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Amjad Masad

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2535 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

There's a mindset of, first of all, the world was built by people that are not much smarter than you.

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

And

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

There are a lot of rules that are accidental, that are there for historical reasons.

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

And your job is to find a path to the future, find the way of doing things that's most aligned where the world is headed.

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

Because the advice your teachers, your parents are going to give you are just not valid anymore.

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

My generation, like millennials, the advice that the boomers would give us is that you work hard, you get into good university, you check this box, this other box, you get a job, you buy a house and a car, get a family, that's it.

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

A few years in, 20 years later, you're a millionaire because your house property went up value.

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

And you retire and live happily ever after.

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

That doesn't exist.

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

That does like existed for like 20, 30 years post-World War II.

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

And then it's gone.

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

So it's not about cheating.

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

It's about figuring out how the system is rigged against you.

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

And how do you actually hack it?

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

How do you get past it?

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

How do you...

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

How do you do things in a way that is more native and true to where the world is headed today?

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

AI is a great tool for that.

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

Just the fact, if you're someone who just understands how these tools work and understand how you have an amazing time advantage, you can do things a lot faster.

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

Again, there are a lot of programmers that are still doing programming the old way, and they're going very, very slow, and they're going to continue to go very slow until they get obsoleted.