Jaeden
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Podcast Appearances
So it's fascinating, but just kicking this over to you, Jamie, give us like a brief recap and the most interesting parts of the story to you.
So I think he was just using Claude Code to build it.
And I will also preface all of this by saying, because it's like, oh my gosh, this random guy vibe coded a thing.
And then like, you know, four months later, it all of a sudden got acquired for, you know, some sort of billion dollar valuation.
He has actually started, run and sold a company in the past for, I think, close to, I think he ran a company for like,
If I remember correctly, it was something to do with like making PDFs work on your phone.
And he worked on it for like 10, 10, 14 years.
I sold it for like $100 million by the time he was done with it.
So he's done this all before.
Then he kind of, as I understand it, he kind of had like a lull, was kind of just somewhat depressed and wasn't really starting startups.
I mean, he also had a lot of money, so he was fine.
Also, if you look at pictures of him, he's absolutely ripped out of his mind.
So he obviously went to the gym a lot in that time since his last acquisition.
Apparently, a few months ago, he decided to start creating Claude bot because it was something he wanted to try and build.
He vibe coded using Claude code, he created this tool, and it went super, super viral on GitHub.
And I think part of the reason why it went viral is it was kind of a cool tool.
But
So because Anthropic sent him a cease and desist, because it used to be called Claudebot, that went viral that he got a cease and desist.
And so then he had to change the name.
He originally changed the name to Moltbot, which is the worst name in the world, in my opinion.