Replit's Journey from College Side Project to $1 Billion AI Startup

Replit founder Amjad Masad shares how a 2008 college project to simplify collaborative web-based coding evolved into a billion-dollar company with 30 million users. Starting as a workaround for development environment setup challenges, Replit achieved product-market fit organically through developer demand, with significant growth acceleration after launching its AI coding assistant Ghostwriter in 2022.