Amjad Masad
20 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 11, 2023 by Amjad Masad · said 16 times in 12 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2026 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- NVIDIA Predicts $1TRN in Revenue: Everything You Need to Know From GTC & Anduril Lands $20B Contract · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic Inference Costs Skyrocket |TikTok Deal Closes |The IPO Market:Wealthfront & EquipmentShare · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- Canva Slashes Growth | Talent Exodus at Google | Revolut's $50B CEO Package | Musk's $55B Terrafab
- Anthropic Buys Compute From Elon & Commits $200BN to Google | Cerebras IPO | Ramp Raises at $40BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- SpaceX's Financials Leaked: Is it Worth $2TN | Meta Debuts Muse Spark: Are They Back in the AI Race? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Kyle Harrison: Why 75% of Active Investors Will Disappear in the Next Few Years | 20VC #940 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Semil Shah: Lessons Learned Scaling from a $1M to a $50M Fund | 20VC #951 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Ruchi Sanghvi: My Job Interview with Mark Zuckerberg; Deep Dive on DAOs | 20VC #895 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Everything said about Amjad Masad, oldest first
Mar 11, 2023 negative
Masad: People taking conventional early paths rarely do exceptional things later
“I think it's fairly hard for people who has taken a normal straight path to life to do something exceptional later in life. I think there's always signs of exceptional things. Sometimes you'd have to dig for it, but I think it's always there, whether it's hust…”
Mar 11, 2023 bullish
Amjad Masad: AI will shrink knowledge and intelligence gaps globally
“I actually think that Chad GPT probably added multiple IQ points to a lot of people. So I actually think that AI is equalizer in terms of intelligence. And so you know, you have people who don't have access to the same education and now you can have an AI tuto…”
Mar 11, 2023 negative
Mar 11, 2023 bullish
Mar 11, 2023 negative
Masad: Modern cultural decadence has degraded values of hard work and exceptionalism
“Yes, and it is unfortunate, and I think it is the results of Some decadence in the culture. I think the, there's a feeling that life is, is about sort of pleasure and sort of hedonistic pursuits. Whereas I think sort of cultures of past, even, you know, 2020 c…”
Mar 11, 2023 negative
Mar 11, 2023 negative
Masad: Prioritizing loyalty to non-scaling early employees harms the collective organization
“I think it comes from this tribal way of living that is in our DNA, but in a sort of like free market enterprise, it becomes. It's somewhat deleterious and kind of really harms you. Because what you want to do is you want to sort of maximize the likelihood of …”
Mar 11, 2023
Masad: Replit's early engineering team was almost entirely non-CS misfits
“The early days of Replit, I was the only, like, computer science grad, like, up until, like, you know, 10, 10, 12 people, maybe. All the hackers of the company were, like, dropouts and English majors and poets and, like, all sorts of misfits that got into prog…”
Mar 11, 2023 bearish
Mar 11, 2023 neutral
Masad: 5-to-10-person companies valued in billions will become common
“So wealth inequality will grow insanely a lot. And how so? Because like people look at Instagram or WhatsApp as these outlier companies that were able to achieve massive valuations with like very little, with very little people. And I don't think it's going to…”
Mar 11, 2023
Masad: Process cannot compel employees without innate drive to work hard
“Honestly, that's not the way to do it. The way to do it is more of a selection thing. Like what we talked about hiring exceptional people. You want to hire exceptionally entrepreneurial people. Like there's no amount of processes you can put in to make someone…”
Apr 25, 2026 bullish
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Apr 25, 2026
Apr 25, 2026 neutral
Masad: Future engineers will focus on infrastructure while generalists build applications
“If I were to make a prediction, I would say that we'll still have engineers inside the organizations. Those engineers are responsible for more infrastructure, AI, ML embedded systems, you know, more, more, you know, low level engineering. And then you have pro…”
Apr 25, 2026 neutral
Apr 25, 2026 positive
Apr 25, 2026 bullish
Masad: Enterprise operations teams achieve higher ROI from Replit than product teams
“And when they use Replit, the return on investment is as good, if not greater than product teams. With product teams, you're cutting down product development lifecycle, which is hugely valuable. With operations teams, you're actually being more efficient. You'…”
Apr 25, 2026
Apr 25, 2026 bearish
Masad: Traditional IDEs have no future and are effectively dead
“I think for all intents and purposes, IDEs are dead. I think the, you know, the limp along because again, some engineers just love that, that control, but there's no future in them and that there's no one's going to be asking for like the latest feature of lik…”