Fareed Mosavat
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Visiting Partner, @a16z speedrun. Did some important-ish stuff at Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Runkeeper, Zynga, and Pixar.
Berkeley, CA
Joined March 2007
We want to see new AI superpowers - not just the old things but faster / more efficient, but new things you couldn't have even imagined before.
Much of AI's impact so far has been efficiency-based: faster workflows and lower costs. Important — but not the endgame. I think 2026 is when AI shifts from efficiency tech to civilization tech: unlocking entirely new markets and realities. What market would you build for if
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Brown was the center of my universe in the formative years of my life. Hundreds of hours of math lectures in that building, 5am breakfast after all nighters in the diner across the street. Heart is broken for the kids just trying to get through finals now dealing with this.
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My DMs are on fire - if you're building in this space, do me a favor and write up who you are and what you're building at
speedrun.a16z.com
We invest up to $1M in your new startup.
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In 2026, multi-player AI will eat single-player AI. Right now, most AI tools are built for one human + one model in a private workspace. ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude. Incredibly powerful, but currently optimized for individuals. The impact is massive: drafts, code, specs, campaigns,
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Welcome @kenanhsaleh to the @speedrun team - he's a multi-time founder, a strong product thinker, and a keen judge of what it takes to build a great company.
Excited to share that I’ve joined @a16z as an Investment Partner. I’ll be focusing on early-stage investing as part of a16z @speedrun, where we invest $1M in new startups and help them scale. I first got to know a16z when I joined Lyft in 2019, where the firm was a major
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Common LTV lies: - infinite lifetime extrapolation based off early retention - using blended vs. channel specific retention as input - not discounting cost to serve / gross margin
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This is such simple but powerful advice. There is no "you" in an LLM. Be specific about what you're looking for and what you want the tool to do for you.
Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. For example, when exploring a topic, don't ask: "What do you think about xyz"? There is no "you". Next time try: "What would be a good group of people to explore xyz? What would they say?" The LLM can channel/simulate many
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Happy birthday to @andrewchen - over the past 10 years he’s been my mentor, friend, collaborator, board member, and boss. To another decade of building together.
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Ideas matter at the 0-1 stage, but not because the idea itself has value. The idea is a proof-of-work and the first legible output of team quality. How did you decide on it? What have you learned? Why do you want to build here? What will change your mind?
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I really wish there was an easy way to access my @meetgranola notes in Claude or ChatGPT. I have so many workflows tuned in other places and copy paste is the worst way to manage data.
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Meet @madelinehpark and @benleejamin, co-founders of Vega, from the class of SR005. They're building a reverse social network to restore the feeling of being part of a village. This is their story.
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In the long run, the measure of our success will be the amount of value we create for our customers.
Stewart Butterfield (@stewart) rarely does interviews. After 2 years of trying, I finally convinced him to come on. In this special conversation, Stewart shares the frameworks and mental models that most helped him build two of the most important products in tech history
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My general mantra on career over the past 20 years has been "find or create fareed-shaped boxes in amazing companies" Sometimes they appear and you fight like hell to land the role. Sometimes they don't exist and you fight like hell to prove it should.
This is how we always hire: find amazing people and then build a job for them. By definition, amazing people will be rare. So if you think of it as a search problem, this is the fastest way to create high talent density.
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Boston folks - Tech Week is coming your way. Let's hang!
BIG NEWS! For the very first time, we’re adding a new city to Tech Week next year… Boston! 🎉 Boston will kick off a full run of back-to-back Tech Weeks, and will run the week before New York, and then we’re back in SF and LA in October. Boston has one of the most thriving
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Every piece of desktop software was eventually replaced by a multiplayer / collaborative version of itself. The same will happen with AI tools, but now some of the players aren’t going to be humans.
Sam Altman says Slack has many positives, but it creates endless fake work We need an AI-native productivity suite to replace docs, slides, email, and Slack Not add-on features, but trusted agents that handle work and only escalate when needed This finally feels within reach
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