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Scaling often forces founders into unwanted management roles
Levels avoids raising funding because he dislikes the stressful life it brings. He notes that many heavily funded founders secretly regret becoming managers instead of doing creative groundwork, feeling trapped in CEO roles they don't enjoy.
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Pieter Levels on Bootstrapping Startups, AI Image Models, and Indie Development
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I have a lot of founder friends and they tell me secretly, with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and stuff, and they tell me, “Next time, if I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it like you, because it’s more fun, it’s more indie, it’s more chill, it’s more creative.”
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