Amjad Masad

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2,401 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 15 Apr

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The a16z Show · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · 15 Apr 2026 podcast

Let's just sit there and just listen.

So I would skip class and I would like

go work on my programming, go, you know, take a job.

I always had jobs during school.

And then I would study enough to just pass.

And I almost always pass.

And some cases in like math and computer science, I would like get good grades.

The problem in my school is, and a lot of schools around the world, is that they count your attendance.

So if you missed class too many times in a row, you get disqualified.

Um, and so I, uh, I, I felt like it was kind of deep injustice, um, especially for, for people like me who are like creative, want to be doing things, don't want to be sitting in class, uh, which I think is like a very outdated way of learning in general.

I think we're going to move past, especially with AI.

So, um,

All my friends were graduating.

I'm like five years in, almost six years in school.

School should have been three, four years.

And I feel like life is passing me by.

Like, you know, I had all these big dreams and ambitions.

I want to build companies, make a lot of money, all of that.

But I was like stuck.

And so I thought I'd use my skills to get over this problem.

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