Shlomo: LLMs will turn 10x engineers into 100x engineers, beating VC funding
Maor Shlomo · Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo · Jul 6, 2025 · at 33:50
Maor Shlomo discusses how solo founders using AI tools can compete against heavily funded tech competitors.
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“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 you a category.”
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