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The quickfire round opens with a genuine reversal: a year ago, Avishai was very worried about how quickly AI would replace humans. Now, having watched the goal posts on AGI shift without the hard problems being solved, he believes it will take far longer than he anticipated. [1] — Avishai Abrahami "I was very concerned, very concerned with how quickly we're going to find humans being replaced by AI. And I think I'm now looking at the s…" 50:44 The competitor question produces an unexpected answer — not a direct rival, but Figma. Avishai describes near-religious customer loyalty: his designers do their grocery lists in Figma. That level of product love, he says, takes extraordinary skill to create. His biggest concern is execution — having good plans and ideas means nothing if the team can't execute at scale with sufficient ambition. On the final prediction — will Wix or Monday have a higher market cap in 12 months — he sidesteps gracefully, calling it like asking which child he loves more, and credits both Eran and Rui as better CEOs than himself.
Avishai expects Base44 to grow from 400 to 800–1,000 employees in two years, mostly engineers.
