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Bolt and StackBlitz
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- 0:00They were weeks from shutting the
- 0:01company down. Five months later, they
- 0:03were making [music] $40 million a year.
- 0:06StackBlitz started in 2017. Eric Simons
- 0:09and Albert Pai spent seven years
- 0:11building technology that runs code
- 0:13inside a web browser. By 2024, revenue
- 0:16was $80,000 a year and the money was
- 0:19running out. [music] So, they tried one
- 0:20last thing. Type what you want and AI
- 0:23builds the whole app right in the
- 0:25browser. They called [music] it Bolt. On
- 0:27October 3rd, Eric posted one tweet. Day
- 0:30one, $60,000 a year.
- 0:32>> [music]
- 0:32>> Day two, 80,000. As much as seven years
- 0:35of StackBlitz in two days. Two months
- 0:38in, 20 million.
- 0:39>> [music]
- 0:40>> Five months, 40 million with fewer than
- 0:4220 people. Seven years to build the
- 0:45engine.
- 0:45>> [music]
- 0:46>> One tweet to start it.
- 0:48>> Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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