Fareed Mosavat

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@far33d

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

Berkeley, CA fareedmosavat.com 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 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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Fareed Mosavat @far33d 3d

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

Jason Spinell Verified account @jcspinell 4d

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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Fareed Mosavat @far33d Oct 30

100% the case.

One way to think about this - a career is a portfolio of 5-10 investments where you invest your most valuable resource, your time. Your returns are what you learn, the network you build, and of course, the money you make.

Choose wisely.

Tom Hammer 🔨 Verified account @tmhammer Oct 30

dunno why it took me so long to figure this out, but if you want to build a career in startups, being good at picking the team you work w is more important than everything else

you'd obviously rather be an early IC at the "right" company than an exec at the "wrong" one
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Fareed Mosavat @far33d Oct 29

I sat down with our team to tell stories from Pixar, Instacart, Slack, and of course, speedrun.

After building for 20+ years with some of the greatest founders and CEOs in the world, I'm here to discover and support the next wave of world-class founders.

speedrun @speedrun Oct 29

NEW: INVESTOR SPOTLIGHT WITH FAREED MOSAVAT

@far33d went from working on blockbuster Pixar hits to leading growth at Slack, and now backs founders at speedrun. He sat down with us to talk about:

00:55 - what a Pixar film teaches you about building a startup
04:13 - films vs. startups: why customers have to be in the loop
06:05 - Slack’s free-to-paid assumption that turned out wrong
07:46 - the app store review that changed Slack’s monetization
10:34 - why he joined speedrun
13:30 - product-market fit and “heat-seeking” founders
14:11 - why he’s bearish on cold email

SR008 apps close Nov 1. Watch the full interview here 👇

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Fareed Mosavat @far33d Oct 27

Here's the thing about agents.

There's no upper bound.

In every market there's some max # of humans in your ICP, but there's an infinite number of possible agents.

Han Wang Verified account @handotdev Oct 27

Docs traffic across Mintlify grew ~10x from Sept 2025 to Sept 2026: 45M → 444M monthly views.

Human traffic: 3x
Agent traffic: 135x
MCP: 4.4M+ monthly tool calls, up 53x

An estimated 60% of September’s doc changes were agent-written.

Agents are reading and writing the docs, not just code.

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