Creating a website and bringing it online was terrifyingly difficult, requiring weeks of work to deploy state-of-the-art technology.

To innovate, you need really awesome deployment infrastructure. If you have an idea, you should be able to convert it into a URL as soon as possible.

Users love that with Replit, they can go straight from nothing to a fully deployed system without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.

I want to make it easy for developers to build and ship to the web, similar to how Stripe simplified financial infrastructure for developers.

The success of companies like DoorDash and Airbnb depended on their ability to rapidly ship software, which would not have been possible without strong technical leadership.

The underdog mentality in web development motivated me to prove that PHP could be a great way to build applications quickly.

In the early days of Amazon, we faced failures with companies integrating due to infrastructure issues, which led to the creation of AWS.

We didn't compromise on making things easy, and because I relied on a foundation of principles, it was scalable to the largest applications on the internet.

The magic happened when we aligned the needs of those wanting simplified deployment with those wanting simplified React and web application building. I struggled in the beginning to deliver the vision incrementally and meet the market where it was, which at the time was very static.