About

Founder, builder, operator.

I’ve been building things since I was a kid filming videos with a cheap HD camera and posting them online. That instinct — to take an idea, make it real, and share it with people — has shaped almost everything since.

Started Pangea out of my Brown dorm room. Took it through early-stage Rhode Island and Y Combinator W21. Built founder communities in New York and Cambridge. Now digging deeper into systems, AI, and strategy at MIT Sloan.

Adam AlpertCambridge · 2026
/ THE LONG VERSION

Six chapters, in order.

01
1995–2013

Upbringing

Early creativity, family, and the first instinct that I could just make things and put them out into the world.

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02
2013–2017

Brown University

History at Brown, NOLS Alaska, and the first version of what would become Pangea.

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03
2017–2020

Rhode Island & Early Pangea

Post-grad in Providence, turning a student project into a real company.

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04
2021

Y Combinator

W21, $125K, and three months that compressed years of learning into a season.

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05
2021–2024

New York & Scaling Pangea

Moving to NYC, building a remote-first team, and scaling the marketplace through pivots.

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06
2025–

MIT Sloan & Cambridge

Going back to school. Media Lab, the $100K, and Cambridge Founders Club on top of the ecosystem.

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/ TIMELINE

A roughly chronological pass.

StoryBuildAdventure
1995
Upbringing — kid filmmaker, first experimentsstory
2013
Start at Brown Universitystory
2015
NOLS Alaska expeditionadventure
2017
Graduate Brown, go full-time on Pangeastory
2020
Accepted into Y Combinator (W21)story
2021
Move to NYC, scale Pangeastory
2022
Launch NYC Founders Clubbuild
2024
NYC Founders Club paid membershipbuild
2025
Head of Product at Reprallybuild
2025
Start MIT Sloanstory
2025
Launch SurviveAIbuild
2025
Launch Clawviyobuild
2025
Launch MyLogiabuild
2025
Cambridge Founders Clubbuild
2025
Launch Friend Roulettebuild
2026
Cotopaxi summitadventure
/ OUTSIDE

Why I keep returning to the mountains.

NOLS Alaska
NOLS Alaska2015

40 days in the Alaskan wilderness

Cotopaxi
Cotopaxi2026

Summit attempt on Ecuador's highest volcano

Ski & Outdoor
Ski & OutdoorOngoing

Mountains as a recurring theme