About this episode From the show’s notes 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.
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Chapters 17 · press a time to start there 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 Show all 17 chapters 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 
