Amjad Masad

The world was built by people that are not much smarter than you.

Your job is to find the way of doing things that's most aligned where the world is headed.

I think it's easy to start to get rich in the history of capitalism, but certainly in the history of internet.

You can cast almost any problem in life as a coding problem.

And I thought, okay, I'm going to hack into a school and change my grades.

It depends on my context.

I would look around for problems to solve.

So no matter where you are in life, you're in college, you're at work, there are people dealing with problems all around you.

One of my very recent startups that came out of Replit is a finance guy.

And he was on a plane and next to him was sitting an investment banker just spending a lot of time building spreadsheets and building decks for clients.

And he had an idea to automate a big part of that.

And he told him, you know, I have an app for you.

And he didn't have an app.

Can I come pitch it to you tomorrow?

He said, yeah, I mean, if you can solve this problem, if you can make it faster for us to get to our clients.

He went home and he's been using Replit just personally, just for fun, websites, things like that.

He spent the night working on the app.

Next day, went and pitched it.

Left there with half a million dollars of letter of intent.

And did this a few more times with other bankers.