Masad: Replit submitted a Rickroll video for its Y Combinator application
Amjad Masad · The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO) · Feb 15, 2024 · at 19:57
Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO of Replit, explains how he submitted Rick Astley's music video instead of a founder video during their final YC application.
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“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.”
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