The founder, who has mystified doctors by running on only about two hours of rest per night, built multiple companies, including messaging service onebox.com, which was acquired by phone.com for $850 million in 2000, and Lala, a music-streaming site bought by Apple for a reported $80 million in 2009.
Over the last few years, as AI coding tools improved, Nguyen realized that anyone with a Claude Code account could’ve built “every single company I created in a weekend.”
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