#82 AI CEO: How To Make A $10M Business With AI Employees (Amjad Masad, CEO @ ‪Replit‬)

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Codie Sanchez

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship, Marketing

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Want help scaling your business to $1M in monthly revenue? Click here to connect with my consulting team: http://contrarianthinking.biz/4ofpngv In this episode, host Codie Sanchez sits down with Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, to discuss the transformative potential of AI in the tech industry. Amjad shares his journey from coding at age six in Jordan to leading one of the fastest-growing AI companies. He offers insights into overcoming entrepreneurial challenges, the importance of non-conformist thinking, and how Replit empowers individuals to create applications without coding skills. Learn how AI can revolutionize business, the future of AI talent, and why Amjad believes the United States remains the best place for entrepreneurship. 00:00 Introduction and Excitement for AI 00:49 Early Beginnings in Coding 02:26 Turning Down a Billion Dollar Offer 05:55 Challenges and Pivots in Business 10:18 Repl.it's Revolutionary Impact 14:40 Empowering Entrepreneurs with AI 31:58 The Future of AI and Prompting 37:38 Leadership and Talent Wars in AI 48:13 The Risks of Joining a Startup 49:05 Government Policies and Innovation 49:46 The Role of WhatsApp Groups in Tech 50:34 Competing with Big Tech 51:14 The Importance of Direct Communication 51:31 Challenges of PR and Media Coverage 53:10 The Underdog Mentality 56:05 Building a Venture Scale Company 57:02 The Culture of Silicon Valley 57:59 Operating Principles and Company Culture 59:02 The Importance of Seeking Pain 01:05:45 Mentorship and Lifelong Work 01:14:10 The Human Experience and AI 01:25:47 The Future of AI and Society 01:27:16 The American Dream and Entrepreneurship MORE FROM BIGDEAL: 🎥 Youtube: / @podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: / bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: / big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ: 🎥 Youtube: / @codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: / codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: / realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO: Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.c... Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A lot of companies pay tens of thousands of dollars for software you can generate a Rapplet for $5 literally.
0:05.3	You are going to love this episode.
0:07.1	It is with Amjad Massad, who is the CEO of Rupplet, one of the fastest growing AI companies out there.
0:13.0	He is going to blow your mind and maybe help you blow up your bank account.
0:16.9	Before everyone in the world learns that this technology exists, you have a moment where it's
0:22.1	like an opportunity to capture a lot of value from it. Do you think that it is now possible for a
0:27.8	single individual in the case of a few weeks who has zero coding experience to build a million
0:33.6	dollar business with Replit? Yeah. So we have wild. I was talking to someone who works in venture capital.
0:39.8	He goes into Replit, building his dream platform to manage his investments.
0:44.1	He got commitments for 5 million ARR before he quit his job.
0:49.8	Wow.
0:50.7	Now more than ever, finding businesses that are running inefficiently and going into these
0:56.1	businesses and figure out where to plug in AI and make it a lot more profitable, even without
1:00.9	growing.
1:04.6	Welcome back to the Big Deal podcast.
1:06.4	I'm Cody Sanchez.
1:07.6	Today, if you want to make money online and you want to do it building with code and
1:12.8	are curious about AI. But even if you've never coded before, buckle up for this episode because I'm
1:18.4	obsessed. So I've been so excited for this podcast because I'm sort of a tech Neanderthal, but I've
1:24.2	been going down a rabbit hole of AI. I hired a guy who's actually good at it.
1:28.5	And it almost feels to me like there's a world before I realized all the things we could do online.
1:33.0	And now there's a world afterwards.
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