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Lex Fridman · 2024-08-20

Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440

Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #440

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Stripe

Stripe

“easiest way to just like pay for stuff stripe 100%”
“I'm not sponsored by stripe but add a stripe checkout button is that still like the the easiest way to just like pay for stuff stripe 100%”— guest
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Replicate

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“it's very cool company ... they're very very good”
“now I use them for everything and we trained like I think now like 36,000 models ... it's very cool company”— guest
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ChatGPT (GPT-4)

OpenAI

“I use gp4 now it's amazing ... it's so accurate”
“I use gp4 now it's amazing so I have like user input I have reviews ... it's man it's so on point”— guest
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Sublime Text

Sublime HQ

“I love Sublime Text”
“I love Sublime Text because I could use like multic cursor you know you search something and I could like make Mass replaces in a file”— guest
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MacBook (16-inch)

Apple

“all my great things started when I switched to Mac”
“all my great things started when I switched to MEC ... all the business started working out ... I started making money it all started when I switched to Mech”— guest
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Logitech MX Master Mouse

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“the perfect ergonomic Mouse”
“I used to have the Logitech MX Mouse the perfect economic Mouse doing like this little with thing one screen”— guest
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Dropbox

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“by the way I love Dropbox”
“let me leave you with some words from Drew Houston Dropbox co-founder by the way I love Dropbox”— Lex Fridman
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The Antisocial Network

Netflix (inferred)

“that was really fascinating”
“this new documentary on Netflix antisocial Network or something like that that was really was fascinating just fortun just the spirit of the thing”— guest

The guest's own work

BookBy the guest

MAKE: The Bootstrapper's Handbook

Pieter Levels

“back to startups you wrote a book on how to do this thing and gave a great talk on it how to do startups the book's called make bootstrappers handbook”— Lex Fridman

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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Werner Herzog

“I just rewatched uh Happy People year in the tiger that Warner Herzog film where they document people that are doing trapping”— Lex Fridman
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Apple Vision Pro

Apple

“it's really cool like apple Vision Pro is very cool doesn't really solve something for me yet and that's kind of the the tech looking for a solution”— guest
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Perplexity

Perplexity AI

“actually I'm curious let me ask perplexity how do I make a website I'm just curious what it would say”— guest
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Mapbox

Mapbox

“I switched to mapbox and then had mapbox for years and then it went viral and I had a bill of $20,000”— guest
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Trello

Trello (inferred)

“is there actually exist a notebook where you wrote ... no I used back then I used Trello Trello yeah but now I don't really”— guest
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Telegram

Telegram

“now I use telegram I write down like saved messages and I have like idea I write down ... message to yourself thing”— guest
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UptimeRobot

UptimeRobot

“then I have um uptime robot.com which is like for uptime but it can also check keywords it checks for an emoji”— guest
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New Relic

New Relic

“this is the same stuff people they pay like very big size companies like New Relic for right like to manage the stuff”— guest
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Hario V60

Hario (inferred)

“I make coffee like drip coffee like the V60 you know the filter and I boil water and I put the coffee in”— guest
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Canon 5D

Canon

“we would make music videos with like a Canon 5D camera back then everybody's making films and music”— guest
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Alone

History (inferred)

“there's the the show alone yeah they really test you cuz they you only get 10 items and you have to survive out in the wilderness”— Lex Fridman
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Minecraft

Mojang (inferred)

“you basically have to in order to build a shelter you have to cut the trees and make and like learning Minecraft you know everything I learn about life I learn Minecraft”— Lex Fridman