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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
Yeah, we'd have excess cash at some point.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
Like,
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
It's a lot more fun later in life to like pulling a six-figure salary.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
Like you're not going to, it's not an exciting life.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
I think having wealth is a lot more.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
Like just the calmness on your nervous system that you've escaped the rat race, that itself is worth it.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
And so, I don't know, I've never, like, yeah, I've went out and partied and experienced all of that.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
And you can do that with not a lot of money.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
Back in Jordan, we used to, like, drive to Beirut and, like, go clubbing for, like, you know, 20 bucks.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
You know, it's like, you can have fun with not that much money.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
But then there's, like, a huge dead zone in terms of, like, how much...
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
quality of life and how much hedonism or fun if that's what you're interested in up until you get to upper echelon of wealth like there isn't that much difference between like a student going out like some of the best fun you could do just like going out to clubs or traveling or whatever going to low income places and like having fun there um
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
And then it's not that much better when you're pulling, you know, a few hundred grand a year.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
It's like you're kind of stuck at that point.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
But what you want to focus on is building enough equity and up until to the point where you're just like starting to build a family because that's when you're going to have to like sell down a little bit.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
You're not going to have as much time and so on and so forth.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
So I would just like focus on building equity.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
That's super helpful.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
Money is... Money, like cash, like dollars, are worthless.
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Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI
They are depreciate... Fast depreciating assets.