Replit is a browser-based software creation platform that has evolved from a collaborative cloud IDE into one of the leading agentic AI coding companies. Its Replit Agent lets anyone - engineer or not - go from a natural language prompt to a deployed, production-ready application. Headquartered in Foster City, California, the company now serves more than 40 million users and reached a $9B valuation in 2026.
Amjad Masad is the co-founder and CEO of Replit, the AI-powered cloud development platform that has grown to over 50 million users and reached a $9 billion valuation after its $400 million Series D in March 2026. Born in Amman, Jordan - where he learned to code at internet cafes by the 15-minute slot - Masad built Replit to remove the setup friction he experienced firsthand. After stints as founding engineer at Codecademy and on Facebook's JavaScript infrastructure team (where he helped build Babel.js and Jest), he co-founded Replit in 2016 with his wife Haya Odeh and brother Faris. Rejected by Y Combinator four times before acceptance, Masad now leads a platform where anyone can go from idea to deployed software without writing a line of code - believing there will be a billion software creators in the AI era.
Michael Truell is the 25-year-old co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor — the AI-native code editor that reached $2 billion ARR faster than any SaaS company in history. A former Google intern and MIT dropout who won the ACM/CSTA Cutler-Bell Prize and IOI medals in high school, Truell co-founded Cursor in 2022 with three MIT classmates, launching it publicly in March 2023. By November 2025, Cursor had raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation — and in April 2026, SpaceX secured an option to acquire the company for $60 billion. Truell's north star: replace coding itself with something better.
Andrej Karpathy is a Slovak-Canadian-American AI researcher and educator who co-founded OpenAI, led Tesla's Autopilot AI as Director of AI from 2017-2022, and now runs Eureka Labs, an AI-native education startup. He coined 'vibe coding' (Collins Dictionary 2025 Word of the Year), created the legendary Stanford CS 231n course, and builds open-source tools like nanoGPT that have become essential references for the global ML community. His YouTube 'Zero to Hero' series and multi-hour deep dives have demystified deep learning for millions.
Greg Isenberg is the CEO and co-founder of Late Checkout, an 8-figure bootstrapped holding company that builds community-first internet businesses. Known as 'The Community Guy' in startup circles, he has two startup exits under his belt (5by to StumbleUpon, Islands to WeWork), hosts The Startup Ideas Podcast (top 0.1% tech podcast), writes a Substack newsletter with 150K+ subscribers, and has built a 500K+ following on X by giving away startup ideas for free. His ACP Framework (Audience-Community-Product) has become a widely adopted playbook for modern founders.
Pieter Levels (levelsio) is a Dutch solo founder, serial indie hacker, and bootstrapping legend who built a $3M/year portfolio of AI and remote-work tools — NomadList, Remote OK, PhotoAI, InteriorAI, and a viral flight simulator — entirely alone, with no investors, no employees, and a stubborn preference for vanilla PHP. He pioneered the digital nomad community, co-launched the EU/acc movement, and turned a 2014 Google Spreadsheet tweet into a global platform. His build-in-public style and radical transparency reshaped how a generation of founders think about success.