Nabeel S. Qureshi
I'm an entrepreneur, writer and researcher. I'm currently working on a startup in stealth. Previously, I worked at Palantir with a focus on health and biology related projects. I was also a Visiting Scholar in AI at the Mercatus Center, as well as an Emergent Ventures awardee. I studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Oxford, and am currently based in New York City.
Here are my favorite movies, books, and some reading lists. Here are some principles I try to keep in mind.
Essays
- On Reading Proust’s In Search of Lost Time · Dec 2025
- Reflections on Palantir · Oct 2024
- The Serendipity Machine (Notes on Using Twitter) · Jan 2024
- Notes on Puzzles · Jul 2023
- Advice That Actually Worked For Me · Jul 2022
- How To Understand Things · Jul 2020
- Video Games are the Future of Education · Jun 2020
- Notes On Karl Popper · Jan 2020
- How To Sell · Jan 2020
Other Writing
- Rented Virtue, with Will Manidis · Feb 2026
- Moral AI (for WIRED) · May 2023
- Newsletter, usually every month or two.
Selected 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
Interviews
| Title | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Lenny's Podcast | May 2025 | I spoke to Lenny Rachitsky about Palantir and engineering culture |
| Dialectic | Mar 2025 | I spoke to Jackson Dahl about everything |
| The Ruffian | Mar 2025 | I spoke to Ian Leslie about principles for living |
| Better Known | Oct 2024 | I spoke to Ivan Wise about AI, education, and startups |
| The Common Reader | Sep 2024 | I spoke to Henry Oliver about Proust, literature, and reading |
| Dan Schulz | Mar 2024 | I spoke to Dan about movies, career, and GoCardless |
More about me
- 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.
- At Oxford I specialized 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.