Eric Simons

Eric Simons is the creator of Bolt.New, the viral website and app builder that empowers anyone to build a website or app just through conversational prompting. The product launched in October 2024 with the viral tweet asking, "what do you want to build?" In just six months, the company scaled from 0 to $40m ARR, and has over 8 million users worldwide. Eric is also the CEO and Co-founder of StackBlitz, the makers of the WebContainers technology, which allows developers to run an IDE natively from the browser instead of in the cloud.