Replit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself
Masad grew up in Amman, Jordan, in a family with Palestinian roots, and sold software for managing local internet cafés while still a teenager. He came to the United States to be a founding engineer at Codecademy, and went on to run JavaScript infrastructure at Facebook before becoming a founder.Replit started as a website where beginners could run code in a browser without having to install anything. Today it uses the more familiar chatbot model: you type a sentence, and an agent does everything else — designing, writing, testing, deploying, and hosting your application.
- ▪Masad grew up in Amman, Jordan, in a family with Palestinian roots, and sold software for managing local internet cafés while still a teenager.
- ▪He came to the United States to be a founding engineer at Codecademy, and went on to run JavaScript infrastructure at Facebook before becoming a founder.Replit started as a website where beginners could run code in a browser without having
- ▪Today it uses the more familiar chatbot model: you type a sentence, and an agent does everything else — designing, writing, testing, deploying, and hosting your application.
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Platformer Pod Replit’s CEO on building a company that can run itself Amjad Masad on the "self-driving company," why a CEO is a glorified router, and what's left for humans when agents do the work Casey Newton 06 Aug 2026 — 23 min read Share Disclosure: my fiancé works at Anthropic, whose models Replit uses and which Masad discusses below.Last week on the Platformer podcast, Granola's Chris Pedregal told me we are only 5 percent into the AI transformation of work. For the fourth episode of our miniseries on productivity in the AI era, I wanted to talk to someone who is trying to speed up the process — building an AI tool for writing software, and a company that can increasingly run itself.Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, which he started in 2016 with his wife, the designer…
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