Amjad Masad
Co-founder & CEO, Replit. On 13 shows, 18 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, a browser-based collaborative coding platform. Previously, he was a founding engineer at Codecademy and led JavaScript infrastructure at Facebook.
13shows
18appearances
450statements
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34supported
4contradicted
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78said about them ↓ Everything Amjad Masad said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Masad: Laypersons will soon match senior Google software engineers via AI
“I think that the lay person will be as good as a what a senior software engineer that works at Google is today. So I think that's happening very soon.”
Masad: Being canceled is a choice because persistence outlasts public backlash
“Being canceled is a choice. You can choose to get canceled and retreat from the public eye, but I think if you're still out there, at some point, honestly, the haters kind of give up.”
Masad: Only software agents work; sales and marketing agents do not
“The only agents that work are software agents, marketing agents, sales agents, all that haven't really worked very well.”
Masad: Solo founders no longer need to learn traditional programming languages
“They don't need to learn how to code. They need to learn how to create. They need to learn how to build.”
Masad: AI coding models are approaching a performance plateau
“And we're, you know, we're approaching a certain plateau in how good coding models could get.”
Masad: Adopting Chinese AI models poses security risks, not moral issues
“I don't think there's a moral issue per se. Like, I don't think they're using slave labor or anything like that to do that. I would have a security issue, especially since we have enterprise customers that, that depend on us for sensitive data and things like …”
Masad: The US government should fund a national open-source AI consortium
“I would venture to say, like, maybe the US government should start a consortium of companies that are, like, creating the best open source, national open source model so that the market stays competitive.”
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…”
Masad: Most people wanting to build software should not learn to code
“Like, you know, I don't think you, most people who want to make things with software and computers don't need to learn how to code. It's going to be a huge cost on them. It's going to take a lot of time, but instead just jump into making things.”
Amjad Masad: Papers predicting AGI by 2027 are vibe-based hype, not science
“So my criticism of the idea of like AGI, 20, 27, you know, that paper that I think it's called Alexander or someone else wrote and then and the situational awareness and all this hype papers that are not really science. They're just vibe.”
Amjad Masad: Current large language models are not on the path to AGI
“I don't think LLMs as they can understand are on, on the way to AGI and my definition for AGI is I think the old school RL definition, which is a machine that can go into any environment and learn efficiently in the same way that a human could go into you can …”
Masad: Bearish on true AGI breakthroughs due to current AI profitability
“I, I'm kind of bearish on, on, on true AGI breakthrough because what we built is so useful and economically valuable.”
Masad: Traditional SaaS application software value will drop to near zero
“My prediction is that all application software will go to zero. In other words, software will be dirt cheap, that no one will be making money on the traditional type of SaaS software.”
Masad: Human domain expertise is becoming exponentially less important due to AI
“Obviously domain expertise is still important, But it's not as important as it used to be. It's exponentially less important.”
Anthropic Leads in Agentic Coding While OpenAI Lags Behind
“They've been able to make, create a lead that hasn't been bridged by the other labs. Gemini is getting there on the agentic stuff, but I would say OpenAI kind of lagged behind.”
xAI Is Compute-Inefficient and Brute-Forces Problems With Massive Compute
“XAI is an amazing team. And they, they've been able to achieve so much in so little time, but it's also well known in the industry that they're computer inefficient. They're so compute rich that, that they're throwing computer the other problem in many ways.”
Masad: Model makers undercutting on price will destroy the ecosystem
“If they're gonna compete by undercutting everyone on price, they're gonna destroy the ecosystem.”
The First AGI Lab Will Not Trigger a Runaway Intelligence Explosion
“Whomever reaches AGI first, they're not going to go into intelligence explosion and just like suddenly, you know, super intelligence gets born. People, you know, other labs will catch up really quickly. And then, you know, there's going to be a lot of models. …”
Masad: Hyperreal, addictive AI technologies are a huge danger to human civilization
“We have these technologies that are, and the market around it that, that is bootstrapped to make us addicted because they're so, so much more enticing and low effort than the reality that we know and experience day to day. And I think that, that is a huge dang…”
Masad: AI Replicas of $10K+ SaaS Tools Cost Literally $5
“You know, a lot of companies pay tens of thousands of dollars for software.
