Replit CEO Amjad Masad on why going direct wins: "Whenever there's a piece of communication or a story I wanna tell, and there's a choice between public and private, I might bias towards public. I often write something publicly and then paste it on Slack." "Being yourself is kind of a big radical thing that maybe started happening with Elon maybe 10 years ago. CEOs were supposed to be this very polished thing. They had to be filtered through this prism of PR, and journalists were kind of the way to get to the public." "Zuck changed the entire narrative around him by just being himself and actually talking directly to people." @amasad @eriktorenberg(a16z)