Amjad Masad co-founded Replit in 2016, building it initially as a browser-based collaborative coding environment before repositioning the company around AI coding agents as that category matured. As CEO, Masad has steered Replit's rapid valuation growth - tripling within six months in early 2026 - by pushing the platform toward fully autonomous app-building rather than incremental code-completion assistance.
Masad has been a vocal advocate for the idea that AI coding agents will substantially broaden who can build software, arguing that natural-language app creation lowers the technical barrier to building functional applications well beyond traditional professional developers.