We Were Going to Shut Down Our Company…Now We’re Worth $700M | Eric Simons (Bolt)

Name: We Were Going to Shut Down Our Company…Now We’re Worth $700M | Eric Simons (Bolt)
Uploaded: 2025-02-23
Duration: 2903 s
Channel: Peter Yang
Description: Read a transcript preview of “We Were Going to Shut Down Our Company…Now We’re Worth $700M | Eric Simons (Bolt)” from Peter Yang, uploaded on 2025-02-23.

Channel: Peter Yang

Uploaded: 2025-02-23

Duration: PT2903S

Read a transcript preview of “We Were Going to Shut Down Our Company…Now We’re Worth $700M | Eric Simons (Bolt)” from Peter Yang, uploaded on 2025-02-23.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] so we were you know we were at the end

[0:01] of the year we were going to start

[0:02] figuring how to spin things down and so

[0:04] we had a handful of ideas and like I i'

[0:06] mentioned like we had tried the idea for

[0:07] bold and February last year and the

[0:09] models weren't good enough and so in may

[0:11] we got an early preview of Sonet we're

[0:13] like this whoa like this changes

[0:15] potentially everything this is really

[0:16] good and so July 1st we green L it and

[0:18] then in October we launched it and in

[0:21] the first two months alone we went from

[0:23] 0 to 20 million of brr in the first two

[0:25] months it's just kept growing since then

[0:27] and to buy know I mean it's like buy

[0:29] traffic Revenue whatever I mean this is

[0:31] like the number one web-based code Jen

[0:33] thing in the world and I mean in

[0:35] developer stuff I think it's second only

[0:36] to like cursor which is crazy cuz it's

[0:38] been out four months or something like

[0:40] the speed here is wild but yeah I mean

[0:43] we went from you know being ready to

[0:44] shut down the company you know to to you

[0:47] now something that's huge all right

[0:49] welcome everyone my guest today is Eric

[0:51] the CEO of boat uh boat is an AI coding

[0:54] platform that's exploded from uh 0 to 3

[0:57] million users and uh I'm excited to

[0:59] watch Eric demo building a mobile app

[1:02] from scratch with AI and also talk about

[1:04] how his overnight success was actually

[1:06] seven years into making so welcome Eric

[1:09] awesome yeah thank you for having me I'm

[1:10] stoked to be here yeah so shall we dig

[1:12] in should I start with just to Dive

[1:14] Right In show I demo this thing yeah

[1:16] let's do it man I mean you just