Pieter Levels Won't Sell Startup Nomadlist Because the Acquiring Company Will Shut it Down

Name: Pieter Levels Won't Sell Startup Nomadlist Because the Acquiring Company Will Shut it Down
Uploaded: 2022-09-01T16:00:12+00:00
Duration: 22 s
Channel: Sam Parr
Description: In this brief monologue, Pieter Levels (Speaker A) explains why he will not sell his startup Nomad List. He describes Nomad List as his "baby" and a…

1 Sept 2022 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, Pieter Levels (Speaker A) explains why he will not sell his startup Nomad List. He describes Nomad List as his "baby" and a lifelong work of love that has fostered a cultural movement with tens of thousands of users and personal friends. Levels fears that a large remote‑startup acquirer would mishandle or shut down the platform, eroding the community he values. He contrasts this with Remote OK, a job board he cares less about, emphasizing that Nomad List’s cultural significance makes it impossible to sell without risking its destruction.

Nomad List is like my baby. So if I sell it, they're gonna fuck it up. I already know. Let's say a big remote startup buys it and they're gonna shut this shit down. This is my life's work. It's like legacy. Remote OK, I care less because it's a job board. Job board is not very interesting. But Nomad List is like this whole movement and culture and there's like tens of thousands of people on there and my friends are on there and it's like this work of love, you know? It would be hard to sell that because people are gonna fuck it up.