Replit CEO Amjad Masad: young people's job is to be heretics — even Silicon Valley is a monoculture
amasad · x · 2026-09-24
Replit co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad argues in an a16z interview that every culture, even Silicon Valley, is a monoculture with blind spots. Young people's role, he says, is to be heretics: question society's deeply held beliefs and experiment with impossible things. He also questions what college is for.
Related event: Replit CEO on a16z Podcast: Young People's Mission Is to Be Heretics(7 posts)→
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