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Ras Mike: AI will create multi-million-dollar startups without technical founders

Ross Mike · How to use AI to build your SaaS startup (Lovable, Supabase) · Dec 6, 2024 · at 25:06

Ras Mike and Greg Isenberg discuss how low-code AI tooling lowers barriers to founding high-revenue tech startups.

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“It just, it, we truly enter, like, the birth of, like, non-technical multi-million dollar founders with no tech founder, with no CTO or anything like that.”

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