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Bloomberg Technology interviews Replit CEO Amjad Masad following the company’s $400 million funding round led by Georgian Capital. In the interview, Masad discloses that Replit grew ARR 100x in the previous year — from $2.5 million to $250 million — and states that the company is on track to reach $1 billion ARR in 2026. The raise will fund R&D hiring and international expansion.
Masad outlines how Replit positions itself relative to Cursor and Claude Code, arguing the products serve fundamentally different markets. Cursor and Claude Code primarily target core engineering teams, while Replit focuses on the rest of the organization — product managers, designers, and non-technical employees who can now build applications and automations themselves. He claims 85% of Fortune 500 companies are already using Replit, with primary adoption outside of engineering departments.
On international expansion, Masad highlights growing traction in Japan, South Korea, India (through a partnership with payments company RazorPay), and the Middle East, including a previously announced Saudi Arabia partnership. He frames Replit’s broader mission as creating a new enterprise category — “decentralized innovation” — where anyone in a company can ship software, rather than competing head-to-head with developer-focused coding tools for the same engineering budgets.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Technology · Published March 12, 2026
🏷️ Format: Interview
