Serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels on building in public and living as a digital nomad

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.Timestamps00:00 Intro00:37 Pieter’s resume01:33 Trying to make money online as a 12 year old02:43 Being one of the first YouTube creators03:18 Who should indie hack04:31 What Pieter hates about VC-backed businesses07:51 Who is digital nomading for?09:15 Learning from @patio1110:17 125k tweets and the brand of @levelsio10:59 Getting referrals from ChatGPT11:43 What Pieter automates with AI13:02 Investing and home country bias15:05 Hacking thermostats15:57 EU acceleration movement18:34 Entrepreneurship in the EU19:26 Pieter's reflections on Stripe’s API21:21 Looking 5 years into the future