Replit

“We had some of a breakthrough in June, 22, where we were the first to put an open source model in production. It was the Salesforce CodeGen model.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When I think about web native software, there's a few concrete things. One is that URLs are very important. Figma is a web native collaborative software. You can share a URL with someone and they can hop into the same environment as you know, multiplier by def…”

“I applied to YC three times and never got in.”

“I think the first feature we launched in partnership with OpenAI was in twenty-twenty-one was explain code. And I think it was like one of the first coding applications of GPT that went into production.”

“ByteDance now is a customer of Replit. They use it for a platform that they built called Larkbase and LarkSuite.”

“We're kicking off a more of a sort of a teams enterprise plan, and we already have early customers there. And so I think that's where the majority of revenue over the next few years will come.”

“Glitch at the time got, their seed round was thirty million dollars, and they hired, you know, right off the bat, tens of people that got like 80 people who were like four or five at the time or something like that.”

“I think it's just a terrible business and it's unfortunate that it's a terrible business. You would want the free market to be building tools And software to make it so that kids all over the world are learning better and all of that. But for all sorts of stru…”

“I think towards the end of the year, we'll probably have some things to share about fully agentic software creation.”

“Bloomberg Beta and Roy Bahat, who I knew from my time at Codecademy, he was an investor there, ended up investing, I think it was like, 600 K on a six million valuation.”

“And we see people scale startups to hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue as indie hackers only on the core 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…”

“Now we've had, you know, hundreds of AI companies signing up and we just announced, you know, OpenAI, we announced Perplexity, we announced Replit.”