You can generate a replica for five dollars, literally.”
Masad: Meta's core social networks are dying assets facing AI disruption
“Meta has this asset that's spitting out a ton of cash. Which is Instagram, Facebook, their ads, kind of networks. But it's in a way a dying asset in many ways. It's a very competitive at some point it's going to get fully disrupted. AI is going in. It's alread…”
Masad: AI models remix existing data and cannot create new knowledge
“GPT, ChatGPT, Cod, all of them, are simply machines that are trained to regurgitate all the materials they've read online, right?
They're amazing machines, they can do programming, all that stuff, but they are a function of their data.
You know, like you say…”
Masad: Vertical niche SaaS tools will be easily AI-generated within a year
“So there's a lot of, I think, vertical, niche-specific SaaS tools that are generatable very easily, even with today's technology, let alone like a year from now, I think you'll be able to kind of generate them, especially on a platform like Replit, which gives…”
The other half of the tape: Amjad Masad's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 73 times in 44 episodes across the shows. 5 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Jason Lemkin 26Alex Kantrowitz 13Codie Sanchez 8Greg Isenberg 4Kyle Harrison 2Jason Calacanis 2Amelia Ibarra 2Scott Wu 1
Statements about Amjad Masad, by other people (5)
Sanchez: Peter Thiel rejected Replit, saying it would never be big
“I remember when I told Peter Thiel that he should invest in the company and Peter said, it's never going to be a big company. This vibe coding thing is sort of ridiculous. And he put it in an email”
Sanchez: Replit turned down a $1B valuation when pre-revenue
“He had turned down a billion dollars for Replit back when they had no cap, you know, they hadn't even made any revenue yet, because he had been grinding for 11 years before they made really much of anything”
Greg Isenberg advises choosing AI coding tools by betting on specific founders
“My recommendation to people is actually to follow all the founders of these businesses. So, V-Zero, Guillermo. Kodak, Sam Altman. Lovable, Anton. Bolt is Eric Simons. Replit, Amjad, et cetera. Follow them, and then see who you believe in. Like, if you really c…”
Ranjan Roy: Software coding is the most automatable part of building companies
“I'm gonna go more true on that one. I really think, again, that's my whole thing, that it's not about coding, that the coding, coding is the most AI-able part of this entire thing, so yes. I'm gonna say a little bit true.”
Every mention by year
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the Official SaaStr Podcast 20
20VC 16
Big Technology 13
BigDeal 8
TBPN 7
the Startup Ideas Podcast 4
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 2
the MAD Podcast 12 more shows
2026 35 mentions in 18 episodes 2 per episode
- $4 Trillion in IPOs, $100B in M&A, and Why B2B Spend is Booming
- Billionaire Founder: No One Tells You This About Starting A Company | Ankur Jain
- Why Your Next Hire Should Report to an AI, Tragedy Apps, and Too Many AI SDRs? | The Agents #004
- Who Owns Your Data Now? Agents vs. Systems of Record on The Agents #013
- Agents Didn't Kill Sales. They Just Exposed It with SaaStrAI CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- Our Agent Negotiated a Vendor Renewal, Became a CFO and a Better SDR .. but has too many guardrails
- 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
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 31 mentions in 20 episodes 2 per episode
- Why Playing Small Is Keeping You Broke
- OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
- Why the German Economy is COLLAPSING?
- The Best Vibe Coding Tools in 2026
- Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Anthropic’s Potential, AI Video Gets Crazy, Market Bubble Approaching?
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism
- Grok's AI Lovebot, Aqui-Hire-Sition Backlash, OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent Debuts
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 5 mentions in 4 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
- How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas | Startup School · Y Combinator
- Ruchi Sanghvi: My Job Interview with Mark Zuckerberg; Deep Dive on DAOs | 20VC #895 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
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