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Jan 2023
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Amjad Masad - The Future of Software Cre...

Colossus | Investing & Business Podcasts
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My guest today is Amjad Masad. Amjad is the founder and CEO of Replit, whose mission is to bring the next billion software creators online. Replit has built a browser-based coding environment that makes coding more fun, collaborative, and approachable. We discuss how that is possible and why the way most of us interact with computers today is suboptimal. We ... Show More
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