Replit CEO Amjad Masad on hacking his university database and building Replit
a16z · youtube · 2026-09-10
- a16z publishes an interview with Replit CEO Amjad Masad.
- Masad grew up in Amman, Jordan, learning to code on borrowed computers at internet cafes.
- He later became a founding engineer at Codecademy and a software engineer at Facebook before co-founding Replit in 2016, a browser-based platform to write, run, and deploy code with no setup.
- Headline story: how he hacked into his university's database.
Related event: Replit CEO Amjad Masad's Journey: From Amman Cybercafes to YC Rejections(2 posts)→
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