Faris Masad is one of three co-founders of Replit. The others are his brother Amjad Masad, who is CEO, and designer Haya Odeh.
The founders are Jordanian programmers. Replit began in 2016 in San Francisco and was incorporated in San Mateo, California. The name stands for read-evaluate-print loop, the interactive coding style the product is built around.
The original product idea came from Amjad Masad, whose earlier open-source JSRepl project went viral on Hacker News in 2011. The company joined Y Combinator in 2018 and raised a $4.5 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz.
Replit later grew into an AI software creation platform. In March 2026 it raised $400 million at a $9 billion valuation.