# Dhruv Amin

> Dhruv Amin is the co-founder and co-CEO of Anything (formerly Create), a San Francisco AI app-building platform that turns plain English into working software, complete with databases, payments, and App Store submission. A Stanford computer scientist and former early YouTube product manager, he and co-founder Marcus Lowe shut down a profitable $2M-a-year freelance-developer marketplace in 2023 because they believed AI would make it obsolete, then rebuilt from scratch. The bet paid off: Anything hit a $2M annual revenue run rate within two weeks of its 2025 relaunch and raised an $11M Series A at a $100M valuation.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Anything (createanything.com)
- **Organizations:** Anything, Create, YouTube, Google, Cisco, Stanford University
- **Nationality:** American (Indian-origin)
- **Education:** BS, Computer Science, Stanford University, MS, Computer Science (School of Engineering), Stanford University, MBA, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Co-founder and co-CEO of Anything, valued at $100M after a $11M Series A in September 2025, Grew Anything to a $2M annual revenue run rate within two weeks of relaunch, Anything reached 550K+ users at the 1.0 launch and 700K+ registered users by the Series A

## Career timeline

- **2010** — Enrolled at Stanford University; later served as Senior Class President
- **2012** — Interned at Cisco while still in college
- **2014** — Joined Google as an Associate Product Manager, helping build the foundation of Google payments
- **2015** — Joined YouTube as an early product manager
- **2021** — Co-founded Create with Marcus Lowe, a marketplace connecting startups to freelance developers and AI coding tools
- **2023** — Shut down the profitable (~$2.2M run rate) Create marketplace in October, betting AI would make it obsolete; began building the AI app-building product
- **2025** — Relaunched as Anything in April; reached $2M ARR within two weeks and raised an $11M Series A at a $100M valuation

## Achievements

- Co-founder and co-CEO of Anything, valued at $100M after a $11M Series A in September 2025
- Grew Anything to a $2M annual revenue run rate within two weeks of relaunch
- Anything reached 550K+ users at the 1.0 launch and 700K+ registered users by the Series A
- Earlier built Create into a profitable business at roughly a $2.2M annual run rate, profitable from Day 1
- Early product manager at YouTube and Associate PM at Google, where he helped build Google payments foundations
- Senior Class President at Stanford University

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Launched Anything 1.0, reaching 3.2M views and 550K+ users around the launch
- **2025-09** — Raised an $11M Series A led by Footwork at a $100M valuation; total funding ~$19.5M
- **2025-12** — Featured by CNBC for shutting down a profitable startup and rebuilding into a company valued at $100M

## Links

- Website: https://createanything.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruvamin

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Last updated: 2026-06-12