Now · MIT Sloan · scaling Pangea · Cambridge, MA

I build marketplaces,
AI products, and
founder communities.

I’m Adam Alpert — applied AI engineer, founder, and MIT Sloan MBA. I started a company in a dorm room, took it through Y Combinator, and I’ve been building at the intersection of technology and human connection ever since.

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Affiliations & backersYY Combinator · W21MMIT Sloan · MBA '27BBrown · History '17PPangea.app · Founder & CEO
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What I believe, mostly without flinching.

01
The future of work is fractional.
AI makes small teams more powerful than large organizations. The best talent wants flexibility, autonomy, and the ability to work on multiple things at once.
02
Distribution beats product.
The companies that win aren't the ones with the best features — they're the ones with the best networks and the deepest trust.
03
Real communities can't be built in a feed.
Curated, in-person, high-trust networks are the antidote to algorithmic isolation — and they'll become more valuable, not less, in an AI-first world.
04
Ship fast, then systematize.
Get to market, learn from actual customers, then build the systems to scale what works. Not the other way around.
Open for conversation

If you’re building something ambitious, let’s talk.

Marketplaces, AI-native products, founder communities, hiring, fundraising. Or just to compare notes. I read every email.