Opening
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): The rate you're growing is absurd. You're in this cohort of companies that are just growing at rates that we've never seen in the history of startups. Eric Simons (00:00:05): The company was on the verge of going under when we launched Bolt, and what ended up happening is, in the first two months it went from zero to 20 million of ARR. And we've already crossed 30 million of ARR, with the current rate we're on, our forecast for the year is we want to get to 100 million of ARR....
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Low-ego framing
Simons is the founder and CEO of StackBlitz, the company behind Bolt—the #1 web-based AI coding agent and one of the fastest-growing products in history. After nearly shutting down, StackBlitz...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Superhuman. Check it out at lennysnewsletter.com. Eric Simons (00:04:52): Thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm stoked to be here. Lenny Rachitsky (00:04:54): For folks that are not super familiar...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Low-ego framing
I tell them?" And then it hit me. Those things are so complicated to use. I don't know if you've ever seen just the UI of these things, but they're crazy complicated, and that's just for building a static...
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
's a DM on Twitter, or an email. Lenny Rachitsky (01:28:18): Amazing. Eric, thank you so much for being here. Eric Simons (01:28:21): Awesome. Thank you so much for having me. This is a blast....
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Ending
website, over on Twitter, I'm @ericsimons40 on Twitter, and I think our Twitter account is @boltdotnew, not with a period. It's like, B-O-L-T-D-O-T-N-E-W. And yeah, I'm curious to hear what folks think. I mean, this is, again, we are learning so much from the people that are coming and trying this thing out and giving their feedback. And within the first meeting of it going online, we were not the experts on how use the tool anymore, and it's been that way ever since....
The ending reorients from guest intimacy to listener usefulness.