AI made a “no code” founder into a coder

Ben Tossell, Factory, AI, B2B, SaaS (software as a service)

Ben Tossell used to listen to Mixergy interviews as he hunted for a big idea to launch. Then he nailed it. MakerPad, an educational company for people who wanted to build using no code. It did so well that he sold it for life-changing money. Then he started coding. Because of AI. This is his story.

Ben Tossell

Ben Tossell

Factory

Ben Tossell is the founder of Makerpad, the no-code education platform he sold to Zapier. Today he’s the Head of Developer Relations at Factory, where he helps shape the AI coding agent used by developers worldwide. When he’s not working, he’s hanging with his twins.

 

Andrew Warner: This guy created the number one community for no Code Builders. Then he sold it to Zapier. What’s he doing now? Helping developers stop coding by using ai. I. Ben Tossell is the founder of Maker Padd, the Maker community that he sold to Zapier. He is now the head of developer relations at Factory, the agent native software development company.

Introl: ~Next new thing,

Andrew Warner: Ben, I gotta start with this question. Dude, you created Maker Padd. This is like the platform for teaching people how to code without coding. You sold the fricking thing too, Zapier, and now instead of going and creating another business using no code solutions, you took a job working a factory as head of developer relations.

What’s up with that?

Ben Tossell: It’s just hard. It’s really, I dunno whether it is the, the period of time after I sold that made it made everything else feel like the whole period was harder or...

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