Amjad Masad
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And he's just raising at a $35 million valuation right now.
So it's more than $1 million.
It's $35 that.
Because he already has a lot of contracts right out the door.
So it's very contextual.
We have...
a educator that's like a more of a story from two years ago, because the company is pretty big right now, half a billion dollars worth.
But he's a teacher during COVID.
I think he just left his school and started playing around with AI, playing around with Replit, going in and trying his hand at coding with AI.
And because he knows the problem space deeply, he was able to build a lot of tools for teachers, for grading students, for creating assignments with AI.
And education is one of like the hardest markets, but AI has this amazing ability to sell itself.
And quickly grew the company to 10 million annual revenue, 20 million annual revenue.
And now it's like half a billion dollars worth company.
But there are a lot of smaller ones, too.
The other day I was on Twitter, I saw this guy who created an app quickly with Replit to generate brand kits and brand design material, logos, all of that.
You enter your product name, you go through a simple flow.
It's called AnyMark.co.
And you pay, I think, 40 bucks or something like that, and you get an entire brand kit generated with AI.
And so I see these stories every day.
And it's typically someone who has some domain knowledge in a certain thing.