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Amjad Masad on Going Direct & Founder Storytelling Replit CEO Amjad Masad joins a16z's Erik Torenberg on how he went from crippling stage fright to one of the most famous CEOs on X, which platforms actually matter and why, and what founders get wrong about building in public. 00:50 Memeing a dream into reality 03:02 Conquering stage fright 04:00 Make your mistakes early 05:23 Building in public 06:41 The authenticity edge: Elon, Zuck, Trump 08:42 Become uncancellable 10:47 Advice for Anthropic and OpenAI 15:09 The day AI deleted prod 17:39 Who should go direct? 19:37 X vs Instagram vs YouTube 22:52 Go direct role models @amasad @eriktorenberg
“Replit would have died if I wasn’t telling a story larger than the company itself”
Amjad Masad on Going Direct & Founder Storytelling Replit CEO Amjad Masad joins a16z's Erik Torenberg on how he went from crippling stage fright to one of the most famous CEOs on X, which platforms actually matter and why, and what founders get wrong about building in public. 00:50 Memeing a dream into reality 03:02 Conquering stage fright 04:00 Make your mistakes early 05:23 Building in public 06:41 The authenticity edge: Elon, Zuck, Trump 08:42 Become uncancellable 10:47 Advice for Anthropic and OpenAI 15:09 The day AI deleted prod 17:39 Who should go direct? 19:37 X vs Instagram vs YouTube 22:52 Go direct role models @amasad @eriktorenberg
“Being cancelled is a choice” turned out to be a nice sound bite.
Amjad Masad on Going Direct & Founder Storytelling Replit CEO Amjad Masad joins a16z's Erik Torenberg on how he went from crippling stage fright to one of the most famous CEOs on X, which platforms actually matter and why, and what founders get wrong about building in public. 00:50 Memeing a dream into reality 03:02 Conquering stage fright 04:00 Make your mistakes early 05:23 Building in public 06:41 The authenticity edge: Elon, Zuck, Trump 08:42 Become uncancellable 10:47 Advice for Anthropic and OpenAI 15:09 The day AI deleted prod 17:39 Who should go direct? 19:37 X vs Instagram vs YouTube 22:52 Go direct role models @amasad @eriktorenberg
Amjad Masad on how to build a founder brand that keeps you alive
Amjad Masad on Going Direct & Founder Storytelling Replit CEO Amjad Masad joins a16z's Erik Torenberg on how he went from crippling stage fright to one of the most famous CEOs on X, which platforms actually matter and why, and what founders get wrong about building in public. 00:50 Memeing a dream into reality 03:02 Conquering stage fright 04:00 Make your mistakes early 05:23 Building in public 06:41 The authenticity edge: Elon, Zuck, Trump 08:42 Become uncancellable 10:47 Advice for Anthropic and OpenAI 15:09 The day AI deleted prod 17:39 Who should go direct? 19:37 X vs Instagram vs YouTube 22:52 Go direct role models @amasad @eriktorenberg
Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, on why founders need to go direct on every platform: "X is very good for Silicon Valley, for tech, for in-group messaging, for maybe one hop outside of Silicon Valley, which is the early adopter. Once you want to go to late adopters or early majority, Twitter becomes actually not very impactful there." "Instagram, Facebook, YouTube is where you get to the early majority. I just started focusing on it in maybe February or something like that, and we're getting an insane amount of views." "I would start with Twitter because that's where the news starts. This is where you can have outsized influence." @amasad @eriktorenberg
Amjad Masad on Going Direct & Founder Storytelling Replit CEO Amjad Masad joins a16z's Erik Torenberg on how he went from crippling stage fright to one of the most famous CEOs on X, which platforms actually matter and why, and what founders get wrong about building in public. 00:50 Memeing a dream into reality 03:02 Conquering stage fright 04:00 Make your mistakes early 05:23 Building in public 06:41 The authenticity edge: Elon, Zuck, Trump 08:42 Become uncancellable 10:47 Advice for Anthropic and OpenAI 15:09 The day AI deleted prod 17:39 Who should go direct? 19:37 X vs Instagram vs YouTube 22:52 Go direct role models @amasad @eriktorenberg
Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, on why founders have to understand storytelling: "I think Replit would have probably died if I wasn't telling a story that is larger than the company itself." "If you're trying to meme a dream into reality, I think you have to play that game." "I had terrible stage fright. I went and took improv classes in New York, then took a storytelling class. I'm a big fan of exposure therapy. Anything you're afraid of, just go do more of it until you're desensitized." @amasad @eriktorenberg
Amjad Masad on Going Direct & Founder Storytelling Replit CEO Amjad Masad joins a16z's Erik Torenberg on how he went from crippling stage fright to one of the most famous CEOs on X, which platforms actually matter and why, and what founders get wrong about building in public. 00:50 Memeing a dream into reality 03:02 Conquering stage fright 04:00 Make your mistakes early 05:23 Building in public 06:41 The authenticity edge: Elon, Zuck, Trump 08:42 Become uncancellable 10:47 Advice for Anthropic and OpenAI 15:09 The day AI deleted prod 17:39 Who should go direct? 19:37 X vs Instagram vs YouTube 22:52 Go direct role models @amasad @eriktorenberg