Nabeel S. Qureshi
About me
I’m an entrepreneur, writer and researcher. I’m currently working on a startup in stealth. Previously, I worked at Palantir, and was a Visiting Scholar in AI at the Mercatus Center, as well as an Emergent Ventures awardee.
I’m interested in almost everything. Here are my favorite movies, books, and some reading lists. Here are some principles I try to keep in mind.
Selected Work
Essays
- Reflections on Palantir
- The Serendipity Machine (Notes on Using Twitter)
- Notes on Puzzles
- Moral AI (for WIRED)
- Principles
- Advice That Actually Worked For Me
- How To Understand Things
- Video Games are the Future of Education
- Notes On Karl Popper
- How To Sell
Other
- Newsletter, usually every month or two.
Podcasts
- Dialectic (with Jackson Dahl), on everything
- Lenny Rachitsky, on Palantir
- Ian Leslie, on Principles
- Better Known, with Ivan Wise
- Literature with Henry Oliver
- Dan Schulz, on movies, career, etc.
Past Projects
- Compounding Intelligence: Adapting to the AI Revolution, written as a Visiting Fellow at Mercatus.
- I worked with NIH, academia
& clinical centers to create the largest medical dataset in the world for researchers. (Link)
- I built Emergent Ventures Winners: Semantic search over every Emergent Ventures grantee. (Github has the data + code).
- A fun iPython adventure into computational genomics: Analyzing the SARS-CoV-2 Genome
Contact
Email: nabeelsqu@gmail.com
Twitter: @nabeelqu
Newsletter: Substack
More about me
- I live in Brooklyn, New York City.
- I grew up in England, and I’ve previously lived in SF and DC, as well as a one-year stint in France, and most recently spent a year fully nomadic.
- I studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Oxford, specializing in Development Economics, Derek Parfit's philosophy, and the later philosophy of Wittgenstein.
- I interned at the Bank of England in the summer of ‘08 (!) which was a dramatic introduction to central banking, quantitative easing, and financial crises.
- I led various public health projects with US federal agencies as an Enterprise Lead at Palantir Technologies, with experience in machine learning in the biosciences, public health during the COVID-19 response, and applied AI in drug discovery.
- I was also a founding employee and Vice President of Business Development at GoCardless, a Y Combinator (S11) funded company headquartered in London, now one of Europe’s biggest financial technology unicorns.