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Pieter Levels

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“It feels good because you're doing like you win because when you do, what is I do 60 kilos, so it's like 120 pounds or something like it's my only thing I can do well in the gym. And you said like this, and you're like, I did it, you know, like a winner pose, yeah, a victory pose. I do bench press squads, deadlifts.”
2024-08-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We do wear like shorts a lot, and I usually wear shorts and no t shirts because I'm always too hot, like I'm always overheating.”
2024-08-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's like it's very rapid, and it's like if I compare it to, for example, Google, you know, like our big tech companies, especially Google right now is kind of struggling, like they made transformers. They made all they invented all the AI stuff years ago and they never really shipped. Like they could have shipped chat GPT, for example. I think I heard in 2019 and they never shipped it because they were so stuck in bureaucracy, but they They had the data, they had the tech, they had the engineers, and they didn't do it. And it's because these big organizations, it can make you very slow. So being alone by myself on my laptop, like, you know, in my underwear in a hotel room or something, I can ship very fast and I don't need to like ask legal for like, oh, can you vouch for this? I can just go and ship.”
2024-08-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My philosophy is very different than most people in startups because most people in startups build a company and they raise money, right? And they hire people and then they build a product and they find something that makes money. And I don't really raise money. I don't use VC funding. I do everything myself. I'm a designer. I'm the developer. I make everything. I make the logo. So for me, I'm much more scrappy. And because I don't have funding, I need to go fast. I need to make things fast to see even ID works, right? I have an idea in my mind and I build it, build it like a mini startup. And I launched it very quickly, like within, you know, two weeks or something of building it. And I check if there's demand. If people actually sign up and not just sign up, but if people actually pay money, right? Like they need to take out their credit cards, pay me money. And then I can see if the idea is validated. And most ideas don't work. Like, as you say, most feel.”
2024-08-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source