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Frederick Schrader

Co-founder, Lassie. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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According to the podcast recording, he is a co-founder of Lassie working on product architecture and engineering. However, public records for the company and episode do not confirm a person by this name.

What they said4 Shows1

Everything Frederick Schrader said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

a16z Insight

Schrader: SMBs lack dedicated staff to operate software tools

“A huge difference between SMBs in general and enterprises is that in SMBs there's nobody to use the tools. Like you can build a tool, but there's nobody sitting there that's going to use it.”

Frederick Schrader Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 18:21 “Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z

a16z Disclosure

Schrader: Lassie ships products at 95% automation rather than 100%

“We want to get to like a sufficient level of automation across any product to before we sell it. So, you know, for us, I think that's like, 95 plus, say, but not necessarily a hundred. Like, I don't think we're going to wait until we get into to a hundred with…”

Frederick Schrader Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 19:20 “Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z

a16z Insight

Schrader: Onboarding non-ICP customers is more painful for AI labor products

“If we onboard the wrong practice and say we can't actually automate that much of their work, then now we're kind of stuck with this customer that you know, we claim we're going to automate a bunch of labor for them. We can't do it. Are we going to do it? Are w…”

Frederick Schrader Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 36:54 “Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z

a16z Insight

Schrader: LLMs lack embedded operational workflows despite massive training data

“The models are trained on so much data and they're so large and yet they actually don't really know how to do any of this work. Like they don't have the workflows encoded in any way.”

Frederick Schrader Jul 29, 2026 ▶ 46:49 “Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Frederick's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	Co-founder, Lassie	1	4	—	full record on the a16z Podcast →