Amjad Masad

Amjad Masad is founder and CEO of Replit, an online programming environment and AI coding platform. Born in Jordan, he previously led the JavaScript infrastructure team at Facebook and was a founding engineer at Codecademy. He has run Replit for more than a decade pursuing his goal of enabling one billion software creators worldwide. In September 2025 Replit raised $250 million from Prysm, Andreessen Horowitz, Amex Ventures, and others at a $3 billion valuation as it expanded its agentic AI app-building tools.