Pieter Levels Quotes and Thoughts

Pieter Levels is an experienced bootstrapper. His clear views on VC and opportunitiy along with creative projects mark his work. Recently he started to integrate more AI into businesses in his work.

“Most things are a distraction, especially in the startup and tech world.”

—Pieter Levels

“Go Fucking Do It!”

—Pieter Levels

“This took a few months but I remember the first week of Nomad List launching I got an email from Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress.com, at least, and he said, "Can we sponsor the website?" I said sure, so he was sending me a few thousand dollars a month. Immediately that started making money as well, so now I had memberships, a basic sponsorship, so now I was at maybe $3,000/month and it was great.”

—Pieter Levels

“I didn't have a choice because I was a WordPress script kiddie, then Nomad List started taking off so I needed to learn to code while something was taking off. If I would have said, "Okay guys I'm going to take six months off to go to this React Javascript Core Bootcamp and then I'll rewrite the whole website." Come on, it would be gone, so I didn't have any choice. The constraints are important.”

—Pieter Levels

“But then the opposite happens on the internet, they're like, "You are a terrible person, I hate you!" and you meet in real life and they're like, "Sorry I said that but I had six coffees that day and I was a little outraged." but I can understand the hate. On the computer we're different.”

—Pieter Levels

“Talk is cheap and ineffective while creating something is much more challenging and effective to make change in the world.”

—Pieter Levels