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Ali Afridi
2026 Posts

AI tools to turbo-charge hiring

We're hiring up aggressively at Equal and across many of our portfolio companies in 2026. As much as
05 Mar '26
2025 Posts

Market shifts in the investor zeitgeist

Insights from 150+ podcasts w/ top investors, insiders, and executives Podcasts can be an incredible medium for uncovering insight about
09 Nov '25
2025 Posts

Winning in Vertical AI: The 2 Pathways for Success

Originally published on the Equal Ventures newsletter As we highlighted in our recent Insurance x AI and Logistics x AI
07 Oct '25
2025 Posts

2025 Construction Tech Request for Startups

Where insiders would like to see more startups and innovation This post is a collaboration with Last Week in ConTech,
25 Sep '25
2025 Posts

Logistics x AI | The First Wave of Gen AI

The AI innovators transforming the U.S. logistics sector Co-authored with Chelsea Zhang & Christo Ritter. Initially posted on
21 Aug '25
2025 Posts

Insurance x AI | The First Wave of Gen AI in P&C

Co-Authored with Christo Ritter & Adam Chadroff. Initially appeared on the Equal Ventures Blog. The $800 Billion U.S.
17 Jul '25
2025 Posts

Share Donors in Retail & eCommerce

Over the last few weeks, I shared a series of posts signaling opportunities and industry shifts across the retail &
13 Mar '25
2025 Posts

The Major Forces Transforming Commerce

A couple of weeks back, we highlighted the major problems and opportunities in the retail & eCommerce industry that investors
05 Mar '25
2025 Posts

The Grand Problems & Opportunities | Retail & eCommerce Edition

This post originally appeared on The SandHill Newsletter here. It is Part 1 of a 3 part series – Part 2
20 Feb '25
2025 Posts

What to Expect from VCs if the Downturn Persists

This post originally appeared on the SandHill Newsletter here. Around this time last year, I was getting ready to re-
08 Jan '25
2022 Posts

Studying the Fastest Growing Companies

Whether you’re a founder, an operator, or an investor, studying the markets around us can be an extremely valuable
02 Feb '22
2021 Posts

Mapping the Insights that Drive Startup Ideas & Theses

Over the past 6 years, I’ve been fortunate to work across multiple VC firms that have active incubation and
14 Oct '21
2021 Posts

Mental Models for Startup & Thesis Ideation — Visual Reference Guide

A few months back, I published a compilation of 20 mental models that entrepreneurs and investors leverage to develop new
14 Jan '21
2020 Posts

Systematic Ideation for Startups & Venture Theses – Part 2

10 Sep '20
2020 Posts

Systematic Ideation for Startups & Venture Theses

This post originally appeared on Medium here As thesis-driven early-stage VCs, one of the activities that we’re
10 Sep '20
2014 Posts

How much does it really cost to build a web startup?

$1,000? $10,000? $100,000? This post originally appeared on Medium here. Earlier this year, I decided I was
17 Sep '14
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