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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.

This episode is brought to you by Vanta — Join 9,000+ companies like Atlassian and Quora who use Vanta to manage risk and prove security in real time. Get $1000 off at vanta.com/peter

Timestamps:

(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

Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/building-a-billion-dollar-app-with-bolt-ai

Where to find Eric:

X: https://x.com/ericsimons40

Website: bolt.new

📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!

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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.

This episode is brought to you by Vanta — Join 9,000+ companies like Atlassian and Quora who use Vanta to manage risk and prove security in real time. Get $1000 off at vanta.com/peter

Timestamps:

(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

Get the takeaways: https://creatoreconomy.so/p/building-a-billion-dollar-app-with-bolt-ai

Where to find Eric:

X: https://x.com/ericsimons40

Website: bolt.new

📌 Subscribe to this channel – more interviews coming soon!

  continue reading

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