Aaref Hilaly

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• Celebratory Announcement — smart avg 167.5 across 28 posts (2× typical)
• Event — smart avg 132.3 across 8 posts (1.6× typical)
• Industry Insight — smart avg 124.8 across 17 posts (1.5× typical)

Top posts

• 2024-10-08 · Celebratory Announcement1.2K eng. (1.1K likes · 89 comments · 35 shares)

  As an entrepreneur, I led Clearwell Systems -- a legal-tech company -- from $0 to $100m in ARR in 6 years. Then as an investor at Sequoia an…

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• 2025-09-29 · Personal Story957 eng. (907 likes · 41 comments · 9 shares)

  This is the kind of tenacity I love to see in a founder: our close friend Zareen Khan, of Zareen's Restaurants fame, found her delivery van …

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• 2025-04-07 · Celebratory Announcement612 eng. (524 likes · 65 comments · 23 shares)

  Image generation might be GenAI's most magical application. We saw it first from Midjourney, more recently from OpenAI Image Generator-- and…

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• 2025-03-10 · Celebratory Announcement418 eng. (393 likes · 19 comments · 6 shares)

  There's a saying in venture: it's great for a startup to be early, but not too early. No company has done a better job of striking that bala…

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• 2025-08-07 · Personal Story377 eng. (330 likes · 47 comments · 0 shares)

  Thirteen years -- and not done yet. That's the kind of irrational persistence it takes to build a lasting company. Now, with thousands of cu…

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