Base44

“The share of startups built by a single founder has not edged up gradually, it has risen from 23.7% in 2019 to 36.3% by the first half of 2025. That kind of movement rarely happens without a deeper structural driver.”

“Headcount still carries weight in how opportunities are assessed, even though it is becoming a weaker proxy for output. Revenue per employee is emerging as a more relevant indicator. A company generating $3 million in annual revenue with two people is often treated as an edge case rather than what it actually represents: a highly efficient system.”

“Maor Shlomo built Base44 alone and sold it to Wix for $80 million within six months.”

“Base44's move to train its own model signals a broader industry shift... Base1 was developed and trained on a dataset generated from 'tens of millions of real user interactions on the platform.'”

“"Training and owning the model as part of [our] entire stack allows us a lot more optimizations on latency, cost, and efficiency." — Maor Shlomo, Base44 founder”

“AI-native website/app building platform; acquired by Wix. Growing to approximately $100-150 million ARR”