Runway co-CEO's origin story: taught himself coding at 10, now $200M ARR
Scobleizer · x · 2026-11-05
A profile anecdote about Anastasis Germanidis, co-founder and co-CEO of Runway: at age 10 or 11 he talked his older sister's professor in Greece into teaching him to code — his early obsession with computers started with wanting to make his own video games.
The AI video company he runs now generates $200M in annual recurring revenue.
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