
generalist! strategic account executive @Replit
Foster City, CA
Joined July 2023
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Zynfrastructure
JUST IN: Philip Morris commits $1,200,000,000.00 to expand U.S. Zyn production, doubling its original investment.
Michael Emling retweeted
We’ve achieved enough scale to command superior prices from cloud providers. So today we’re passing much of the savings to our customers and making Replit hosting one of the most affordable cloud hosting providers in the world.
Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit, on why founders have to understand storytelling:
"I think Replit would have probably died if I wasn't telling a story that is larger than the company itself."
"If you're trying to meme a dream into reality, I think you have to play that game."
"I had terrible stage fright. I went and took improv classes in New York, then took a storytelling class. I'm a big fan of exposure therapy. Anything you're afraid of, just go do more of it until you're desensitized."
@amasad @eriktorenberg
Amjad Masad on Going Direct & Founder Storytelling
Replit CEO Amjad Masad joins a16z's Erik Torenberg on how he went from crippling stage fright to one of the most famous CEOs on X, which platforms actually matter and why, and what founders get wrong about building in public.
00:50 Memeing a dream into reality
03:02 Conquering stage fright
04:00 Make your mistakes early
05:23 Building in public
06:41 The authenticity edge: Elon, Zuck, Trump
08:42 Become uncancellable
10:47 Advice for Anthropic and OpenAI
15:09 The day AI deleted prod
17:39 Who should go direct?
19:37 X vs Instagram vs YouTube
22:52 Go direct role models
@amasad @eriktorenberg
Michael Emling retweeted
I told someone at an AI company that I used replit to make an app. They kinda shit on @Replit 🥴 because they thought it was just for beginners.
Here’s why I love replit:
- it stays focused
- i can check progress on my phone
- it feels like it does what i ask it to do
Michael Emling retweeted
Excited to partner with @Microsoft to enable everyone in the enterprise to build and deploy safe & secure Fabric data apps.
This is possible thanks to Microsoft's new Rayfin SDK.
Michael Emling retweeted
Thrilled to partner with Visa to invent the future of agentic payments.
Visa is a large Replit enterprise customer where 1,000+ employees use Replit, and they’re also a strategic investor in Replit.
Today we’re expanding this partnership to R&D to make it seamless for developers to move money with agents.
At Replit we’ve been obsessed with programmable value for years and ran a few experiments on how to integrate payments deeply into the modern coding and AI stack, but it was too early.
Partnering with Visa will give us the opportunity to deliver on this dream.
Visa invests in Replit to power agentic payments for developers techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/vi…
Michael Emling retweeted
Some call it narrative reversal.
I call it foresight.
That’s why we never stopped hiring at Replit: replit.com/careers
Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding?
A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating.
AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases.
We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy.
Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.
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Michael Emling retweeted
Now everyone can experience getting paged at dinner because the site is down 😅
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Why this is important:
You really, honest can vibe so many B2B / B2B + AI apps into production for real now without a developer. It's not marketing. You really can, at least if you are willing to put in the time and the reps.
What comes next? Security + Maintenance
Keeping it all secure, for real.
And managing it every day AFTER you are in production.
A wave of security issues is hitting AI-generated apps and platforms.
This is one of the defining problems of the AI era.
Announcing Replit Security Agent: a new approach that merges static analysis with AI reasoning.
AI alone is too noisy. Static alone miss context.
Together, they produce dramatically higher signal. Finding real vulnerabilities and fixing in minutes.
Michael Emling retweeted
Google Cloud Partner of the year 🤠
We're honored to be named Google Cloud's 2026 AI Tooling Partner of the Year.
This recognition reflects what 50 million builders have made possible together. Product managers, founders, students, operators, and engineers all contributed to getting us here.
From Shaq building his own sports Q&A app in under an hour, to teams at Databricks, PayPal, and Adobe shipping production software faster than ever before, the mission is working.
When you expand who gets to build, you expand what gets built.
Thank you to everyone who builds on Replit every day.
Michael Emling retweeted
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