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

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​ ​ My guest today is Eric Simons.

Eric is the CEO of Bolt, the AI coding platform that has exploded from 0 to 3M users in less than a year.

Eric gave me a live demo of building a $2B mobile app from scratch with Bolt, how his “overnight” success was seven years in the making, and how real product teams use Bolt to get work done faster.

(00:00) From almost shutting down to $20M ARR in 2 months (01:20) Watch Bolt build Spotify with a single prompt (03:59) Live demo of building a$2B mobile app in 15 min (05:16) How to test your prototypes on mobile with Expo (10:03) Redesigning UX just by pasting in a screenshot (15:00) "Vibe coding" secrets straight from Eric (18:38) How Bolt will solve the AI debugging doom loop (24:34) The AI prototyping use case that most people aren't thinking about (27:21) The inside story of scaling Bolt from 0 to 3M users (41:10) Why AI products are like surfboards in a tsunami

Where to find Eric: Website: bolt.new