Replit founder and chief executive Amjad Masad makes the case that a young person’s willingness to question settled assumptions is the most valuable thing they bring, and that schooling rarely leaves room for it.
He walks through project-based learning, intellectual side quests and the case for following one idea deeply instead of optimising around grades, then turns to why he thinks starting a company too early can be a form of premature optimisation.
The conversation traces his own path from learning chess to experimenting with AI that can conduct machine-learning research.
