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

(instrumental music plays) 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, uh, users globally. There's people everywhere learning to code on Replit, building startups, building personal software, personal tools.

For people building products, say product managers, founders, like, what skills do you see will matter more, matter less?

Typically, your bottlenecked where your ideas are not fitting in (laughs) because, like, they need to be made and they need to be made quickly, now you open up that bottleneck. So now, like, actually making things is, is a lot easier. Actually, you become limited by how fast you can generate ideas.

I think people are unaware of just how far things have gone.

I could imagine, whatever, five years from now, someone running a billion-dollar company with zero employees, where it's like the support is handled by AI, the development is handled by AI, and you're just building and creating this thing.

Man, the future is wild. (instrumental music plays) Today, my guest is Amjad Masad. Amjad is the co-founder of Replit, an AI-powered software development and deployment platform for building and shipping software. It's one of the fastest-growing developer communities and AI products in the world. There's a lot of talk these days about how AI is changing how products will be built, how product teams are gonna operate, which functions will be more and less valuable over time. But I feel like very few people have actually seen what modern AI tools can do and have fully grasped how much you can get done with very little technical skill now and in the future. And so, I'm gonna do an experiment with this podcast where I'm gonna do a series of Behind the Product episodes, where we go deep on important products that product builders should be aware of and should probably start playing with. In our conversation, Amjad does a demo of what you can do with Replit today, which is gonna blow your mind. And then we spend most of the conversation talking about the implications of this on the future of product development, on the future of product management, and on the future of startups and founders. It's a very exciting time. It's also a very scary and destabilizing time for a lot of people. And my thinking is, the more you are aware of what's possible today and where things are going, the better position you'll be in to thrive in this very wild and crazy future that is coming very fast. If you enjoy this podcast, don't forget to subscribe and follow it in your favorite podcasting app or YouTube. It's the best way to avoid missing future episodes and helps the podcast tremendously. With that, I bring you Amjad Masad. (instrumental music plays) Amjad, thank you so much for being here. Welcome to the podcast.