Fareed Mosavat
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Fareed Mosavat
@far33d
Visiting Partner, @a16z speedrun. Did some important-ish stuff at Reforge, Slack, Instacart, Runkeeper, Zynga, and Pixar.
Berkeley, CA Katılım Mart 2007
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I can finally talk about this!! Hotbox is backed by @a16z @speedrun :)
I spent the last 14 months in Korea and now I’m back in SF, where it all began. My entire career exists because of social media. From early NeurIPS papers, to working on ranking algorithms, and then building viral playbooks for startups.
The thing I kept coming back to is: every company has no choice but to become a media company. To distribute. To get attention. That is the next generation of entrepreneur’s biggest challenge. That’s the next single person unicorn’s moat.
Hotbox is built for that next gen entrepreneur. Businesses run entirely on social now. Hotbox is the sales infra for the social economy.
more to come.
sign up on our waitlist & lmk if you’ll be at the a16z speedrun demo day 🤫
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@clairevo I will brute force Saves the Day into the final if I have to
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you say there's no use case for consumer AI, i say 100 people are arguing over the joinmarchsadness.com emo sad sixteen and i built a wall of shame for everyone who voted for good charlotte's "the anthem"
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This is why I don't believe in the "no one will have jobs" doomerism - humans have an insatiable appetite to do new things.
andrew chen@andrewchen
AI is supposed to save me time, but now I find myself building stuff all evening and weekend and it's actually increasing my time in front of the computer WTF
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@cjpedregal appreciate it - while MCP is useful, being able to just query granola data directly is essential to build predictable workflows
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There are some tweets out there saying that Granola is trying to lock down access to your data.
Tldr; we are actually trying to become more open, not closed. We’re launching a public API next week to complement our MCP. Read on for context.
A couple months ago, we noticed that some folks had reversed engineered our local cache so they could access their meeting data.
Our cache was not built for this (it can change at any point), so we launched our MCP to serve this need. The MCP gives full access to your notes and transcripts (all time for paid users, time restricted for free users). MCP usage has exploded since launch, so we felt good about it.
A week ago, we updated how we store data in our cache and broke the workarounds. This is on us. Stupidly, we thought we had solved these use cases well enough with our MCP.
We’ve now learned that while MCPs are great for connecting to tools like Claude or chatGPT, they don’t meet your needs for agents running locally or for data export / pipeline work.
So we’re going to fix this for you ASAP. First, we’ll launch a public API next week to make it easier for you to pull your data.
Second, we’ll figure out how to make Granola work better for agents running locally. Whether that’s expanding our MCP, launching a CLI, a local API, etc. The industry is moving quickly here, so we’d appreciate your suggestions.
We want Granola data to be accessible and useful wherever you need it. Stay tuned.
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@nabeel @appenz @meetgranola Already working on it. I prefer how structured / specific the local files are vs. MCP tool calls but willing to try.
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@far33d @appenz @meetgranola Lemme help.
"Hey Claude - can you re-write my backend that uses the unsecure local Granola database to use the secure Granola MCP instead - here are the docs docs.granola.ai/help-center/sh…"
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Sorry to see Granola @meetgranola going closed. They encrypted their local db, no local and no cloud API. In a world where notes are managed by agents, the app now has zero value.
Any recommendations for good alternatives? What are you switching to?
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@far33d Okay but did you write this tweet or is it out of an LLM?
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In recent years interviews for execs, product managers, marketers, etc have started to add a homework step so that people can show work output. It can be super helpful signal
In recent weeks these homework replies have become overwhelmed with AI slop. Instead of 2-3 succinct pages reflecting a career of deep thinking, you get back fifteen pages of meandering ideas that anyone could generate
What's the best way to address this?
The best way, of course, is to actually work with them on a work trial so that you can really get a feel for how they act; however this is difficult because it takes a lot of time for them and for you so you have to reserve it for the end of your hiring funnel
A more scalable idea is to ask people to present their homework in a recorded presentation so that they actually sign off on everything that they say and it's possible to ask them interactively later
If you go much more structured, you risk offending the highest-end talent
Other ideas? Open to the thoughts
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@rationalop11955 curious to hear @andrewchen thoughts on this
but I suspect eventually someone will come up with something amazing in consumer social + AI, we just can't see it yet. People are constantly looking for new ways to entertain themselves
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@far33d Hi do you think consumer social is done?
Feels kinda saturated, everything that has been done was done
Follower+ chronological (old insta)
Friends + chronological (olf facebook)
Followers + algorithmic (new insta)
Friends + algorithmic (sounds impossible)
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BREAKING:
Proof—a new product from @every
It’s a live collaborative document editor where humans and AI agents work together in the same doc. It's fast, free, and open source—available now at proofeditor.ai.
