Forbes January 21, 2026
Last year, Wix acquired Base44, a solo-owned vibe-coded startup, for $80 million. That was something unheard of before the AI revolution began in late 2022. For most of the modern tech era, building a company meant assembling people before you had revenue. You hired engineers, a product lead, maybe a marketer, then raised money to keep everyone moving in the same direction long enough for the product to find a market. It was an often expensive and slow path, but at least it was predictable.
That’s changing today. Software that used to require teams of specialists can now be built by AI systems that work in parallel, handling research, design, engineering and deployment simultaneously. For founders, this means the traditional...
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