This partnership with @OpenAI is long overdue. Before Replit was in YC, PG asked Sam to recruit us. Here’s Sam telling the story of how we first met:

I'm thrilled to announce that @Replit has acquired @attaapp, bringing our world-class AI analytics to everyone. Two years ago, I cold emailed @amasad asking him to invest in Atta. He and @pirroh saw an early demo of our charts and data apps on an infinite canvas and wrote a check the same day. @aminert and I founded Atta to democratize business analysis. We empowered the people closest to the business problems to understand their data, communicate their insights, and make better decisions. No SQL. No cleaning up AI slop. No picking the right analytical method, the right visualization, or even which model to use at what effort. You simply connected your data and we took it from there. Earlier this year, two public companies ran their Q1 QBRs on Atta. At one of them, the top 50 execs replaced their SaaS tools with decks and docs built in Atta, connected directly to their data warehouse. We're excited to continue our mission at Replit, where it will reach business leaders everywhere. Joining Replit means the world to me. I grew up in a low-income, immigrant community outside Chicago where nobody knew anything about computers, so I taught myself. I wrote my first line of code on Codecademy in 2012. My mom still remembers me running over to show her a Python function that passed all its tests. When Replit came out as a cloud-based terminal, it was the perfect place to practice coding challenges with my younger siblings, both software engineers now. (I later realized Amjad also built Codecademy before founding Replit!) Learning to code pulled my family out of generational poverty even though most people had already written us off. Thank you to our families for patiently enduring the joys of startup life. Thank you to our team and advisors who helped build Atta along the way. Thank you to our customers who trusted Atta with their highest-stakes decisions. Thank you to @MenloVentures (@mejoff, @shawnvc ), who supported us from inception to design partners to our first annual contracts. And thank you to Amjad and Michele for the opportunity to continue pursuing our dreams. After we pitched Atta, Amjad suggested we co-work from the Replit office. We're here now, and we're loving it. Try the new analytics experience in Replit today: replit.com/blog/replit-acqui…

WTF, so much traffic today and we aren't even live yet 🤫 i love how @Replit has built in analytics and growth tools. next up, @resend integration. devs.dev

Recent security incidents show frontier AI labs may be moving too fast. Replit Co-Founder & CEO @amasad warns that labs must prioritize system safety before risking core internet infrastructure: "I think the responsible thing for them to do is to pace and slow down, because otherwise they're going to be criminally liable for hacking core internet infrastructure." #AI #Cybersecurity #TheInformation

Replit Animation + Opus 5.5 = 🔥 Opus made this video in <30mins with JavaScript.

50mn+ people have built on Replit. We just launched the Airwallex connector to help them add payments, subscriptions, invoices and more. See how easy it is to add card checkout in this demo by @awxcyrus & @dankimxyz. Start building: replit.com/integrations?q=ai…

Opus 5.5 just built Minecraft in Replit with one prompt. Crafting, mobs, caves, and more - no external assets used. ~1 hour, ~$20. Cheaper than buying the actual game. First model I've tested that can pull this off. Try it here: voxel-survival-sandbox.repli…

🔊 2:08 🔊 The models aren’t slowing down. Neither are the stakes. The conversation needs to move beyond “AI safety” to cybersecurity: who has access, what’s connected, and how it’s secured. That’s where Replit is focused. Build what you need. Keep the chaos out.

Muse can now make apps on Replit

You can now build with Airwallex without leaving @Replit. Describe what you want and the agent handles the docs, integration + sandbox testing.

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Replit co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad says many startups begin as premature optimization: founders raise money for ideas they don't care about. "I think a lot of starting startups is premature optimization. I see it in a lot of kids now, where they're part of a group and a lot of their friends are raising a lot of money, and some of them are becoming unicorns." "The motivation becomes envy, a really negative motivation as opposed to a positive one." "They pre-commit to an idea they're not even interested in, raise money for it, and start pre-optimizing for some path that they haven't really reached yet. That's why I always come back to this idea of curiosity. What is actually driving you?" "Once you find that idea that you want to dedicate your life to, or dedicate the next 10 years to, it's going to have such gravity that you're not going to be able to avoid it." "I actively tried not to start Replit, but it exploded into a startup on its own. That's the feeling you should get: 'I guess I have to do it,' because there's so much momentum behind it." "There's a predatory thing I've heard that happens right now where VCs go to Stanford students and give them a million dollars pre-idea... It's like the music industry... You're taking this young person and pre-committing them to something they shouldn't have committed to." @amasad

