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'Silicon Valley's only contrarian': Amjad Masad on the cost of dissent in tech

We need people to wake up to the injustices because if we failed to do so we will all embark in a period of obscurantism the world has never known. Hope and peace to all

5 hours agoabdelhousni

> “Contrarianism in Silicon Valley is largely fake,” Masad says. “Taking the Palestinian position on that issue was actually contrarian.”

Amjad is a contrarian that is experiencing a shift in the overton window that hasn't caught up with Silicon Valley yet, which is why VCs and HN disavowed and abandoned him years ago.

Well it turns out that Replit is making hundreds of millions and is worth $3B - $9B and this looks extremely undervalued.