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Amjad Masad

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“Really interesting about the communities. That's also a way to find ideas in general is just scour Reddit, scour TikTok hashtags and see like, what's a community of people? Let's say example looks maxing or let's say example like a specific sports team or like sports gambling, something like that, not promoting gambling, but you would look at the community, you look at the problems they have, and then kind of get ideas for what you could build. It's really fascinating”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Still go reach out to influencers and you can cut a deal with them. You can get them part of the subscription, part of the revenue. You can just pay them. And then you go from there. But I would say that's like the first few weeks.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would say it is important. Like, yeah, good products are very important, especially if you're creating something totally novel. But figuring out how to promote this is going to be important. The easiest places to do it is find communities on Reddit and other communities. Like if you have looks maxing out, there's probably a looks maxing on Reddit. It's just like posted there. Try to get some early users through there. Go to the various Discords. So that's like the early users. That's how to get like 100 users. At some point, you need to scale that. And that's where in Instagram and TikTok comes into play. If you're someone who's good at that, you have a superpower. If you're someone who's able to like create these short clips and talk about products, you have a superpower. But if you're not, you can.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, you just put in the prompt, you hit start building, it'll start the working environment. It'll work for 10 minutes. It'll show you a preview. If you want to use it on your phone, you can open that preview on the phone. It'll give you a QR code. And then test the app if the app is not exactly what you wanted. Most likely it's not. The first iteration is not. Go type to the AI, tell it exactly what it got wrong. It's like you misunderstood this. And don't try to overcome it. Just talk to it. Talk to it like you would talk to a person. Just be as specific as you can. So you misunderstood this. I meant the I should work in this or this other way and give it feedback. Go through that iteration cycle a few times and then go try test the app. It's really that simple. You just need to be able to explain ideas well.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yes, you're looking for the main use case. Don't overcomplicate it. Don't like add a bunch of features. You're just like, what is the core experience? And how can you get really quickly to value? Users, consumers these days just don't have a lot of attention span. So they're going to give your app like five minutes. And so figure out what's the user journey to get to like a five minute value aha moment. And then once you do that. You got your MVP. Go try it on someone. Go try it on a classmate, on a friend.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Get a good idea, typically tied to a trend. Second break that idea down as much as you can into a paragraph with a bunch of bullets, like the app, the looks maxing app should have a camera with an AI integrated and it should be able to take a photo of my face on my phone or my laptop. And it should kind of draw. I'm just making this up. It should draw lines, like get specific, like imagine the user interface and get specific about that. You don't have to write more than a paragraph because what's going to happen then, it'll give you the initial implementation and you'll react to that and see if it got it right or wrong. And then you can like sort of nudge it in different directions.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's practice. It's a skill. Like generated ideas, put them out there. I really like to use Twitter. I used to do without a lot where I talk about ideas. I kind of share them and see what the feedback early on. But now just make the app and see what the feedback is and learn from that and go from there. And think about ideas all the time. I think it's a muscle, like just continuously thinking about, okay, what if I built this? What would happen? And so there's all these different ways to be at a better idea generator.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So being plugged in is super important. And so, you know, a lot of the vices. That older generations think are vices might actually become advantages. So if you're brain rotted, terminally online person, that might be advantage because you know what's happening in the world. If you're someone who's also just like ADHD, you're really interested in novelty, you want to try a lot of different things. That's actually an advantage because AI really benefits people who can try a lot of things really quickly. Obviously, you need to get things to completion. You need to have some grid at some point once you've got some validation. But trying a lot of ideas is important. So back to your question. I don't feel like I answered, how do you generate ideas?”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, it's your idea, and I think it's a great idea because it's something in the ether right now. People are discussing, people are interested in it. Can you build an app that gives you feedback on your looks maxing progress? That's really great. I saw an app the other day that judges gives you, allows you to track your hairline progress, allows you to gives you interventions to make in terms of like what medications to take and things like that. And unless you take a scan of your head and obviously it's past time for me, but if you're dealing with that early on, it can help you track your progress. So that's very important. Like I think a lot of young people now”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that's actually the core skill in AIH. I think if you want to work on a skill, it's going to be about idea generation. Because the cost of implementation of those ideas is going down rapidly. It's going to go to zero at some point. So the bottleneck becomes is like, how fast can you generate ideas? And that skill is about one perception, like just looking around you in the world and seeing what's happening, what are the trends? Are you plugged in on social media? What are people talking about? What is the most interesting thing that's happening? And is there a market for that? Maybe we'll get to that later on, but we were discussing this idea of looks maxing app.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A unique idea, an idea that is Not an exact copy of something out there because that thing exists. You need a spin on that idea that's interesting.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I guess just Zoom in a little bit Give people practical steps. As someone with multi billion dollar company, if you wanted to build an app that could get a million downloads in six months, what are the five major steps you need if you could distill it?”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Background is going to be more advantageous for the entrepreneur. Now, when the company grows and you're getting a lot of revenue coming in, at some point you'll hire engineers just to make sure the security and the infrastructure is scaling and rapidly continues to help with that as well. But getting to market and generating revenue, you should be able to do it in a matter of days.