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AM Amjad Masad Amjad Masad Founder and CEO of Replit, the online coding platform he co-founded in 2016 with his wife Haya Odeh and his brother Faris.

“Previously they would tell us that we've actually scoped this project out and it would have been $10 million. We spent $250,000 on Replit. And so it's happening all over the place. And I think really the outsourcing industry is sort of dead at this point.”

Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Startups & Venture · November 2026

“Previously they would tell us that we've actually scoped this project out and it would have been $10 million. We spent $250,000 on Replit. And so it's happening all over the place. And I think really the outsourcing industry is sort of dead at this point.” — Amjad Masad, Y Combinator Startup Podcast

Context

Paul Graham asked whether Replit's enterprise customers are mostly non-tech companies. Masad describes banks and manufacturers where a few internal 'vibe coders' start replacing expensive legacy software.

Transcript

Y Combinator Startup Podcast Around 26:53 into the episode
Amjad Masad

…corporations, banks, you know, things like that. And they have a lot of like SaaS software they pay $10 million for or like old software. And they find like a few Vibe coders inside the company that have adopted Replit and they're going and like replacing all these different systems. And

Paul Graham

it starts with internal stuff.

Amjad Masad

It starts with internal stuff. Yes. And previously they would tell us that we've actually scoped this project out and it would have been $10 million. We spent $250,000 on Replit. And so it's happening all over the place. And I think really the outsourcing industry is sort of dead at this

Paul Graham

point. So it's, and it's, is it mostly not very technical companies that you're talking to? Like companies that don't specialize in technology. They wouldn't call themselves tech companies.

Amjad Masad

We have a lot of tech companies as customers. I think that that's not where we have the biggest impact because I think they can fish for their own, but the sort of the banks, the, you know, the manufacturing or ordering companies, they need something like Replit. Otherwise, they'll shoot themselves…

Paul Graham

And really, it's driven mostly by people internally who are sort of ambitious. Like some guy who's in charge of sales and wants to write some tool for his sales department.

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