Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia
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- Cisco President & CPO on Rebuilding Products So Agents Can Use Them, Running a $460B+ Company in Founder Mode & the Rule of Thirds | Jeetu Patel
- Deel Head of Product on How AI Agents Do the Work of 600 Employees and Added $140M in New Revenue Without Hiring | Aaron Goldsmid, SVP of Product, Deel
- Replit CEO on The Self-Driving Company: How AI Agents Learn to Operate Themselves While Humans Set the Destination | Amjad Masad | E317
Notes
The Product Podcast · Replit CEO on The Self-Driving Company: How AI Agents Learn to…
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How Long Did Replit Take to Find Product-market Fit?
Amjad Masad agrees with Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia that Replit's first eight of ten years were the search for product-market fit. The faster schedule startups got used to in the SaaS era, find it and then scale, was the exception. Older businesses, and peers from that era such as Notion and Figma, took about five to eight years to build something meaningful.
He had patience because Replit was riding four trends he expected to matter more over time: cloud, AI, mobile, and collaboration. There was self-doubt. The company had just done a layoff, spending a lot of money and not making any. About 30 people were building Replit Agent, which he calls the first coding agent, with no examples