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What strategic lesson did you take from working at Facebook and Yahoo before founding Replit?

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Founder & CEO at Replit

Niche: Technology

Revenue: $2.9M/mo

Location: San Francisco, California, USA

Started: 2016

Big tech companies often optimize for incremental metrics within existing paradigms rather than pursuing radical technological shifts. At large corporations, brilliant engineers frequently spend months building internal developer tools that never reach external users. Experiencing that friction convinced me that transformative platforms must be built independently. Startups possess the freedom to rethink computing primitives from first principles without legacy constraints.

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