Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth — Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo

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Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Maor Shlomo is the founder of Base44, an AI-powered app builder that he bootstrapped to an over $80 million acquisition by Wix in just six months. As a solo founder (with severe ADHD), he hit $1 million ARR just three weeks after launch and grew the product to more than 400,000 users, all while navigating two wars in…

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