Thank you for being a part of the Xoogler community in 2023, we grew from 14,686 members in 2022 to 30,732 members today. We had 343 events organized in-person, hybrid and online during 2023! We greatly appreciate all the organizers and speakers that made this a thriving community. You are always welcome to help organize your regional community or online around specific topics.
I hope you manage to enjoy a well deserved break over the next few days. If you’re looking to catch some inspiring insights during your down time, be sure to check out the following recordings from this year’s events or others on our YouTube channel!
Best wishes to you and yours for a joyous holiday season and all the best in 2024!
Fireside chat with Laszlo Bock on how to find your best work after Google and job hunting best practices during this market
Making the transition from Google to startup land with Qasar Younis
Managing the impact of Google's change in strategy with Nidhi Kaul
What needs to be on your resume with Eitan Sheer
The Code for High-Performance Leadership with Lexi Reese
Approaching Personal Investments & Money with Kushagra Shrivastava
Fireside chat with David Fischer
EVENTS
🇻🇳 12/30 Ho Chi Minh City meetup with Chris Fong. RSVP.
🇺🇸 🏜️1/9-12 CES Las Vegas meetup. RSVP.
💻1/10 Aligning Your Startup with strategic investors featuring Steve Femino. RSVP.
💻 🌁 1/11 Fireside chat with Yijia Liang, Investor at Coatue. RSVP.
🇦🇺 1/14 Melbourne meetup with Chris Fong. RSVP.
💻 1/18 Consumer Trends: Transforming search expressions into market opportunities, workshop & discussion with Alex Papageorgiou. RSVP.
💻 1/18 Founder traction workshop with Deb Mills-Scofield. RSVP.
🇸🇬 1/22 Fireside chat with Patrick Cao, former President of Tokopedia & co-founder of GoTo group. RSVP.
🇸🇬 1/23 Today's job market & job search best practices with Salesforce’s Clarissa Wang. RSVP.
💻🇮🇹1/23 5.30pm CET Fireside chat with Technogym & Wellness Holdings’ Edoardo Alessandri, Michele Battelli and Alessandro Durello as they discuss innovation in the wellness sector. RSVP.
💻1/25 5pm PST Career Insights fireside chat with Janel Thamkul, Deputy General Counsel at Anthropic. RSVP.
🇺🇸🌴1/26 Miami meetup with Chris Fong. RSVP.
💻🌁 1/31 5:30pm PST Fireside chat with Satya Patel, Co-founding Partner and COO of Screendoor, and Partner at Homebrew. RSVP.
🇩🇰 2/15 The Importance of Networking with David Sandberg Larsen and Niklas Fogander. RSVP.
💻🇿🇦 2/16 5pm Cape Town Meetup with Karen Walstra. RSVP.
🇩🇰 3/7 5:30pm The Future of Digital Europe with Jakob Veise-Lopes (Google 2013-2017), Digital Policy Advisor, International Affairs, Danish Ministry of Digital Government. Organized by Jonas Emiliussen. RSVP.
🌁 3/7 5pm Bay Area TGIF with Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP.
💻 Weekly startup mentorship hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP.
🌍🌡️♻️💚 Mark Grozen-Smith is building a Climate Founder Group for anyone working/founding in climate. RSVP.
TALENT
Email talent@xoogler.co if you need help to source talent. Here are some opportunities with Xoogler founded companies, email to be connected.
Ello: Engineer 🇺🇸
Flutter Flow: Enterprise Account Manager 🇺🇸 | Engineers🇧🇷 🇺🇸🇸🇬🇮🇳
Key: Marketing, Front End Engineer & Designer in Palo Alto 🇺🇸 | Program Manager in Singapore 🇸🇬
Lun: Business Development Lead 🇩🇪, Sr Product Manager 🇩🇪, Senior Frontend Engineer (Remote)
🚀 CONGRATS TO THE 24 XOOGLER DEMO DAY ONLINE FOUNDERS!
