{"id":1022740,"date":"2026-07-22T08:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022740"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:13:23","slug":"who-is-amjad-masad-jordan-born-self-taught-coder-becomes-americas-newest-billionaire-of-arab-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/22\/who-is-amjad-masad-jordan-born-self-taught-coder-becomes-americas-newest-billionaire-of-arab-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Amjad Masad? Jordan-born self-taught coder becomes America\u2019s newest billionaire of Arab origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not every billionaire begins their journey in Silicon Valley. Long before he was building one of the world\u2019s hottest artificial intelligence startups, Amjad Masad was a young boy in Jordan teaching himself to code on an old IBM computer and creating software for neighbourhood internet caf\u00e9s. Today, that curiosity has turned into a $2 billion fortune, making the Jordanian-born entrepreneur America\u2019s newest billionaire of Arab origin. <\/p>\n<p>The Replit cofounder and CEO entered the billionaire ranks after his AI coding startup was valued at $9 billion following a $400 million funding round announced in March 2026. According to Forbes\u2019 America\u2019s Richest Immigrants 2026 list released on July 8, Masad is worth an estimated $2 billion and ranks No. 102.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every billionaire begins their journey in Silicon Valley. Long before he was building one of the world\u2019s hottest artificial intelligence startups, Amjad Masad was a young boy in Jordan teaching himself to code on an old IBM computer and creating software for neighbourhood internet caf\u00e9s. Today, that curiosity has turned into a $2 billion fortune, making the Jordanian-born entrepreneur America\u2019s newest billionaire of Arab origin. The Replit cofounder and CEO entered the billionaire ranks after his AI coding startup was valued at $9 billion following a $400 million funding round announced in March 2026. According to Forbes\u2019 America\u2019s Richest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022757,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022740\/revisions\/1022757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}