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One startup hit $100M ARR in 8 months, the fastest in history.
Then Meta paid $2 billion for them.
They didn't build models. They didn't raise billions. They built on TOP of Claude and OpenAI, perfecting the "shell" while everyone else raced to build bigger brains.
And they won.
This is Manus. And their playbook breaks every rule in the SaaS book.
While OpenAI raised $6.6B to build intelligence, Manus spent $0 on models and sold for $2B, proving the value is moving up the stack.
So what did three Chinese engineers know that the smartest AI labs in the world missed?