Replit CEO says public-first communication beats private messages for founders
amasad · x · 2026-07-21
Replit CEO Amjad Masad says he often chooses public communication over private messages when he has something important to say.
- He describes a habit of writing publicly first and pasting it into Slack later.
- Masad says the old model of CEOs being polished and filtered through PR has been replaced by a more direct style.
- He points to Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg as examples of leaders who changed public narratives by speaking in their own voice.
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