Fareed Mosavat

Investing Partner, @a16z speedrun. Did some important-ish stuff at Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Runkeeper, Zynga, and Pixar.

[Fareed Mosavat @far33d]

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 for agents from scratch.

Everything inverts:

• Discovery → protocol registries, not ads and billboards
• Trust → machine-readable reputation, not brand
• Onboarding → full capabilities upfront, not a narrow slice
• Payments → spend authorization, not checkout flows
• Retention → zero. Agents switch between API calls.

30 years of human product design. Day one of agent product design.

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@LeeJacobs this is very cool

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@bharatvasan @cmigos @bilawalsidhu @vishalgondal @HeironymusFox @andrevenancio @kmcurry AI + creative control - love it

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@purpppppppp @MikeIsaac @gnocchiwizard slanted

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@clairevo There are certain company cultures that work well in good times and come completely apart at the seams in hard times.

It’s not the culture itself that’s the problem, but the type of people you end up attracting during the good times that is the problem.

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@MikeIsaac @gnocchiwizard PS crooked rain isn’t even the best pavement album

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@MikeIsaac @gnocchiwizard I’ve seen Pavement and Liz Phair in the past year and at both shows there were a ton of teens.

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@ptr @instinct congrats
glad you're making the jump
need thoughtful product people building in this space

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@brewjohnson Getting a mortgage is the most teeth pulling process I've ever been through, and no better team to tackle it

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@justmazer Sharif is a sleeper here 👀

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@_CallMeMacy Ew no

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@bb_fresh @chanian Singleton pattern

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@martin_casado Doing our best to accelerate this

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@deedydas @ManuKumar As a Brown CS grad I think this is a very proper ranking

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@glerpie @johnnyrodgersis what how does this team just keep getting so much better so fast

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Jason is a great investor and awesome partner to founders. Slack ecosystem wouldn't be what it is today without him.

[Jason Spinell @jcspinell]

After more than a decade building Slack Fund (thank you @stewart, @aunder, @iamcal, @BradleyArmstr10 and many others), I'm thrilled to finally share some news: I've joined @collabfund!

I've known Craig and Collaborative Fund since their earliest days, so partnering with him, Sophie, Andrew and the rest of the team is a full-circle moment for me.

I'm staying on the West Coast and will continue to double down on opportunistic early-stage investing across Applied AI, Bio, Robotics, Enterprise, Future of Work and Health. 

I'm deeply thankful for the trust so many founders have placed in me over the last ten years, and I'm excited to continue building on these relationships, and establish many more!

Let's GO!

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@HimelandStein @clairevo That’s basically what we have now

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@zebird0 @speedrun Let's gooooo robin

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@justmazer Lists

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@audrlo 👀