Ben Sherry
Award-winning business technology journalist and Staff Reporter at Inc. Magazine. I lead Inc.'s coverage of artificial intelligence. My story "Claude is My Cofounder," the first magazine cover story to profile an AI model, was published in Winter 2025. My video series "Build-a-Biz" received a Webby Award Honor and a Telly Award. Previously published in the Financial Times and Investopedia. I graduated from Emerson College in 2017.
Features
Selected Work
Replit CEO Says Its New AI Agent Can Vibe Code a Startup From Scratch
Inside Replit's next move, featuring an interview with founder and CEO Amjad Masad on Agent 4, a $400M Series D, and why the future of software development looks less like coding and more like sketching on a whiteboard.
Meet the Founder Whose OpenAI-Powered Startup Just Hit $100 Million in ARR
How Clay became one of OpenAI's biggest API customers, featuring an interview with CEO Kareem Amin on growing from $1M to $100M in ARR in two years.
How Base44 Found a Buyer 4 Months After Launching
The story of one of the fastest startup exits in recent memory, featuring an interview with Base44 founder Maor Shlomo on building to $1.5M in revenue in a month, turning down every VC in Israel, and selling to Wix for $80M.
How OpenAI Ships New Products With Lightning Speed
An exclusive look inside Codex, OpenAI's agentic coding tool, with access to the engineers building the company's biggest products. Codex wrote 85 percent of the Sora Android app in under three weeks.
Why Google Gemini Is Emerging as a Hot New AI Tool for Startups
A look at how and why Google Gemini is quietly winning over startups, featuring an interview with Darren Mowry, head of Google Cloud's Global startup team.
Media
Build a Biz
An original Inc. video series that's part Shark Tank, part Whose Line Is It Anyway. Real founders are given a randomly generated business idea and just five minutes to brainstorm before pitching it on camera. Hilarity (and awards) ensued.
Cheddar TV
A segment detailing the rise of reverse acqui-hires, following Google's licensing deal with Windsurf and Cognition's acquisition of the product.