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- How Replit went from $2.8M to $150M ARR by pivoting away from professional developers A StrictlyVC Download podcast episode with Replit CEO Amjad Masad, recorded after the company's $250 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation. He discusses growing from about $2.8 million to $150 million in ARR after pivoting away from professional developers, and covers the risks and challenges of building autonomous AI coding agents.
- The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition A podcast interview in which Replit co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad traces the company from a student side project in Jordan to a platform with over 30m users. He explains why Replit stayed multi-language and general purpose, how fundraising stayed hard, and why he thinks AI will create a new kind of software creator.
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