Fareed Mosavat (@far33d) / X

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

Joined March 2007

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Fareed Mosavat
@far33d
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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@far33d
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.
Robert Reich
@RBReich
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.
Fareed Mosavat
@far33d
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.
Fareed Mosavat
@far33d
Aug 11, 2023
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story
Enzo Avigo
@0zne
Aug 10, 2023
Do we still need Product Managers? @stripe’s zero-PM strategy lean toward a « no » ❌ Enters Engineering-Driven Development ↓
Readers added context
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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@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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@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.
Fareed Mosavat
@far33d
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…
Fareed Mosavat
@far33d
Dec 21, 2017
Replying to @jack
All bots, gone.
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.
Ho Nam
@honam
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
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.
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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@far33d
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_m
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…
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.
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?