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Serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels on building in public and living as a digital nomad
09 Jul 2025
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 transcripthttps://cheekypint.transistor.fm/4/transcriptTimestamps(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
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