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You don't need any development experience. You need grits, and you need to be like a fast learner. You need to be, like, I will say if you're like a good gamer, if you can jump in a game and figure it out really quickly, you're really good at this. But even if you're not a good gamer, you'll figure it out eventually. But people who grew up with technology or like fast learners are now the best at this. I will venture to say that not having a coding experience is becoming an advantage because coders get lost in the details. Product people, people who are focused on solving a problem, on making money, they're going to be focused on marketing. They're going to be focused on user interface. They're going to be focused on all the right things. So at some point, I think this year it's going to flip and I think not having a quoting.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So you're going to iterate on it. You're going to ask it for adjustments. And there's a preview there, and there's the chat box there, and you're going back and forth. So you're telling it something. Fixing the bugs, testing, it even, we'll give it a browser so it can start a browser, it can look at the app itself, it can test it, it can go to the internet, fetch information, it can integrate other AI models like image generation and things like that. And you go through this process. And I think within an hour or two, most people have an app that they're ready to put in front of a user. It depends on the idea, obviously. But for a lot of ideas, you can get something done that you can share with a friend or a targeted user and get feedback from them.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, it depends on the specialty and the language, and there's some nuance to it. But for the most part, people are not coding anymore. It's become more a higher level thing. So engineers still do some kind of engineering systems engineering, whatever. But if you're a product builder, all you have to care about is who's the customer is, what the problem you're solving is, what's your core differentiator? What do you understand about the world that other people don't? And can you put that into an app. So if you go to a replay right now, there's a prompt box like ChatGPT. You type in your idea. Like, I want to create, you know, brand kit generator. It'll go through a planning process. It'll tell you, here's what I understand you want to build. You can go back and forth on the plan. And then you tell it to go. It'll work for 10 minutes. It'll get you a minimum viable product. Obviously, that's probably not ready to ship yet.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is really good. You don't have to look at the code at all. Actually, initially, Repler started as, let's make coding easier. So they're still coding in the interface. Increasingly, we're just removing the coding features because you don't need to code anymore. Actually, even professional software engineers are not coding anymore. So code is almost fully automated.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Get Resh online. I think it's the easiest time to get rich in the history of capitalism, but certainly in the history of Internet. So if I'm someone with zero dev coding experience, what problem did you guys solve here? And like, what are people missing about where AI's at? You can kind of just speak absent to existence at this point. Like how much editing of it do you have to do? Like how much of this really is just, it's done month over month is improving. I will say at this point, we have an automated software engineer that is as good as a mid-level software engineer. It would get a job at Facebook or Google.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you pay, I think, $40 or something like that, and you get an entire brand kit generated with AI And so I see these stories every day. And it's typically someone who has some domain knowledge in a certain thing, you know, they realize there's a problem around them, maybe, you know, I see all my friends trying to start companies, but brands are really hard to build. So let me automate that. So just look around you in the world and just see what are the problems that people are dealing with that they're willing to pay for it. And it's so easy to try things because it's so easy and cheap to try things, you can iterate really quickly and arrive at an idea. I think it's the easiest time.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just left his school and started playing around with AI, playing around with Rappelt, going in and trying his hand at coding with AI. And because he knows the problem space deeply, he was able to build a lot of tools for teachers, for grading students, for creating assignments with AI. And education is one of the hardest markets, but AI has this amazing ability to sell itself. and quickly grew the company to 10 million annual revenue, 20 million annual revenue. And now it's like half a billion dollars worth company. But there are a lot of smaller ones too. The other day I was on Twitter. I saw this guy who created an app quickly with Replet to generate brand kits and brand design material logos, all of that. You enter your product name, you go through a simple flow. It's called anymark.co.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Can I come push it to you tomorrow? He said, Yeah, I mean, if you can solve this problem, if you can make it faster for us to get to our clients, he went home and he's been using Reploit just personally, just for fun websites, things like that. He spent the night working on the app. Next day he went and pitched it, left there with half a million dollars of letter of intent and did this a few more times with other bankers. And he's just raising at a 35 million dollar valuation right now. So it's more than one million. It's 35 that because he already has a lot of contracts right out the door. So it's very contextual. We have an educator that's like a more of a story from two years ago because the company is pretty big right now. Half a billion dollars worth. But he's a teacher during COVID. I think he...”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For most of the internet era, building software required learning. Bottleneck Replit was built to In 2011, Amjad Masad posted a simple idea Any programming language in your browser. No installation requires. Became replica. Replet's AI agent produces a working app in under an Revenue went from $2.5 million to $250 million in just over a year. When a competitor offered to buy the company for $1 billion at six employees, Masad said no, because he thinks he can build a trillion dollar one. Argument not having a coding background is becoming an advantage. Who wins now are the ones closest to the problem, not the ones who know the syntax. This conversation, previously aired on the Jack Neal podcast, Jack Neal speaks with Amjad Masad, CEO at Rep.”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Powerful tech companies tried to kill his vision and question whether AI will enslave us or empower everyone to escape the rat race. Why do you think AI isn't going to kill us all?”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The world was built by people that are not much smarter than you. Your job is to find the way of doing things that's most aligned where the world is headed. I think it's the easiest time to get rich in the history of capitalism, discerning in the history of internet. Going up in Jordan, today's guest was fascinated by programming but couldn't afford a computer which inspired him to make coding accessible for everyone. You can cast almost any problem in life as a coding problem. And I thought, okay, I'm going to hack into a school and change my grades. But when his company hit a billion dollar valuation, he refused every offer to sell, doubling down on his mission to turn the tech industry from a monopoly into a democracy. How much were you offered to sell your company for when we're very small? Not a lot of people, I think six people were offered a billion dollars. And what'd you say no? Because I think I can build a trillion dollar company. In this episode, we'll give his exact blueprint to build a million dollar app in minutes, explore why the most”
2026-04-15 · a16z Podcast · Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source