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Frédéric Renken

ROLE CO-FOUNDERMENTIONS 3LAST SEEN JULY 30, 2026
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Frédéric Renken is the co-founder of Lassie, a San Francisco-based company building AI to autonomously run small business back-office operations, starting with dental practices. He previously worked as an early product hire at Superhuman and in an engineering role at Uber. He studied mathematics and computer science at the University of British Columbia.

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mention·The a16z Show·JULY 30, 2026

"A big part of it was us actually spending the time in offices doing the work ourselves. I don't think we could have built a product that works as well as it does if we didn't know how to do the job."

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mention·The a16z Show·JULY 30, 2026

"We want to get to a sufficient level of automation across any product before we sell it. For us, that's like 95 plus. But not necessarily 100."

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hire·The a16z Show·JULY 30, 2026

Co-founder of Lassie. Former product lead at Superhuman. From Hamburg. Responsible for the technical architecture — built the context layer, tool integrations, and agent intelligence stack starting in 2020.

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