European AI startup that reached a $1.8B valuation just 8 months after launch.
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“If you look at coding agents... your mental model for two years ago should have been, would have been, I think it should be winner take all. And yet, Claude Code, Codex, Lovable, Replit, Wabi, like they're all sort of working.”
Source→“Something that's a $13.5 billion business at $600, $700 million of ARR. The trajectory of company growth is just unparalleled.”
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