Amjad Masad
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I hacked my university, changed my grades, and got away with it. Then the house phone rang at 7pm. It was the head of registration. Some context: I was getting A's, but I barely showed up to class because I was busy co…
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A 21-year-old Founder flew from New York to Jordan to recruit me. I said no every day. Then I signed in the car to the airport. In 2011, I open-sourced a project that let you run code in the browser. Built it from my b…
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In 2021, a big tech company offered to buy Replit for $1bn. We were six people, and broke. We had plenty of users but little revenue to show. It was a tough time both at the company and personally. My mother was fight…
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YC rejected me 4 times. So on my fifth application, I Rick Rolled them. From 2016, I applied to Y Combinator every batch. Rejected every time. Most times we didn't even get a call. Then in December 2017, I woke up to…
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I landed in America 14 years ago with nothing but credit card debt. Since then, I've had one startup exit, one big tech job and one unicorn. But also a family, a house, and a life I genuinely believe I couldn't have bu…
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One of the best parts of opening our London office last month was sitting down with the etn. team. They invited me into the studio, it ended up being an amazing conversation, and many clips went viral. Before we start…
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I landed in America 14 years ago with nothing but credit card debt. Since then, I've had one startup exit, one big tech job and one unicorn. But also a family, a house, and a life I genuinely believe I couldn't have bu…
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I was 12, addicted to Counter-Strike, and I'd just sold a LAN cafe owner software that didn't exist yet. I spent most of my days at that cafe in Jordan. The place was full of computers, but the business itself ran on p…
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"How did you become a billionaire?" I get asked this a lot. People expect the answer to be about intelligence or a technical insight nobody else had. It wasn't that. I know plenty of people smarter than me. PhDs. Engi…
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In 1993, my dad took out a loan to buy a computer. He was a government engineer in Jordan, and he didn't really have the money for it. If you'd asked him why it mattered, I don't think he could have told you. It was…
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Replit is coming to London 🇬🇧 To celebrate Replit’s first international office in London, together with our friends, OpenAI we're hosting a night of drinks, music, and a fireside chat with Paul Graham (founder of Y Co…
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I hacked my university, changed my grades, and got away with it. Then the house phone rang at 7pm. It was the head of registration. Some context: I was getting A's, but I barely showed up to class because I was busy co…
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In 2021, a big tech company offered to buy Replit for $1bn. We were six people, and broke. We had plenty of users but little revenue to show. It was a tough time both at the company and personally. My mother was fight…
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In 2017, I got a Twitter DM from Sam Altman. At the time, Replit was three people. I was on call around the clock, trying to keep the site up while growth outpaced anything we could support. We'd been rejected by YC fo…
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Our partnership with OpenAI is long overdue. Before Replit was in YC, Paul Graham asked Sam Altman to recruit us. Here’s Sam telling the story of how we first met:
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A 21-year-old Founder flew from New York to Jordan to recruit me. I said no every day. Then I signed in the car to the airport. In 2011, I open-sourced a project that let you run code in the browser. Built it from my b…
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In 2021, I couldn't convince a single AI lab that coding mattered. I went around the valley with the same pitch. Train a coding model with us. Replit had millions of users and more coding data than almost anyone. Open…
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In 2015 I put a line in our seed deck describing a product we had no idea how to build. The line was about blurring the distinction between learning and building. Meaning you shouldn't have to learn to code before you…
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I thought I hated sales culture. By the end of this year, more than half my company will be salespeople. For most of the last decade I was a typical tech guy. Build a good product, put it on the internet, let it spea…
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