Amjad Masad

8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 15, 2024 by Amjad Masad · across every show →

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Feb 15, 2024
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Masad: Replit submitted a Rickroll video for its Y Combinator application
“So I put in the Rickroll video. Rick Astey is never going to give you up. And till this day, if you go to the YC portal and you click on Repplin and you click the video where it should be the founder interview, you'll get Rickrolled.”
Amjad Masad Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 19:57 The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
Feb 15, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Masad: JS REPL was first to run Python and Ruby in browser
“I got a prototype running and we're the first to put Python and Ruby and a few other languages in the browser. And I open sourced it.”
Amjad Masad Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 6:07 The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
Feb 15, 2024
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Masad: Replit was rejected by Y Combinator three times
“I applied to YC three times and never got in.”
Amjad Masad Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 18:00 The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
Feb 15, 2024 positive
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Masad: AI will bifurcate developers into 'creators' and 'engineers'
“I think that there's going to be a bifurcation of software engineer and software creator. Engineers are not going away. We need engineers in the same way that Instagram did not obviate the need for professional, you know, journalists and photographers and all …”
Amjad Masad Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 36:34 The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
Feb 15, 2024
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Masad: Codecademy paid him $15/hr to add Python support
“They contracted me to use the core engine to add Python to Codecademy. And I did that back in Jordan as a contractor. I was getting paid 15 dollars an hour, which was a lot of money for me at the time.”
Amjad Masad Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 8:10 The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
Feb 15, 2024 bearish
Disclosure
Amjad Masad: I am skeptical of startup master plans as an angel investor
“Which now as an angel investor, I'm always skeptical of these master plans.”
Amjad Masad Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 21:56 The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
Feb 15, 2024
Disclosure
Masad: Replit's seed pitch deck outlined a three-step AI coding plan
“In the first deck that were presented for the seed, random replet, I actually talk about the prospects of AI coming to coding. And so it's like step one, we're going to create this cloud development environment. We're going to make it collaborative. We're goin…”
Amjad Masad Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 12:38 The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
Feb 15, 2024 positive
Opinion
Masad: Roblox is the most successful software creator economy
“I think the most successful software creator economy is Roblox.”
Amjad Masad Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 30:51 The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
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