Michele Catasta, President of Replit

Michele got it all — a strong guy, an Italian, and a veteran of Machine Learning, AI and Data! And he is a great listener and a super fun guy to talk to. When inviting Michele to our Fika series, I found an old thread, from 2015, when I visited Florence for WWW conference and met Michele, then a student of Computer Science and a user of Scala, where I ran the biggest meetup in the world. We talked about Amazon Mechanical Turk (I used to be at Amazon). Thus the recent spectacular success of Repl