When I was 38, 39, when I really started to build AI products
I definitely wanted to build companies that could run themselves
It was almost impossible because the dream was so big
That I didn't see any chance because
I was living between Paris, LA and San Francisco; was working alone
And when I finally broke away from the idea of building products manually and used AI
I thought, "Well, now I may have a little bit of a chance"
Because all I really wanted to do was build products
And not only build them, but make them think for themselves
At that time, in San Francisco, in '24, '25, they already had AI
So, I would stay up all night, writing code with AI
Building apps in like 2 hours,
I think I built about seven, eight apps
I would partially sleep on the couch
Because I didn't want to stop building, and that kept me going for about
Almost two years in the beginning
I wanted to create a platform with the vibes of the 1990s, the vibes of the 2000s,
of the 2010s, and then have a feature of the future,
And I said, "Wait a second, I know the Agent SDK
Why don't I use the Agent SDK which is the feature of the future?"
And I didn't have any idea what to do,
But I knew I needed agents, so I put agents in loops and connected MCPs
Which then were synced to real products running in production
I knew that could be a feature of the future
But I didn't realize how much the impact would be
My name is Victor-Benjamin
But everybody calls me Ben
Once you free your mind about the concept of a company
and what it means to build a company "the right way"
You can do whatever you want
So nobody told me what to build
And there was no preconception of what to build