Replit CEO Amjad Masad: young people's job is to be heretics and question societal blind spots
a16z · x · 2026-09-24
Replit co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad argued on a16z's HAA podcast that young people's job is to be heretics: Silicon Valley is itself a monoculture with blind spots, and society needs youth encouraged to experiment and attempt the impossible. HAA, the new school behind the discussion, has no grades or tests and bets that students' side obsessions should be the curriculum's core.
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