Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

The idea behind Replet is that making software today is very difficult. We wanna make it easier. as a developer in their pocket, essentially. We have thirty four million uh users globally. There's people everywhere learning to code or uplet, building startups, building personal software, personal tools. For people building product. Like what skills do you see will matter more, matter less? Typically your bottleneck to where your ideas are not fitting in because like they need to be made and they need to be made quickly. Now you open up that bottle. So now like actually making things is is a lot easier. Actually you become limited by how fast you can generate ideas. I think people are unaware of just how far things have gone. I could imagine Whatever, five years from now, someone running a billion dollar company with zero employees where it's like the support is handled by AI, the development is handled by AI, and you're just

building and creating this thing. Man, the future is wild. Today, my guest is Amjad Masad. Amjad is the co-founder of Replit, an AI-powered software development and deployment platform for building and shipping software. It's one of the fastest growing developer communities and AI products in the world. There's a lot of talk these days about how AI is changing, how products will be built. how product teams are gonna operate, which functions will be more and less valuable over time.

But I feel like very few people have actually seen what modern AI tools can do. and have fully grasped how much you can get done. with very little technical skill now and in the future. And so I'm gonna do an experiment with this podcast where I'm gonna do a series of behind the product episodes. where we go deep on important products that product builders should be aware of and should probably start playing with.

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