The story
Four MIT students at Anysphere first looked at AI for mechanical engineering, then turned to coding. They forked VS Code, built AI into the whole editor, and reached $100M in annual revenue in about a year, among the fastest ever.
No. 049 · 2022 · San Francisco
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Four MIT kids forked an editor. Then coding got weird.
$100M in about a year
Make my startup a legend- 1 2022. First idea: AI for mechanical CAD.
- 2 Nobody's asking for it.
- 3 Coding, though, is about to change.
- 4 They fork VS Code.
- 5 Tab, tab, tab.
- 6 Devs stop typing.
- 7 $0 to $100M in about a year.
- 8 Nobody knows how to hire anymore.
- Founders
- Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger
- Founded
- 2022, San Francisco
- What they do
- An AI code editor.