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Levels: Personal wealth generally reflects total value added to society
“Getting rich is simply a representation of your added value to the world economy. In most cases, of course, as edge cases generally, The money on your bank account is how much value added to society.”
Levels tells Collison: Stripe's API grew overly complicated after COVID
“I think it wasn't going well after COVID. There was a few years where things were getting, the API was getting more and more complicated. We all complained about it. There was every, it felt like it was being run by engineers, not by people who actually use St…”
Levels: Indie hackers cannot currently become billionaires
“I don't think you can become a billionaire. Maybe we will see that in the future, but.”
Levels: VC funding forces founders into a go-big-or-bust model
“But the problem is if you're a founder and you raise money, you kind of need to go big or bust, right? That's kind of, it's hard to stay in between. You can't like make ten million dollars a year. You kind of need to make a hundred million dollars a year. You …”
Pieter Levels: ChatGPT referral traffic jumped from 4% to 20% of Google volume in a month
“ChatGPT a month ago was so if you have to Google traffic, that's like a hundred. ChatGPG was like four, so four percent, and now it's 20%.”
Levels: Keeps Legacy Projects Running to Preserve Internet History
“No, so I try to keep a lot of them running. I like to keep the internet history existing.”
Pieter Levels: Prolonged nomadism fundamentally strips away your foundational home culture
“You lose contact with the grounds of your own culture, your home country, and it's, everything's fine. People are nice, but you're like it's, it fundamentally removes your foundational culture. At some point it starts.”
Pieter Levels uses GPT API to moderate Nomad List's 40,000-member community chat
“With GPT, it's actually neutral, like, it really, it's really good, right, I write down the rules of my chat group, and it's 40,000 people and it's, it doesn't ban anymore, it just mutes people for, like, a day or 10 minutes”
Levels: Startup founders have limited time to earn and must invest gains
“If you make money, like as INIAC or even as a VC founder, like, it's very important to not spend all this money, because you're, you have a limited time in startups to make money, I think, like, and put this money in the market”
Levels: Has Launched More Than 70 Web Projects
“Yeah, probably more, you know, because I know what this is, but it's like, it's my pin tweet.”
Levels: Tens of thousands submitted ideas to EU/acc bug board
“Tens of thousands of people submitted ideas and then they upload each other's ideas and stuff.”