Comment by SpicyLemonZest
1 day ago
As the article mentions, Saudi Arabia is aiming to build its own deep integration with big tech, which Masad is enthusiastically participating in despite the Saudi government's own human rights issues. (He argues, quite conveniently if true, that the Replit tools he sells to the Saudi government won't be used for any of the bad stuff.)
This clarifies things, thank you. I've gotten the impression that Masad doesn't have a very coherent worldview so I doubt he has given this contradiction much thought.
What gives you that impression?
Reading the article? The only thing resembling an ideology in there is a vague libertarianism of the like a lot of founders express.
His own incoherent worldview