@stripe: Serial entrepreneur and digital nomad Pieter Levels on why he hasn’t been tempted to raise venture capital. Subscribe to Cheeky Pint on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.
one of my favourite tech products of the last ten years, Arc, is in this hole at the moment. they're VC funded and have made an elite tool for power users, one I'd happily pay for, but they're scrapping it because it can't become mainstream and deliver on investor pressure. now they're all in on a very half-baked AI product that won't hold its own against Google or OpenAI
2025-07-12 08:52:21
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UNIVERSITY :
And here I am . Trying to get funding.. I don’t have the capacity to fund the whole startup that I’m working on.
2025-07-14 10:04:32
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Dibwa Kabengele :
What is he talking about?
2025-07-14 08:47:32
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AR 🇪🇺 :
THIS !!!! Give me 100% of a small number any day !!!! Bootstrapped businesses for the win … VC / Silicon Valley has warped things
2025-07-12 06:05:03
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Elizaveta :
He's great
2025-08-12 04:05:14
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Athan Slotkin :
1000% agree
2025-07-12 02:59:06
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Sean's AI Stories :
LevelsIO is so wise
2025-07-17 10:35:59
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George Jefferson :
the goat
2025-07-12 23:24:29
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Sanc :
The goat
2025-07-25 05:36:51
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Remote School :
The goat
2025-09-03 03:18:45
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threebod :
some vc should invest in him as a brand. project-level is too small.
2025-07-12 04:57:25
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leanretasabio :
Agree
2026-03-04 14:56:54
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Daniel Talero :
Pieter rocks 🤘
2025-07-20 21:41:19
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Crowd King 👑 :
🥰🥰🥰
2025-08-28 16:54:49
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Wilde Vintage Dublin :
👏👏👏
2025-07-11 17:13:31
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Alexandra ✨ :
Insightful. I’m still very happy to seedstrap
2025-07-13 19:57:57
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Sausage Meows :
It's so hard as an idea person and technical implementor knowing any idea that scales needs VC funding and will end up being enshittified. Probably encouraged to use AI these days too even if AI might be the thing that will kill your idea 2 years down the line.
2025-07-12 12:53:35
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