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Habeeb Syed reposted thisHabeeb Syed reposted thisWe've seen many protest messages against Google for their complicity. But this is the first time we've seen a formal legal document putting Google and its executives personally on notice that criminal charges are possible. Check out the slides below for a summary.
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Habeeb Syed reposted thisHabeeb Syed reposted thisOn Friday, T4P is hosting a fireside chat in SF, featuring Drop Site News. Come hear about how they exposed Canary Mission, their research into the Epstein files, and much more! RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/epwUW_wz?RSVP to Fireside Chat with Drop Site News | PartifulRSVP to Fireside Chat with Drop Site News | Partiful
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Habeeb Syed reposted thisHabeeb Syed reposted thisThis was Beirut yesterday. Our tax dollars at work… No health care, no living wage, but unlimited funds for Israel to massacre civilians… The apartheid regime is systematically wiping out entire residential blocks in Lebanon’s capital — a historic city that has stood for more than 5,000 years. No military targets. Civilian homes. Lives and livelihoods destroyed. The Gaza doctrine that eviserated international law continues unabated with the help of our co-opted government.
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Habeeb Syed reposted thisHabeeb Syed reposted thisModule 1 of Palestine 101 for Kids introduces international law and explains how global rules help us understand justice, rights, and responsibility between nations. Want learn more about the video curriculum to share with your communities? Join us on Saturday Feb 28, 2-5pm at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, CA for a special screening of selection modules and live panel with our expert instructors including Dr. George Bisharat. RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/g73WEMQE
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Habeeb Syed reposted thisHabeeb Syed reposted thisLaunching Outschool at YC demo day winter 2016 was the last time I spoke at the Computer History Museum to a standing room only crowd. I was honored to do it again a couple of weeks ago kicking off the first Tech For Palestine summit. Tech For Palestine is a new organization so I was shocked (in a positive way) at the turnout and the degree of support from across tech: startups, big tech, founders, engineers, executives and investors. This is a group that can and will change the world. Do not tolerate complicit and cowardly leaders within tech. Join us at the next one.
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Habeeb Syed shared thisCome out for our happy hour tomorrow evening! Meet tech workers, entrepreneurs and other professionals and founders with a moral compass. Iva Gumnishka Autumn Alaniz-Wiggins Shahid Rashid2/12 Tech 4 Palestine Happy Hour- San Francisco | Partiful2/12 Tech 4 Palestine Happy Hour- San Francisco | Partiful
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Habeeb Syed reposted thisHabeeb Syed reposted thisA new Al Jazeera English investigation reports evidence supporting early claims during the Gaza genocide that Israel used thermal weapons which vaporized thousands of Palestinians. Unquestionably, Hitleresque. Link to article in comments.
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Habeeb Syed reposted thisHabeeb Syed reposted thisKids should learn the history of Palestine to make sense of current world affairs. The growing disillusionment with corrupt leaders in the west, the sale of TikTok US, ICE intimidation tactics and suppression of speech all have connections to recent Palestinian history and the genocide. The history exists in rigorous form in academic literature from the likes of Ilan Pappe, Rashid Khalidi and Raz Segal but now we’re going to make it available in a more accessible form. I’m delighted to share that I’ve sponsored the creation of Palestine 101 — a high-production, youth-focused video curriculum created to help young people engage the history, resistance, and national culture of Palestine with care, honesty, and humanity. The 12 module series was developed in collaboration with globally respected scholars including those I mentioned above. If you’re in the Bay Area and interested to learn more to share with your networks or use the content in your classrooms join us for an exclusive screening on Feb 28. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/g73WEMQE
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Habeeb Syed reposted thisA decade ago, as a reporter covering Venezuela's humanitarian crisis, despondent at the lack of impact of my work, I visited California's Computer History Museum and was inspired by a quote on the wall. "The best way to predict the future is to build it." (Alan Kay) That line brought me to San Francisco, got me building startups, and now diving into AI research. I'm proud to say that last month I was invited to speak about AI safety at the museum at an incredibly important event organized by Tech for Palestine, highlighting that tech is not an Elon- or Zuck-shaped monolith, but rather can be smart, nuanced, and empathetic to the world around it. Thank you to my co-panelists Bader Hamdan, Rami Al-Rfou, James H. Faghmous, Ph.D.—as well as Amir Nathoo, Paul Biggar, Habeeb Syed, and everyone else involved.
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Habeeb Syed liked thisHabeeb Syed liked thisMeet the newest addition to the team. Mild-mannered volunteer by day, Superman by... well, also by day. Doesn't he look like a low-key Clark Kent?
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Habeeb Syed liked thisHabeeb Syed liked thisAre you a founder facing a possible equity dispute? Or an investor wondering what your rights are as founders get ready to buy back shares? Imagine spending years building a company, only to be told your fully vested shares—potentially worth hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars based on the company's latest financing round—will be bought back for only a few dollars. Disputes like these can quickly become high-stakes founder equity lawsuits. Do not get stuck! Let Sutter help you before you face a nightmare. Read more about this in Tyler's Blog post: https://lnkd.in/g9maBGN3 Protect your company today and reach out to Sutter!
