How Replit Agent made $1M on day one (then $250M in a year)

About this episode

The episode discusses how Replit's founder Amjad Masad achieved significant growth in a year and explores the potential of AI side hustles.

Want to build an AI side hustle? Get the free AI Side Hustle Crash Course: https://clickhubspot.com/lkb Episode 821: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Replit founder Amjad Masad ( https://x.com/amasad ) about growing 100x in one year. — Show Notes: (0:00) 2.5M to 250M in 1 year (10:28) the darkest hour (17:00) pivot, pivot, pivot, until it hits (28:19) companies exploding with Replit (33:05) Amjad's business ideas (38:44) "we are in the singularity" (51:24) best business biography (53:23) getting on Joe Rogan (57:00) slowing down under pressure (1:11:08) Vercel scandal (1:13:35) lifestyle upgrades of being a billionaire — Links: • Replit - https://replit.com/ — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sam Parr, Shaan Puri

Guest: Amjad Masad

Topics covered

• AI side hustle
• business growth
• entrepreneurship
• Replit
• investment
• technology

Keywords

• Replit
• AI
• business growth
• entrepreneurship
• Amjad Masad
• Sam Parr
• Shaan Puri
• investment
• technology

Sponsors

Hampton, Mercury

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Replit, Hampton, Mercury, Hubspot Media, Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Evolve Bank & Trust

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