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@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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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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One of the great things about these new AI superpowers is that rote uninteresting repetitive tasks can now be executed as interesting structured puzzles to automate. It's not always faster, but my brain is happier building software vs. clicking on things.
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@joshelman "remove friction" only works if the value prop is immediate / clear OR your users are high-intent / know exactly what they want. The weirdest thing about this is that it changes over time! At Instacart, low-friction worked at first, but as we grew, higher-friction outperformed.
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@joshelman High intent products generally require longer onboarding flows for two reasons: 1. There's a high setup cost to get real value 2. You need to "prime" the user with smaller bits of value before asking them to do the "hard" thing (invite users, make an order, etc)
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Josh Elman@joshelman·
I have often said that longer (great) onboarding is better than short onboarding. joshelman.medium.com/make-your-prod… Great proof point from one of the hottest companies and acquisitions of recent times:
Jake Castillo@jakecastilloooo

2 years ago we broke a sacred app “rule” while building Cal AI and our competitors thought we were crazy We intentionally made our onboarding flow longer, which should have killed conversions…but it made them explode Every additional step we added was another opportunity to remind the user of the pain point they were experiencing and why they needed our product to help them relieve that pain Yes, fewer overall people got to the paywall But those who did usually converted The drop off in paywall rate was WELL worth the boost in conversions and retention on the backend because people who paid were more committed and intentional about their desire for change

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Howard Lindzon@howardlindzon·
I’m playing Pine Valley today I’m a 13 handicap ‘ish’ Over/under is 97. place your bets.
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@aunder I never knew him personally, only met him in passing a few times at events, but Om always felt like one of the good ones - heart and soul of the things that made tech great.
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April Underwood@aunder·
Really sad to hear of Om Malik's passing. When I met him back during my time at Twitter, I thought of him as a wise, principled, and admirable industry "elder". But here we are 15 years later and now all I can think is that he's far, far too young to be gone. Rest in peace, Om. om.co/2026/06/24/196…
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Fareed Mosavat@far33d·
"we've never written for kids, we've written for ourselves" Great product advice from Andrew Stanton (who I had the pleasure of working with on Nemo and WALL-E). As an outsider building in a market, it's important not to lose your own perspective and taste when building for a customer base.
David Perell@david_perell

Andrew Stanton is the director of Toy Story 5. He was Pixar's 2nd animator, and also directed WALL-E and Finding Nemo, which both won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. My favorite lesson from the episode is how he boils his films down to one sentence. For Nemo, it was: "Fear denies a good father from being one." For WALL-E: "Irrational love defeats life's programming." He also shared stories about Pixar's brain trust, developing characters like Nemo and Woody, and what it was like to work with Steve Jobs. Timestamps: 0:34 Don't write down to kids 4:52 Writing WALL-E 11:53 Cultivating a creative culture 17:09 How Pixar works 18:53 What makes for good dialogue? 22:02 Silent Films 23:48 Crafting Pixar characters 25:58 Working with Steve Jobs 28:47 Working with John Lasseter 34:56 Keeping audiences hooked 38:51 What makes for a good ending? 42:50 The 22 Rules of Storytelling myth 47:40 Just write the bad sentence 51:45 Pixar's brain trust 56:18 How will AI change movies? 58:04 Andrew's book recommendations I've shared the full conversation below. If you'd rather watch on YouTube, or listen on Apple / Spotify, check out the reply tweets.

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@kurlancheek I don't even talk about it in my quick bio I do for founders when they pitch. I leave it as a future easter egg.
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April Underwood@aunder·
Yesterday we drove past a golf course and I noticed a golf bag with two Poodle golf club covers. I did not know golf had developed such a sense of humor. And now I discover you can get custom covers that look like your own dog. I might take up golf just for the gear.
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Kenan Saleh
Kenan Saleh@kenanhsaleh·
a16z Speedrun is coming to Stockholm 🇸🇪 We’re excited to meet the next generation of Swedish founders and invest more in the region We're hosting a number of events from June 24 - 26. Sign up and come meet the team - links below! -- 1 - Fireside chat with @Gabriel1 and @GEVS94 at Norrsken House 2 - Office hours with @WaveVentures at Founders House 3 - Fireside chat + mixer with @KTHinnovation and @KTHAISociety at KTH Stockholm 4 - Office hours with @SSEBusinessLab at the Stockholm School of Economics 5 - Founder + builder dinner with node vc
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@micsolana sovereign wealth fund in AI companies is not a terrible idea, but the part where they "take" it vs "buy" it is
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Mike Solana@micsolana·
unclear how to persuade people who believe in outright theft away from their opinion, or if it even makes sense to try anymore. communists don’t believe in liberalism, they only believe in jailing you and taking your things. treat them as you would a home invader.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill to have the public take a 50% ownership stake in the country's biggest AI companies. The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would have the government tax AI companies, take 50% of the stock, and put it under public control.

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Adarsh Kumarappan@adarshk123321·
What if we could fix AI agents that cave to peer pressure? We found the problem isn't caused by the safety training everyone blames. It's baked in during pretraining, and we built a simple structural fix that holds up across four model families. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2605.12991 💻 github.com/Adarsh321123/n… 1/8
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Fareed Mosavat@far33d·
@illscience Every time we add a new layer to the abstraction stack, the people who understand the old layer deeply while embracing the new layer end up with superpowers.
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Anish Acharya@illscience·
the class of 2026 is being underestimated - the best of them are ambitious enough to work on the most important dynamism / ai research / business problems, are fluent in working with machine intelligence and are entering the workforce during a positive technology cycle, and at a time when the stock market is at an all time high the “olds” who came before them are going through the same moral panic that they always have, namely that these engineers aren’t doing “real” technical work - machine code programmers lamented about assembly, assembly programmers about C, C programmers about C++, and god forbid you should be a java programmer that doesn’t know how to manage memory plus there is a flattening of organizations that should really benefit new graduates - more IC work, less clumsy or poorly trained middle managers on whom your career growth tragically depends what i'd tell a new grad right now: - trust your weird interests. soundcloud and calm were both founded in the five years after i dismissed music and meditation as "not serious markets." - say the thing, do the thing. be the founder in the room. you don't need permission to have a point of view, now more so than ever. - use every product obsessively.. intuition compounds and getting there 3 months early is a lifetime right now the kids are gonna be alright!
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Theo Jaffee@theojaffee·
Why didn't Anthropic just price their round at $1T for aura farming purposes?
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