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20VC: Base44's Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS and Salesforce | Why it is BS that Vibe Coding Platforms Do Not Have Defensibility and Bad Margins | Why He Worries About Google, Not Replit and Lovable | Why Long Anthropic, Not OpenAI?
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Maor Shlomo is the Founder and CEO of Base44, the AI building platform that Maor built from idea to $80M acquisition by Wix, in just 8 months. Today the company serves millions of users and will hit $50M ARR by the end of the year. Before Base44, Maor was the Co-Founder and CTO of Explorium.
AGENDA:
– : How Vibe Coding is Going to Kill Salesforce and SaaS
– : Do Vibe Coding platforms have any defensibility?
– : I am not worried about Replit and Lovable, I am worried about Google…
– : Margins do not matter, the price of the models will go to zero
– : Speed to copy has never been lower; has the technical moat been eroded?
– : How does Base44 beat Cursor?
– : Do not pay attention to competition: focus on your business
– : How Base44 is helped, not hurt by not being in Silicon Valley?
– : What percent of code will be written by AI in 12 months?
– : OpenAI or Anthropic: Why Maor is Long Anthropic?
– : If I could have any board member in the world it would be Jack Dorsey
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