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Bolt’s Eric Simons on Enabling Everyone to Generate Websites with AI

In this episode of No Priors, Sarah talks with Eric Simons, co-founder and CEO of StackBlitz. The company has experienced explosive growth since the launch 2 months ago of Bolt.new, an AI application that lets users prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack applications directly in the browser. Eric talks about the years-long journey that led to overnight success, why so many non-technical users are forming a community around Bolt, and the democratization of coding.

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Show Notes:
0:00 Introduction
0:36 Bolt.new
2:04 How Bolt stands out from other coding assistants
3:28 Building beyond ChatGPT wrappers
6:13 Driving growth through community
9:42 Evals
13:29 Eric’s favorite use cases and startups leveraging Bolt
17:10 Why engineers are embracing no- code tools
24:32 The years long journey of StackBlitz
31:50 Balancing an Ironman, a newborn, and a product launch
35:18 Predictions for developers and code generation tools

At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about the biggest questions: How far away is AGI? What markets are at risk for disruption? How will commerce, culture, and society change? What’s happening in state-of-the-art in research? “No Priors” is your guide to the AI revolution. Email feedback to show@no-priors.com.
Sarah Guo is a startup investor and the founder of Conviction, an investment firm purpose-built to serve intelligent software, or "Software 3.0" companies. She spent nearly a decade incubating and investing at venture firm Greylock Partners.
Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur and a startup investor. He was co-founder of Color Health, Mixer Labs (which was acquired by Twitter). He has invested in over 40 companies now worth $1B or more each, and is also author of the High Growth Handbook.