Founder Profile
Amjad Masad
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Amjad Masad?
Amjad Masad is a founder of Replit, which was founded in 2016 with Haya Odeh and Faris Masad.
- Company founded
- Replit
- Founded
- 2016
- Co-founders
- Haya Odeh and Faris Masad
Background
Grew up in Amman, Jordan. Built an open-source browser REPL project in 2011, was a founding engineer at Codecademy, and later worked on JavaScript developer tooling at Facebook.
Founding Story
Amjad Masad is co-founder and CEO of Replit. After Codecademy and Facebook, he left to start Replit in 2016 with Haya Odeh and his brother Faris Masad. He led the company through Y Combinator (W18), the 2023 unicorn round and the 2024 decision to rebuild around Replit Agent, which lifted annualized revenue from about $2.8 million in 2024 to hundreds of millions of dollars by 2026 and the company's valuation to $9 billion.
Education: Princess Sumaya University for Technology. Amjad Masad was born in 1987.