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Amjad Masad

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2535 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And he's just raising at a $35 million valuation right now.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

So it's more than $1 million.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

It's $35 that.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Because he already has a lot of contracts right out the door.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

So it's very contextual.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

We have...

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

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.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

But he's a teacher during COVID.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

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.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About 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.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And education is one of like the hardest markets, but AI has this amazing ability to sell itself.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And quickly grew the company to 10 million annual revenue, 20 million annual revenue.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And now it's like half a billion dollars worth company.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

But there are a lot of smaller ones, too.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

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.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

You enter your product name, you go through a simple flow.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

It's called AnyMark.co.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And you pay, I think, 40 bucks or something like that, and you get an entire brand kit generated with AI.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And so I see these stories every day.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And it's typically someone who has some domain knowledge in a certain thing.