Replit CEO Amjad Masad and a16z's Erik Torenberg on the young talent formula: go really deep, stay authentically likable. Amjad: "If you're able to tell a story about some project you've done and you've gone really, really deep in it, that's always impressive because that's what most people lack." "Most people get bored easily. Most people do the traditional thing. But did you actually follow a thread all the way through?" "That shows all sorts of good personality traits: persistence, intrinsic motivation. You might be doing something where you're following your curiosity, and maybe it doesn't have an immediate reward." Erik: "I think it's both not being afraid to spike in something. A lot of people just show up too broad in everything, but not really amazing at anything. And just follow that to its conclusion. See how good you can get at it." "While also having a baseline of interpersonal skills. Be likable in a way that's not contrived or fake. Be truly authentic, because people want to support people who are good people." @amasad @eriktorenberg

Amjad Masad with Gagan Biyani and Erik Torenberg on HAA: The Horowitz Andreessen Academy The ideal education today is a place with room to meander, a space to go heads-down when you’re obsessed, alongside unconventional peers. Gagan sees it in every student he meets: the interesting thing they're building is happening outside class, unsupported. Amjad got really into chess and it evolved into a whole product line. The thesis behind HAA is side quests shouldn't be on the side. No grades, no tests. Trust is the design principle - Silicon Valley runs on it, so why not apply it to students? Empower ambitious young people to run with the ideas that have real gravity they can’t avoid. "Young people should be heretics… We respect the past, but we're unapologetically going to change it." 1:03 Why young people should be heretics 5:35 Amjad designs his ideal college 8:45 Side quests deserve more resources 10:55 Don't take a Python class 14:30 College vs. raising money at 18 17:15 Most teen startups are premature optimization 18:30 "I tried not to start Replit" 19:40 How a chess hobby became a Replit product 24:25 The self-driving company 26:30 Respect the past, change it anyway 28:50 What Oakland politics taught Gagan about trust 31:50 Why trust works better than rules 36:35 The positive-sum culture HAA wants to pass on 39:20 Speaking to the world vs. speaking to the in-group 41:05 How Amjad found his moral compass 44:00 What Amjad looks for in young talent YouTube: piped.video/Q8yFrGwIftE @amasad @gaganbiyani @eriktorenberg

“Eventually your fridge will make your websites!” - @amasad Quote of the day! Thanks @theinformation @Jessicalessin

Replit co-founder and CEO Amjad Masad says the job of young people is to be heretics and question society's deeply held beliefs: "What is college, and what is it for? A related question is: What is the utility of young people in society?" "We probably have a blind spot in society. We have a lot of blind spots in Silicon Valley. There are a lot of ideas that don't come out of Silicon Valley because there's a monoculture here." "There's a certain way of thinking. Every culture is somehow a monoculture, even the most radical cultures like Silicon Valley." "What do you need from young people? You need them to experiment. You need to encourage them to try impossible things." "Every now and then, they're going to have a breakthrough that once we thought was impossible, and now it's suddenly possible because the technology changed, something changed." "College ultimately should be about that. Let's get these people with clear minds, Zen mindsets, first-principles mindsets, and encourage them to question the deeply held beliefs." @amasad

You need young people to break the mold, question deeply held beliefs, and attempt the impossible. The ideal college would cultivate exactly that.

“"There's a certain way of thinking. Every culture is somehow a monoculture, even the most radical cultures like Silicon Valley." "What do you need from young people? You need them to experiment. You need to encourage them to try impossible things." - @amasad Be a heretic!

They're calling it the worst take of all time

Your RevOps tools don't need to wait on engineering anymore. We're launching a new series: RevOps on Replit. Real tools RevOps teams run, and a live build on a real revenue problem. Quoc Tran leads RevOps at Replit and also builds his team's internal tools on Replit. Thursday, 9AM PT. Live on YouTube, LinkedIn and X. RSVP: luma.com/yavw3vfg Stream: nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1nKOLQARk…