David Holz on website development
From Midjourney Office Hours | Stream September 27, 2023 · · Midjourney Recap
“I think we're approaching The Phase One release of our web stuff so that'll involve like a new website that has better search, nicer designs, better light box we call it so you can look through the images really quickly. It looks pretty nice, it's pretty fast and it's kind of a totally new code base. So the goal of this website is to eventually allow you to make images on the website too and have social features on the website but before we release the social and the creation things on the website we want to just get the Bare Bones version out there, make sure it doesn't crash.”
On , David Holz, CEO & Founder at Midjourney, spoke about website development during Midjourney Office Hours | Stream September 27, 2023 on Midjourney Recap.
About David Holz
David Holz, founder and CEO of Midjourney, participated in a conversation with Maya Ajmera at the 2026 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. He discussed the company's financial model, stating that Midjourney is one of the larger revenue AI companies but has no investors. He said he spent his own money until he was negative $1,000, which he described as motivating for making money. Holz also shared his views on addressing problems through innovation rather than conservation. He said he believes in investing in fusion, space solar, or even blocking 1% of sunlight with satellites to control the Earth's temperature. Regarding AI's risks, he said the most dangerous thing is if humans build powerful AI and in the process believe less in their own beauty and power. He contrasted humans with economic agents, stating that humans want to be something different from a perfect economic agent, and that he is biased toward humans.