Amjad Masad

And if you get a job at Google, you're set for life.

And, you know, in four or five years, you're pulling a couple million dollars.

And it's certainly threatening when that skill can be democratized and anyone can do it, anyone can build it.

It's also threatening to VCs and the way Silicon Valley works because Silicon Valley needed to build all this infrastructure in order to...

And raise all this capital in order to like fund, you know, companies need a lot of capital to build the software and market it and all of that.

But with social media, with tools like Replit, you don't need as much capital.

Right.

And so I think every piece of technology in history has had this decentralizing and democratizing effect.

Right.

And every time there's like a pushback from some group of people that are benefiting from the gatekeeping, but then the dam breaks and we live in a fundamentally new world, typically a much better world.

And I think it's true of media.

Like the democratization of media has been really good.

I think that I, you know, I get my news more from social media than I do.

And it has its challenges, obviously, but it's much better than getting propaganda.

AI is seen as a replacement as opposed to a tool that can be wielded by the most creative, by the most ambitious people who want to make a fundamental change in their lives, in their communities, in their companies.

Obviously, AI can automate a lot of work.

But to automate that work, someone needs to build that system.

Someone needs to be observant enough to look around their company or look around their school, whatever community they exist in.

So we're doing a lot of BS things.

There's a lot of...