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Habeeb Syed liked thisToday we're announcing Feathery's $30M in funding, led by Portage alongside Allstate Strategic Ventures and Clocktower Ventures. But I want to talk about why this work is personal for me. When my dad came to the US from India, he shared a tiny apartment in Ohio with 3 other guys. He had no wealth to manage. A financial advisor took the time to understand his situation anyway, and helped him open his first retirement account when no one had ever explained one to him. That advisor stayed with him for decades. This year, my dad retired. When my favorite family run restaurant in the Mission had a bad break in, their insurance carrier helped them recover, and they reopened within weeks. This is why I've never thought of financial services as paperwork. Behind every "workflow problem" at a carrier, broker, or wealth firm is someone waiting to protect what they've built, recover from a setback, or plan for what's next. AI gives these firms a once in a generation chance to serve clients faster and more personally. At Feathery, we get to make that real for 300+ firms and the millions of clients they serve. And we're just getting started. Grateful to our customers, our investors, our partners, and especially the Feathery team. More soon :)Habeeb Syed liked thisFeathery is announcing $30M in total funding led by Portage, alongside Index Ventures, Allstate Strategic Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, Erie Insurance Group, and Bain Capital Ventures (BCV). We're scaling the AI Operations & Decisioning platform for financial services. Today, Feathery serves more than 300 firms and processes tens of millions of submissions each month. Thank you to our customers, investors, partners, and team for helping us get here. We're just getting started. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ggWCYrhf
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Habeeb Syed liked thisHabeeb Syed liked thisFour-month-old Palestinian dies after IDF delays ambulance in the West Bank It's not an accident. It's policy. The infant, Ahmad Maarouf Zaid, suffered cardiac arrest in the Deir 'Ammar refugee camp, near Ramallah, on Sunday. His parents called the Palestinian Red Crescent, which instructed them to bring the baby to the camp’s entrance, where an ambulance was waiting. They were delayed at an IDF checkpoint. Ahmad was pronounced dead in the hospital. According to the IDF, there was “an unusual gathering in the area of the village's entrance checkpoint” which it dispersed “using riot control measures.” After that, the troops had "allowed the baby and his family to pass without any delay to continue receiving medical treatment from the Red Crescent." Whether the IDF let the ambulance through immediately or forced a dying baby to wait a little longer is beside the point. The point is that Palestinians are forced to pass through an IDF checkpoint every time they enter or leave their own village. And often, it doesn’t stop there. A single trip to work, school, or a hospital may require passing through multiple checkpoints. Bakr Jihad Mousa, head of the village council: "The distance to Ramallah is normally 16 kilometers [10 miles], but because of the Israeli closures, it exceeds 70 kilometers [43 miles]". At every checkpoint, there is a risk of being delayed. As one of our testifiers shared, it happens systematically: “At the roadblocks, many times, ambulances weren't allowed to pass. [...] I tell them, ‘You need to let the ambulance through, it's allowed to pass.’ ‘No, his permit isn't here, we won't [let him pass].’ That happened at least once a week [...] The soldier at the checkpoint has power, and the commander with him there can also make that decision, and the battalion commander can decide that he doesn't care. I never saw a soldier significantly disciplined for breaching these procedures, so nobody really cared.” Checkpoints and roadblocks across the West Bank are an inseparable part of the occupation. This system is absurd and humiliating. It restricts people's ability to work, study, travel, and visit their families. And most importantly, it costs people their lives.
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Habeeb Syed liked thisHabeeb Syed liked thisI am WAY too excited about this one. 🎉 On July 20, I'm heading back to my alma mater, University of Toronto, to spend a morning with the next generation of founders out of Creative Destruction Lab, UofT & NEXT Canada. The brilliant, "I have a killer product but zero time for marketing" kind of innovators. My favorite kind! First, I'm taking founders through the stuff they hate building: a killer deck and their full product marketing suite. A product story that actually holds up under investor scrutiny, positioning that makes the "why now" obvious, market sizing that doesn't get laughed at, and yes, even those financial projection slides everyone dreads. For the brave ones, we'll review decks and product collateral submitted by founders and dig into practical opportunities for improvement, live. Bring your pitch deck. Bring your half-finished pitch deck. Bring those slides you didn't give Claude enough info to build. Bring three slides and a dream. I want to look at it, poke at it, and help you turn "I built something cool" into "here's why you need to pay attention to this." Then I'll pass the baton to Faruk Abdullah, Chief Business Officer at EVERSANA, who'll take founders ready for the next step deeper: commercialization tenets, real case studies, and a live exercise reviewing commercial strategy and models for biotech and deep tech firms. If you're building something in Toronto and would rather spend your time in the lab than in a slide deck, this is the session for you! 📅 July 20, 2026 | 10am–1pm 📍 University of Toronto 🔗 Register: bit.ly/commsuoft See you there! cc: Michael DiPaul, Chris Yip, Chelsea Peet, Michael Keoshkerian, Warren Ali, Jon French, Mike Henry #WeTheNorth #Toronto
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Habeeb Syed liked thisHabeeb Syed liked thisWe're hiring in Sales, Solutions Engineering and Marketing at Feathery! Here's why it's an especially exciting time to join: We're growing fast as the AI operating system for Wealth Management. Firms using our advisor transitions platform moved over $2B in AUM in Q1 2026 alone, and we work with firms like RFG Advisory, Allworth Financial, and Sequoia Financial Group to modernize onboarding, transitions, and account maintenance. As an AI company, our customers implement their most complex workflows, including advisor transitions, M&A integrations, and account opening, in days rather than months, and see huge ROI in faster time to funding, fewer errors, and a better experience for both advisors and clients. We value your industry expertise, and because our team is lean, there are tons of opportunities for you to own core parts of our GTM strategy in the Wealth space. We have a great team, with regular team onsites and benefits that reflect the value we place on our people. If you're part of my current network, reach out before you apply and I'm happy to put in a good word. Or please tag anyone who might be a good fit!
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