Congratulations to Ajoy Bhambani, Ala Stolpnik, Amy Yan, Eric Davich Eric Tao, Howard Peng, Jamie Byrne, Jungwoo Shin, Kris Woyzbun, Kundan Dey, Lawrence Ying, Luis Benavides, Matthew Durr, Melissa Kariuki, Michael Smith, Josephine Bromley, Rajesh Roy, Rosalyn Mahashin, Saifullah Rais, Shakeel Itoola, Shrikanth Katkurwar, Stian Hansen, Vincent Lucero and Will Xie on pitching to 400+ investors Nov 29 - Dec 15! We connected them with 300 investors via direct email introductions. Thank you Adi Kancherla, David Stiehr, Emma Weisberg, Istvan Jonyer, Ketan Kothari, Kushagra Shrivastava, Manish Kothari, Melissa Horton, Neil Ahlsten, Yoko Okano and Vibhu Mittal for mentoring the founders!
🚀 CONGRATS TO THE 11 XOOGLER DEMO DAY EMEA FOUNDERS!
Congratulations to Aleksandr Litovchenko, Antony McLoughlin, Emmanuel Abiodun Adepoju, Ivan Ryzkov, Jan De Wulf, Julianne Flesher, Leon Aarts, Lucy Clarke, Rajesh Roy and Teresa Gilman on presenting at Balderton Capital’s office on December 6 in London 🇬🇧! Thank you Sal Mohammed for organizing and David Thevenon and Rob Moffat for hosting!
💬 CHAT WITH 26,343 MEMBERS ON SLACK
Be sure to hover over channels, click on manage and go to the browse channel drop down to find other channels. Please head to #introduce-yourself to welcome our newest members!
🙏 THANK YOU
Thank you Adam Click, Adam Sah, Adi Kancherla, Ajay Moturi, Alaap Tatwawadi, Alan Noble, Alap Bharadwaj, Amit Agrawal, Andrew Yeung, Ankit Jain, Anna Buber-Farovich, Anshu Surana, Anthony DiMarco, Anthony Hernandez, Anthony Isaakidis, Arun Kumar, Asad Kassamali, Aydin Senkut, Bartek Wydrowski, Bradley Horowitz, Brandon Middleton, Brian Rabben, Bryton Shang, Carolyn Chua, Calvin Young, Catherine Lacavera, Ceaser Sengupta, Cecilia Ng, Charlene Wang, Chetta Crowley, Daniel Gilgenmann, David Bos, David Eun, David Thacker, Deepti Dayal, Deon Moh, Eng Chua, Enrico Schiattarella, Eric Chen, Eric Deng, Eric Lu, Ethan Tan, Florian Bertele, Frank Long, Gene Yoon, Gilbert Leung, Hadas Shahak, Howard Tung, James Ioannidis, Jon Kennell, Jonathan Ng, Julia Enthoven, Julien Condamines, Kazuki Notsu, Kirti Sambhus Diwan, Kishan Sachdeva, Kushagra Shrivastava, Marissa Huang, Mantas Aleks, Max Greenwald, Marc Woo, Mark Capps, Mary Minno, Max Grigorev, Michael Ma, Michael Maltese, Michael Salmon, Michael Tom, Mike Langford, Mir Tamid Ali, Mogan Shieh, Munjal Vaidya, Nallu Tarun, Kishore, Nate Dumas, Nathaniel Tucker, Navneet Singh, Neil Kapur, Nick Hays, Nithvin Leelakrishnan, Paul Huynh, Prasanna Loganathar, Purnima Kochikar, Qasar Younis, Raghu Yarlagadda, Raullen Chai, Remi Cossart, Rocio Wu, Roudra Bhattacharya, Sakina Arsiwala, Sara Zare, Sal Mohammed, Samantha Rasquinha, Samir Janveja, Sandeep Jain, Scott Hartley, Sean Mullaney, Shabih Rizvi, Sherry Jiang, Shiho Watabe, Siavash Dejgosha, Spencer Penn, Spriha Tucker, Stef Lau, Stephen Tse, Thomas Wong, Till Pieper, Tim Novikoff, Tony Zameczkowski, Vai Gupta, Vibhu Mittal, Wayne Hu, Yaniv Bernstein, Yarzar Htun, Yigit Ihlamur, Zi Wang and many others for making our community stronger in 2023 and allowing us to make it more useful for Xooglers and other alumni communities in 2024 and beyond! 🚀
Thank you and the Xoogler team for creating this amazing community for us to thrive in. Happy holidays to all of you and I look forward to 2024 with the Xoogler community.