Amjad Masad

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

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Opening
Amjad Masad (00:00:00): The idea behind Replit is that making software today is very difficult. We want to make it easier. People view this as a developer in their pocket essentially. We have 34 million users globally. There's people everywhere learning to code on Replit, building startups, building personal software, personal tools. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:20): For people building products, say, product managers, founders, what skills do you see will matter more, matter less?...

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Low-ego framing
00:00): The idea behind Replit is that making software today is very difficult. We want to make it easier. People view this as a developer in their pocket essentially. We have 34 million users globally.

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (01:03:30): Amjad, thank you so much for being here. This was incredible. Amjad Masad (01:03:33): Thank you. Thank you for your podcast and...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Low-ego framing
upvote it. But now we need to be able to move things around as the admin, so I don't know how to log into the admin panel. So I'm going to ask the agent, how do I log into the admin panel? So it might've...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Ending
Lenny Rachitsky (01:02:58): Incredible. The future is wild. Final question I always ask everybody, how can listeners be useful to you? Amjad Masad (01:03:04): Come work at Replit. We have a PM role. I think up if you're product manager. We're hiring engineers and product managers. So come work at Replit or refer someone to Replit, especially if you're like our tools and you want them to get better. The best way to do that is to get us great people we can hire....

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