Vibe Coding for Founders: Build Faster, Spend Smarter

Anne Cocquyt is a startup operator, product builder, and UC Berkeley faculty member who has spent over a decade helping founders turn ideas into real, shipped products. She teaches product and entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley and has worked hands-on with hundreds of early-stage startups across the US and Europe.

Anne is a top 1% builder on Lovable, with multiple vibe-coded apps ranking in the top 1% on the platform. Her work sits at the intersection of product strategy, AI-powered building, and founder execution—combining speed, taste, and real-world constraints. She doesn’t teach theory in isolation; everything in this session comes from shipping, iterating, and stress-testing products with real users, clients, and investors.

She teaches vibe coding because she’s seen how traditional develop