How This Founder Went From Living In AOL's Offices To Running A Profitable AI Startup
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 1:03.0 | Hi, I am Catherine Schwab. I'm an assistant managing editor here at Forbes covering technology, |
| 1:08.5 | and I am stoked to be here today with Eric Simons. He is the |
| 1:12.9 | CEO and co-founder of StackBlitz, which is most known for its AI code generator bolts. You can |
| 1:21.4 | use it to type in a prompt and it will create any app or website that you want. Eric, thanks for |
| 1:27.4 | joining me. Yeah,, thanks for joining me. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah, thank you for having me. |
| 1:29.5 | I'm stoked to be here. |
| 1:30.9 | Let's start by hearing a little bit more about what Bolt is and how people use it. |
| 1:35.9 | Yeah, totally. |
| 1:36.8 | Yeah, so a Bolt is very simply. |
| 1:38.9 | It is a website that allows you to type in a prompt in just normal English, |
| 1:44.7 | and it'll actually build like full stack web applications entirely in your browser. |
| 1:49.0 | So this category is kind of like called text app or vibe coding. |
| 1:52.2 | And we are really the first vibe coding tool to hit the market back in October of 2024. |
| 1:58.5 | And today it's like Bolt has exploded in usage. We've got I think, you know, over |
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