Maor Shlomo
Founder & CEO, Base44. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Maor Shlomo is a software entrepreneur who founded Base44, an AI app builder acquired by Wix. Prior to Base44, he co-founded the data analytics platform Explorium and served as its Chief Technology Officer.
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Shlomo: Vibe coding will become software's largest category, swallowing traditional SaaS
“I felt like in my eyes, this is going to be the largest category in, in software industry. Cause a lot of like existing categories that we're familiar with. And CRM and support systems and task management and project management and stuff like that are going to…”
Shlomo: Building custom CRMs via AI will soon beat buying Salesforce licenses
“And there would be a time, it might be in a few months, might be in a few years, where it will be easier to build your own Salesforce type of CRM than to actually buy a license to something off the shelf.”
Shlomo: SaaS companies requiring implementers will not survive the decade
“I think every software company that needs implementers, right, there's like a Salesforce implementer or whatever maybe in a decade from now is not going to make it.”
Shlomo: AI software building is not a winner-take-all market
“Software building as a category is gonna grow insanely fast. I think our notion from the previous age of venture capital where a winner takes it all is wrong. And I think this category is going to be so big that everybody will take a niche at some point.”
Shlomo: Anthropic has better models and growth trajectory than OpenAI
“Moving faster. They correct something in coding. They're very focused on delivering value to B to B customers of, they don't have the first mover advantage, but I think they have better models. And when they look at their trajectory they're better positioned f…”
Shlomo: MVPs are dead because AI ruined user attention spans
“There are some things that I don't believe in is like MVPs first and foremost is like, if you're building something that people will not be able to use or is not good enough, especially these days where it's
It's so much easier to build software, so the attent…”
Shlomo: Use plain JavaScript and JSX instead of TypeScript with LLMs
“There's one controversial take for me working with LLMs is don't use TypeScript. Use plain JavaScript. Use JSX. It's easier for models to write code this way.”
Shlomo: AI enables tiny teams to create immense value with fewer people
“If one person team can get sold for eighty million dollars without people, it means that you'll be able to do a lot more stuff with less people.”
Shlomo: Joining Wix tripled Base44's odds of success over VC funding
“It was either I raise a lot of money and a lot of funding, or I go and join Wix that basically triples my chances at actually building something special.”
Shlomo: AI will eliminate moatless CRM companies, but Salesforce can adapt
“Smaller CRM companies, every software that's basically front end on top of a database with some team features and some integrations and does not have a moat. And I think Salesforce is so big and so massive that this is like, this is one of their moats. Like th…”
Shlomo: AI tools building simple front-ends and landing pages will commoditize
“I think early on, the vibe coding category was focused a lot and still is, to some degree, on Like front-end and landing pages where many use cases were on, like websites or e-commerce websites and stuff like that. I think this will get commoditized for the ca…”
Shlomo: Platforms building full SaaS apps will resist AI commoditization
“But for the functional stuff and the complex applications, the organizational applications, the personal applications, the full fully fledged SaaS platforms that people are building, I think they won't get commoditized.”
Shlomo: Base44 is not worried about rivals Lovable, Replit, or Bolt
“I'm not worried about those three.”
Shlomo: Google is most likely to win the LLM race
“Google. By far. They have the compute. They're moving very fast. If Gemini at some point wins the race, like literally wins the race then they have the entire stack. Including like Google Cloud and whatever, whatever they need and they have the data and whatev…”
Shlomo: AI foundation model prices will drop toward zero
“We're taking into consideration that the prices of model will go down towards zero.”
Shlomo: Margins for AI coding platforms will improve drastically
“I don't think current margins are bad, but I think they're going to get way better.”
Shlomo: AI apps can fix low margins by training proprietary models post-distribution
“Kerser came out, I think it was two weeks ago, or maybe a few weeks ago with their own model, right? Composer. And this is like an, a nice way to like think about strategy of those types of businesses. So think about Kelsa, right? I don't know how the margins …”
Shlomo: Passed on AI agent startups like Manus over commoditization fears
“I had the opportunity to invest in like this agent companies, right? Like the Manus, the, those folks. I don't like, I felt like, I don't know the industry good enough to understand if at some point this would get commoditized by the model companies. And so th…”
Shlomo: The AI industry will not hit a progress speed bump
“Me personally, I don't believe we'll hit a speed bump. I think even with existing models, I don't think also we'll hit like a wall with like the improvements of LLMs, but I think even with existing models, we're only scratching the surface of economic value th…”
Shlomo: 95% to 100% of code will be AI-written in two years
“95%. Or a hundred percent, for sure. It's like, ah, you'll be prompting agents.”
Shlomo: AI model market will not be winner-take-all
“It's like, either it's not going to be one winner takes it all. And there's going to be like more and more companies getting into this market. It's going to be like the Chinese players that are now like changing the entire market dynamics.”
Shlomo: Developers will stick with Claude Code over superior models
“Like, even if now Gemini three comes out and it's a better model than Cloud and so on, then still there's gonna be a huge number of people staying with CloudCode because they're used to it and they built some things up the stack.”
Shlomo: LLMs will turn 10x engineers into 100x engineers, beating VC funding
“As LLMs get better, it's like people like 10 X engineers would have way more impact. They were going to be a hundred X engineers because they're able to manage LLMs. And it's not necessarily the team size, no, the funding, ah, that, that would be able to win y…”
Shlomo: Claude excels at UI while Gemini is better for complex algorithms
“Claude for example, does a really nice job with first the initial prompt, like writing the app from scratch. Then everything that has to do with UI is just fantastic. Like design is great. But then for example, Gemini is really good when you get to a very comp…”
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