What Pieter Levels thinks about ideas vs execution
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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2 dated positions, 2024 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Pieter Levels has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingAI has equalised everyone: coding, building and execution are no longer a differentiator.
Their wordsSo AI has made everybody just as capable as everyone else, it equalized everyone in the world, as in everyone can make everything (software, music, images, art etc) now and everyone is equal, at least in the digital realm now
↗Superintelligence has passed us and we're all running after the carrotlevels.io
- 23 months earlier
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Our readingShipping the thing is what changes the law; staying scared of the legal framework changes nothing.
Their wordsSo, just by shipping it, you change society, you change the legal framework. By not shipping, being scared of the legal framework all the time, you’re not changing things.
↗Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440youtube.com 26th of 30 in this recording
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