Amjad Masad

And the idea is that it was following from this Toyota,

way of building cars where they would, you know, cars used to be manufactured in like a heavy industrial way where they kind of know exactly what they're going to build and like they'll, you know, they have all the schematics and they'll like create the factory pipelines and it's very inflexible.

They can't react to demand.

They can't react to changes.

They can't react to like recalls or customer feedback, right?

And so Toyota kind of developed a way of like called lean manufacturing.

And so it was like borrowed from that as like, how can you de-risk startups and like make it more iterative?

Um, but we're at such a different place.

Like execution is no longer bottleneck.

If you have an idea, just like make the app and then go, go, uh, go figure out the demand because it's a lot easier than just like talking about it.

I grew up in Jordan, kind of lower middle class family.

We didn't have a lot of money.

I was lucky enough to get good education.

But also the hard thing about it is because I, you know, I was in a class with kids that had a lot more money than us.

And so I saw their PlayStations, their Air Jordans, their like all the cool stuff they had that it didn't have.

And that really fucking sucked.

And I was always motivated to like make money.

A lot of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs be like, oh, it's all about connecting the world or whatever.

Yes, I care about all of that stuff.

But my journey starts with, I love programming.