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Replit CEO on The Self-Driving Company: How AI Agents Learn to Operate Themselves While Humans Set the Destination | Amjad Masad | E317

Replit spent eight of its first ten years just searching for product-market fit. Then it 100x’d its revenue in a single year. In this episode of The Product Podcast, Carlos (CEO at Product School) sits down with Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit, to unpack how a decade of patience turned into one of the fastest growth stories in software, and why he…

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  1. How Long Did Replit Take to Find Product-market Fit? at 3:07

    Amjad Masad agrees with Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia that Replit's first eight of ten years were the search for product-market fit. Full answer

  2. What Is a Self-driving Company? at 9:52

    Amjad Masad says a self-driving company is one where engineering, support, and a lot of operations run on their own, while humans set the destination. Full answer

  3. How Does Replit Get Frontier Performance at 40% of the Cost? at 15:12

    Amjad Masad says Replit gets frontier performance at 40% of the cost, pretty consistently, by giving customers the cheapest token that is still the best for… Full answer

  4. When Will Companies Run AI Agents as Digital Coworkers? at 19:15

    Amjad Masad says that by the middle of next year, companies will be comfortably running agents that do real work, and it will feel like having digital… Full answer

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