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Fareed Mosavat
@far33d
Visiting Partner, @a16z speedrun. Did some important-ish stuff at Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Runkeeper, Zynga, and Pixar.
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    Fareed Mosavat
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    May 1
    Agent-native products are coming. Every product on the internet was built for a human with eyes, a cursor, and a credit card. Agents have none of those things. Most companies are teaching agents to pretend to be humans. That's a hack. The real opportunity is products designed
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    Fareed Mosavat
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    Nov 12, 2019
    I’ve worked for at least 3 billionaires.... more if you count paper earnings and investors. None of them did any of these things. All of them have helped create amazing new things in our world that didn’t exist before and employed thousands of people.
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    Robert Reich
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    Nov 10, 2019
    There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars in America: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance None of these has anything to do with being successful in the supposed free market.
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    Feb 9, 2021
    Two skills that can make you stand out at basically any role at any startup between 50-1000 employees: Get good enough at SQL to do a basic join. Learn to build, understand, and analyze cohort models.
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    Fareed Mosavat
    @far33d
    Aug 11, 2023
    Never let the truth get in the way of a good story
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    Enzo Avigo
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    Aug 10, 2023
    Do we still need Product Managers? @stripe’s zero-PM strategy lean toward a « no » ❌ Enters Engineering-Driven Development ↓
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    Stripe has product managers, as evidenced by their job postings (documented in this tweet twitter.com/far33d/status/… ) A visit to their linkedin page linkedin.com/company/stripe… shows 316 current employees in product management roles
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    Fareed Mosavat
    @far33d
    Oct 22, 2025
    This chart is so insane it looks fake. Huge businesses (plural) will be built on top of this chart.
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    Fareed Mosavat
    @far33d
    Dec 16, 2019
    Billion dollar product idea: Let me see someone else’s IG ads so I know what to buy them for Christmas.
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    Fareed Mosavat
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    Apr 15, 2020
    Layoffs always suck, but there's a good way and a bad way, and this is about as good as it gets from Carta. medium.com/@henrysward/ca…
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    Fareed Mosavat
    @far33d
    Dec 21, 2017
    Replying to @jack
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    Fareed Mosavat
    @far33d
    Mar 20, 2021
    As a non-founder I like to think of exit success as: 1) everyone gets a job. 2) everyone can buy a car. 3) everyone can buy a house. 4) everyone can buy a house for cash. 5) everyone can retire.
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    Ho Nam
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    Mar 19, 2021
    5 levels of "startup" success 1. Unicorn valuation (often a mirage) 2. $1B revenue 3. $1B profits 4. $1B founder equity (must be cap efficient) 5. $1B given away by founder
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    Fareed Mosavat
    @far33d
    Jan 31, 2020
    I bet Airbnb Experiences will become a massive business. I've done a handful and each has been fun. Great way to travel alone, meet some people, and do unique things in a new city.
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    Fareed Mosavat
    @far33d
    Mar 20, 2023
    Had brunch in Hayes Valley with family today. Overheard some spectacularly awful startup advice being dished out by a 25 year old, delivered with extreme confidence. SF is back.
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    Fareed Mosavat
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    Feb 13, 2019
    SQL is a superpower and career accelerator, especially for non-engineers in a startup environment. Immediately transforms you into a person with answers instead of only questions.
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    » teej
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    Feb 13, 2019
    I won’t stop beating this drum - SQL is a critical skill and an important programming language. craigkerstiens.com/2019/02/12/sql…
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    Fareed Mosavat
    @far33d
    Dec 21, 2018
    This whole thread and not a single person has pointed out how incredibly awful the Doors are. They’re just mediocre high school poetry set to organ music.
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    Fareed Mosavat
    @far33d
    Feb 28, 2019
    Product leadership as a series of questions: Before you build: What's the problem we are solving? How does this fit into our broader strategy? How do you know it's a problem? How will we know we’ve solved the problem? What will we learn?