It’s built from the ground up for the kinds of documents agents are increasingly writing: bug reports, PRDs, implementation plans, research briefs, copy audits, strategy docs, memos, and proposals.
Why Proof?
When everyone on your team is working with agents, there's suddenly a ton of AI-generated text flying around—planning docs, strategy memos, session recaps. But the current process for collaborating and iterating on agent-generated writing is…weirdly primitive.
It mostly takes place in Markdown files on your laptop, which makes it reminiscent of document editing in 1999.
Proof lets you leave .md files behind.
What makes Proof different?
- Proof is agent-native: Anything you can do in Proof, your agent can do just as easily.
- Proof tracks provenance: A colored rail on the left side of every document tracks who wrote what. Green means human, Purple means AI.
- Proof is login-free and open source: This is because we want Proof to be your agent's favorite document editor.
Check it out now, for free—no login required:
proofeditor.ai
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@clairevo Dads: There's nothing to automate in my personal life.
Moms: Hold my beer.
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Let me list the work I do in my personal life
- order groceries
- keep track of birthdays + gifts
- plan parties
- plan trips
- keep a house in standing condition
- keep a car in standing condition
- do my taxes
- pay my bills
- invest my money
- take, organize, and share family photos
- help my kids with homework
- enrich my kids academics
- register my kids for activities
- attend and manage several kids sports teams
- keep my body healthy
- keep my kids healthy
- keep an eye on my parent's health
- cook meals
- clean + organize the house
- stay intellectually engaged / read
- exercise
- design, furnish, and organize our home
- keep plants alive
- stay engaged with the neighborhood
- stay engaged with politics
- keep up to date on the news
- repair broken things around the house
- chauffeur my kids and their friends
- price compare and purchase utilities
- make holiday magic
- order school lunches
- pick and manage charitable donations
- endless returns
yoni rechtman@yrechtman
Growing suspicion that there are vanishingly few use cases for consumer agents. People don’t do work in their personal lives. The only people who do are sf dorks using spreadsheets to plan trips to tahoe
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At Slack we had a concept of EDS - Everyone Does Support. Every person on the team was expected to read and respond to support tickets.
Now we're in the era of EDE - Everyone Does Engineering.
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@llindsell 100% the answer is yes. However, the problems of coordination you already see in large software orgs will just be amplified - who is responsible when something breaks? What if two people make conflicting changes? How do you manage the core customer experience / simplicity?
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>> FEEDBACK REQUESTED <<
Should everyone in a company be able to commit code?
Not required to do it, but have the option to do it.
Playing with this idea in my head I call "company-source software" based on the "open-source software" philosophy where a code base is collectively created by an entire organization.
Basically anyone in a company can submit a PR, but there is still tooling and approval gates before anything gets to prod. All PRs get some sort of AI-review, many get auto-rejected, some get comments and sent back, etc.
Where does this break down?
All of the problems I see seem tractable with good tooling + good process.
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We're at the point that for a lot of basic problems, it's faster to just build what's in your head than it is to research, sign up, and then test something that already exists.
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Sometimes you just have to spend the 30 minutes to build a mini-app to work through a simple problem (rethinking a bunk room)
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Genuinely curious why course architects today don't make greens nearly this good (or Winged Foot as another example). This design is well over a century old and still blows away most -- all? -- new courses.
LinksGems@LinksGems
Chicago Golf Club’s exquisite Seth Raynor greens complexes would be at home in an M.C. Escher drawing. Shapes, slopes, slants, spurs, spines, swales and shelves - these greens have it all. There are so many courses out there with wonderful, brilliant greens, but if I had to pick a favorite, these just might top the list.
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Amdahl is looking for a Founding GTM hire!
📍SF, 3 days/wk
Role spans product, customer success and marketing.
Could also be a CoS who has a background in mktg.
CEO:
@worldwide_nette has spent 10+ years in B2B2C marketing across 7 companies, 5 of which achieved hockey stick growth (10x revenue/users in <1 year) ++ Amdahl is pre-seed, post-revenue, and at the cusp of product-market-fit.
2 other co-founders, Arya and Robert, are both technical. Prev @databricks (SQL: 0->300M ARR), @coinbase (scaled infra 50x volume), @Uber, @Samsara and more.
⚫️If interested email annette@amdahl.co with your LinkedIn or Resume + job title in the subject line!
⭐️ join the @speedrun talent network: a16z-games.typeform.com/1337-talent?ut…
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@ptr I've been trying to figure out what to call "writing code"
Is it shipping?
Is it delivering?
writing doesn't feel like the right verb
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