Fareed Mosavat
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Visiting Partner, a16z speedrun. Host @ Unsolicited Feedback. Did some importantish stuff at Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Runkeeper, Zynga, and Pixar.
Berkeley, CA
Joined March 2007
Actual useful growth advice. The story behind the story here is the layering - adding new growth levers in a logical order over time to accelerate, building on each previous layer vs. trying to bootstrap something new from scratch each time, and avoiding asymptotes.
we grew from zero to $50M ARR in <2 years, profitably i've never publicly shared our tactics before it's cost us over $5M to learn what I'm about to share 800-word long post on every growth hack that printed money for us I'll cover: 1. Influencer Marketing 2. Performance
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I have spent a long time trying to find a high quality DAC / headphone amp combo that just works, can easily switch to external speakers, and actually sounds good. This is the answer. https://t.co/Utyypo7vUr
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THIS IS THE MOST UNDERVALUED COMPANY ON NASDAQ, according to Warren Buffett’s analysis of price vs. value. Buffett always said, “Price is what you pay, value is what you get.” Right now, NextNRG Inc. ($NXXT) is a textbook example of that logic. Facts: how the hell a company
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996 because someone else makes you - misery. 996 because you want to - joy.
if you think the idea of working 996 is preposterous / "no one actually does that", it's possible you've just never had a job you truly love, that you feel really matters and, if you think *thinking 996 is preposterous* is preposterous, consider yourself lucky - for 99% of
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There's a fine line between being prepared and being scripted on a pitch or interview. Don't be scripted. In some recent @speedrun interviews, we've had some founders who have clearly prepared specific answers to some of our key questions. 1. The way you write isn't the same
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psst... I have a secret. @bbalfour wrote about it (Great Distribution Shift) and we talked about it months ago on the Unsolicited Feedback pod. https://t.co/8T2rmbkB0A
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This chart is so insane it looks fake. Huge businesses (plural) will be built on top of this chart.
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Why do hundreds of people journey across the world to live and build together at Edge City? Week 1 of Edge City Patagonia, beautifully captured by Jeffrey Sun ☀️
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First thing I do when I start an engagement with any company is audit their analytics and tracking. You can model the most important funnels and behaviors in almost any product in < 20 key events.
Most companies are *vastly* overcomplicating their analytics. Everything is tracked clicks, scrolls, impressions, events. Which is fine. Logging is cheap. We also need them when we need to understand rare phenomena. But attention isn’t cheap. Most of what we track never helps
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The clearest sign that a product has deeply integrated itself into your daily flow is the sense of panic when there's an outage. @meetgranola is down and it feels like losing one of my senses.
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Agree 100% - a foundational understanding of the fundamentals of computer science is durable no matter what the "new thing" is. Surprisingly, also durable across a wide range of tech careers - from engineering to product to sales and even investing.
This is not a particularly good take and is indicative of a fundamental misunderstanding of what a top-tier technical college education is suppose to offer. Preparing to understand modern AI as a Harvard or Stanford undergrad is not about learning "prompt engineering", vibe
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Uber Comfort is a complete scam. Need Waymo over the bay bridge as soon as possible
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Be spiky, not spherical. For any job, there's a min bar on all the principal components, but it's better to be the best at 1 or 2 things than mid on all of the axes.
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Let’s be honest. Most vibe coded apps look boring and generic. Small changes in prompts can have large impacts on overall look and feel. We can do better - and pencil is the solution - a proper canvas design tool right in your favorite AI code editor. 📝
Design Mode for Cursor Introducing a new way to design right where you code.
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Pro tip: there's a fine line between confidence and bullshit. Cross over it and you're f'd. Need to find the line that stands up to questioning.
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Introducing Cell. Make Your Product AI-native, or die. It’ll take less time than you think (sign up + info below)
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The truly great work only gets done after the first time a company has < 12 months of capital left. Once you've lived it, the urgency never leaves. I know this sounds nuts, but I've seen it time and time again.
I'm bullish on founders who choose to raise smaller seed rounds, even when they have the option of a bigger round out of the gate. the #1 reason - smaller rounds encourage FOCUS early on in a start-up, focus is so important - streamlining the team around a single target customer
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The three missing bits that drive the decision: Cohort retention dynamics Gross margins Acquisition growth consistency
Would you rather invest in a startup that’s: 1. $50M ARR with consistent growth over 36 months 2. $100M ARR that launched 12 months ago (Both are at the same valuation)
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