@theventure: This immigrant couldn't afford a laptop, so he built his own $9 billion app! Amjad Masad grows up in Jordan. His father is an engineer who spends his life savings on an IBM computer. Every evening his dad types commands, hits errors, gives up, and goes to bed, and then six-year-old Amjad sneaks back in and types them correctly. His father is furious every time he catches him. In 2005, Amjad is in college and can't afford a laptop, so he has to borrow one and spend an hour setting it up before he can write a single line of code. So he builds a way to code straight in the browser, and people online love it. By 2016 Amjad is working at Facebook when he quits to turn his old college project into Replit. Y Combinator rejects him four times before letting him in. Soon millions are using Replit, but the company is burning cash, and in 2024 he has to cut half his team. ✓ Bets everything on an AI that turns a sentence into a working app ✓ Rockets from $2.8 million to $150 million within twelve months ✓ Wins over 85% of Fortune 500 companies ✓ Turns the kid who wasn't allowed to touch the computer into someone worth $2 billion Sneaking onto his dad's IBM at six → too poor for a laptop in college → builds coding in the browser → quits Facebook → rejected by YC four times → cuts half his team → bets it all on AI → $2.8M to $150M and an $9B company. Sometimes the problem you personally couldn't get past is the one worth building your life around. #Business #Replit #AI #Success #Entrepreneur@Amjad Masad @Replit

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