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