Maor Shlomo: belief

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…Okay. There's another couple levers I've read about and then I'm going to move on to a different topic. One is this hackathon you mentioned that helped you grow and become more aware. The other is you did a bunch of partnerships, which is really rare for a company of your size. So just talk about those and what that did to the business. At one point, one of the things I really liked about building Base44 is that I saw people building apps that were really incredibly positive and doing really good in the world. I think something really interesting right now in vibe coding in general is once you actually scale software, you can also scale the impact the software does. So you can have nonprofits build themselves tools, you can have people that build apps for education and neglected domains that didn't really have budget because there was no business [inaudible 01:04:18]. And once you opened this up and make it super cheap to create software, then it's becoming. And this was early on. We were at the 5,000- ish, 10,000-ish users. And so I said, "Okay, well you know what? Let's do a hackathon where we open up for everybody to build apps that do good in the world." I had no budget back then, so I was like, "Okay, this is going to be a 5K hackathon. The price is going to be 5K." And it was your own money you were going to give away?.…

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