I build great products and teams
that push the frontiers.

I'm Raaid Ahmad. Computer science during the dotcom era. Poker in the mid-2000s. Wall Street through the financial crisis. A decade in Silicon Valley through the rise of crypto, the machines, and the companies behind them. Raised and deployed a top-quartile venture fund. Now I help companies build faster with AI. Curiosity through all of it.

Raaid Ahmad

Featured Essays

AI
The New Product Team Four archetypes emerging in the AI-native product team. What replaces the PM-designer-engineer-analyst spine when execution is cheap. Feb 2026
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Where the Value Will Be If AI commoditizes execution, three things become expensive: the ability to judge, proof of origin, and willingness to guarantee. Dec 2025
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An Analytics Renaissance is Coming Most companies' data was built for humans reading dashboards. AI needs something different. The gap is where the real work is. Sep 2025
AIDecisions
Don't Outsource Your Thinking How I use AI as a sparring partner. Why the distinction from ghostwriting matters more than people think. Sep 2025
Investing
The Big Deal About Risk Parity Why allocating by risk instead of by capital changes everything about portfolio construction. Mar 2018
InvestingDecisions
The Cognitive Biases That Plague Investors A field guide to the systematic errors that cost individual investors money. With practical mitigations. May 2017
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Interactive Essays

Concepts that are hard to believe until you experience them. These essays include simulations you can run yourself.

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StatsDecisions
The Monty Hall Problem Why switching wins 2/3 of the time. Play the game and watch the stats prove it. Interactive
Systems
Schelling's Segregation Even mild preferences for similarity lead to extreme segregation. Run the model. Interactive
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The Birthday Problem Only 23 people for a 50% chance of a shared birthday. See why. Interactive
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P-Hacking How researchers find "significant" results in pure noise. Try it yourself.
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Working Together

I help companies build data infrastructure that makes AI actually work. Not the pitch-deck version. The version where your systems give reliable answers to real business questions. If that sounds like your situation, here's how we can work together.