A founder argues bootstrapped companies can still win if they move fast and have a differentiated angle. He predicts LLMs will boost engineer productivity 10 to 100 times over, making individual talent matter more than funding or team size.
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If you weren't going to be acquired by Wix, do you think you had a chance staying bootstrapped, competing against the more popular products today? If you have an interesting angle and you're able to move fast, I feel like money and funding is not necessarily the factor to win a category. And that's going to change even more drastically in the future as LLMs get better. It's like people, like 10x engineers would have way more impact. They're going to be 100x engineers because they're able to manage LLMs. And it's not necessarily the team size nor the funding that will be able to win you a category.