About

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.