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Amjad Masad

Amjad Masad co-founded Replit, a browser-based coding and deployment platform that grew from an online programming environment into an AI app builder. He demonstrated Replit Agent on Lenny’s Podcast and discussed the company’s early years on 20VC.

Updated 5 November 2026

Published photograph [1] ↗

$150mAnnualized revenue · Sep 2025 [2] ↗

$400mFunding · Mar 2026 [3] ↗

$9bnFunding-round valuation · Mar 2026 [3] ↗

The numbers behind the story

Dated disclosures

Replit’s reported revenue run rate

Replit says annualized revenue increased from $2.8 million to $150 million in less than a year, as reported in September 2025. [2] ↗

Earlier company baseline

$2,800,000

Sep 2025

$150,000,000

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Observation	Value
Earlier company baseline	$2,800,000
Sep 2025	$150,000,000

Dated disclosures

Funding rounds

Capital raised as disclosed by Replit. [3] ↗ [2] ↗

Sep 2025

$250,000,000

Mar 2026

$400,000,000

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Observation	Value
Sep 2025	$250,000,000
Mar 2026	$400,000,000

Dated disclosures

Valuation at the funding rounds

Company valuation reported when each round was announced. [3] ↗ [2] ↗

Sep 2025

$3,000,000,000

Mar 2026

$9,000,000,000

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Observation	Value
Sep 2025	$3,000,000,000
Mar 2026	$9,000,000,000

Dated disclosures

replit.com monthly visits

Semrush estimates for July–September 2026, worldwide, all devices. Figures describe the website. The public series used here covers three months. [4] ↗

Monthly visits · estimatedMove across the chart, tap, or use Tab to explore.

Observed months

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Observation	Value
2026-07	22,220,000 visits
2026-08	20,270,000 visits
2026-09	22,720,000 visits

More financial disclosures

Period / scope	Reported figure
End of 2026 target	$1bn run-rate revenue was a target in the March 2026 funding announcement. [3] ↗

Evidence, in pictures

Amjad Masad and Lenny Rachitsky in the Replit demo episode. [5] ↗

Masad talks through Replit’s beginnings on 20VC. [6] ↗

The bets, detours & strange details

Amman

From Jordan to a browser-based startup

Replit’s account traces Masad’s early years to Amman, Jordan. After working on JavaScript at Facebook he started Replit with Haya, who led its design. [7] ↗

2016

The browser was the original distribution channel

Masad dates the company’s start to 2016. Moving the programming environment into the browser cut out local setup and made a working program easy to share. [3] ↗

Codecademy

Programming education before Replit

Lenny’s episode notes identify Masad as an early engineer at Codecademy and later a lead on Facebook’s JavaScript infrastructure. The browser-based approach tied together education, collaboration and execution. [8] ↗

34m users

A prompt-to-app demo for an existing audience

Lenny’s November 2024 episode reports 34 million global users and shows how Agent can create and modify a full-stack app from a text prompt. [8] ↗

Agent 3

A more autonomous product alongside Series C

Replit announced its Agent 3 launch in September 2025 alongside the round, reporting a community of more than 40 million users. [2] ↗

Failures, disputes & the other side

Database deletion

An agent damaged a customer’s application

Replit confirmed that Agent deleted data from SaaStr co-founder Jason Lemkin’s app database. The company says he recovered it via rollback, and that Agent failed to surface the rollback option during the incident. [9] ↗

Development / production

The incident changed the safety roadmap

Replit says the incident predated its new separate development and production database system. It outlined stronger isolation and a planning mode to help users avoid letting an agent change live state. [9] ↗

Project index 4

Revenue, exits & abandoned experiments.

Find a project

Project	What it does	Revenue & numbers	Role / status
Replit	Browser-based development and deployment workspace.	$150m annualized revenue Sep 2025; $400m raised at $9bn valuation Mar 2026.	Co-founder and CEO [3] ↗
Replit Agent	Builds and iterates on apps from natural-language prompts.	Agent-only revenue undisclosed in cited releases.	Replit product · Agent 3 announced Sep 2025 [2] ↗
JSRepl	Browser-based REPL library for multiple languages.	Open-source repository.	Early open-source project [10] ↗
Codecademy	Interactive programming education.	Personal compensation undisclosed in the interview.	Early engineering role [8] ↗

Watch & listen

Conversations, product walkthroughs and the reasoning behind the numbers.

Lenny's Podcast

Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

Masad demos the Agent live and discusses the path from a browser REPL to app creation.

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20VC with Harry Stebbings

Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987

Early Replit history and the founder’s time working on developer tools.

Watch on YouTube ↗

20VC with Harry Stebbings

Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad

A later 20VC conversation about the economics of building with agents.

Watch on YouTube ↗

Outside views & responses

SaaStr

A customer case became a public safety test

Jason Lemkin later recounted the database deletion at a SaaStr event and discussed how he used the product after Agent 3 launched. [11] ↗

Sources & research notes

Open the source register

Amjad Masad

The numbers behind the story

Replit’s reported revenue run rate

Funding rounds

Valuation at the funding rounds

replit.com monthly visits

Evidence, in pictures

The bets, detours & strange details

From Jordan to a browser-based startup

The browser was the original distribution channel

Programming education before Replit

A prompt-to-app demo for an existing audience

A more autonomous product alongside Series C

Failures, disputes & the other side

An agent damaged a customer’s application

The incident changed the safety roadmap

Project index 4

Watch & listen

Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)

Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987

Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad

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