eBay selling all your stuff is very interesting because you discover society. Man, you meet the craziest people. You meet every range, from rich to poor. Everybody comes to your house to buy stuff. It's so funny, so interesting. I recommend everybody do this.