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๐ฅ๐ฌ Kushagra Shrivastava (Google 2006-14) is hosting Yusuf Goolamabbas, Chief Knowledge Officer and ex-CTO of Animoca Brands online ๐ป at 5:30pm PDT & In-Person in Palo Alto ๐บ๐ธ 5pm PDT on August 6, join in as they discuss the latest in AI!
๐๐ฐ๐ป Rajan Anandan (Google India & SEA VP 2011-19) now leads Peak XVโs (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA) Surge, their seed platform for company builders. Join us on August 6 at 6pm PDT / August 7 9am SGT as he shares the benefits of the program which includes receiving up to $3 million in seed funding. The program is open for all founders ๐.
๐ ๐ป 8/16 Join Google Corp Devโs Frank Lin for the fireside chat with EQLโs CEO/Co-Founder Andrew Lipp.
โ๏ธ๐ฐ The organizers for Xoogler Women is looking for Xoogler women who want to talk openly about a traditionally taboo topic: MONEY! Are you passionate about money as a founder, CFO, solopreneur? Or are you especially savvy with building personal wealth and independence? We're looking for experts within the community to share their money wins and insights with us as we craft these events. Fill out this form to express interest!
๐ Parents, let your kids' school or PTA know aboutย Super Teacher for Schools. Every child can now have access to unlimited private tutoring, with Super Teacher. Email Tim Novikoff.
๐งณ Abel Mengistu, CEO/Co-Founder of FlutterFlow is hiring in the US ๐บ๐ธ, Canada ๐จ๐ฆ, India ๐ฎ๐ณ, Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ, Latin America & Remote ๐. Review the openings and email talent@xoogler.co to be connected and reach out to get assistance to hire Xooglers!
CONNECT
Would you play a game like this? Email Derrick Xin (ex-Google Research) with feedback. Heโs making a game ๐ฎ where LLMs power spell and world generation
Are you interested in joining a Xoogler that was at Google 2000-2009? Heโs looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer (Finetuning) and a Platform Software Engineer. Email talent@xoogler.co.
Reach out if you have a 2-4 person team and want to rent a space with fellow Xooglers in Palo Alto.
๐งณ Founders and CEOs - are you interested in a one-stop-shop consultancy for transformation? Struggling to scale, hit profitability, build high-performing teams, or simply putting some wins on the board? Anna Buber (Google 2011-2020) has been working with Founders, CEOs, and Boards to transform winning businesses into global unicorns, and we're looking to help our community founders and executives win. Email Chris to learn more.
๐ Congratulations to all the Xoogler Demo Day startups from EMEA ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ซ๐ท ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ฌ๐ท ๐ฟ๐ฆ that presented on July 2! You can reach out to Benoit from Referly, Stacie from Haiper, Victor from Fleevo, Ayode from Mercurie, Sebastien from Hioosh, Jean-Marc from Bbalance, Yiannis from Nous, Shenai from Amzify, Chris from Key, Clement from Vikit or Oliver from Rejoy to learn more. Thank you ๐ Sal Mohammed for organizing the Demo Day!
LEARN
Rahul Pandey from Taro recently spoke to the Xoogler community. Hereโs some insights on how you can ace your technical interviews. Learn more here.
Use your Google experience aggressively to get referrals, getย interviews at a higher rate, and benefit from "assumed competence."
Organize and track your job searchย - Every successful job search is split up into the 2 overall steps ofย "Get interviews"ย andย "Pass interviews". It's crucial to figure out which step you're struggling with as the solutions for each phase are wildly different. If your conversion rate from application -> interview opportunity is less than 5%, that's a sign that you need to improve at theย "Get interviews"ย step.
Have the right mentalityย -ย Do not view interviews as a "make or break" opportunity, even if they are!ย Go into every interview relaxed and view it as a fun learning opportunity where you get to hang out with very talented engineers. Having the wrong mentality is one of the most common reasons engineers fail FAANG interviews.
EVENTS
All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if youโre interested in organizing an event!
๐ป 8/6 9am PDT Xooglers in Climate Monthly Introduction Call. RSVP.
๐ ๐ป 8/6 5pm PDT TGI-AI featuring Yusuf Goolamabbas, Chief Knowledge Officer and ex-CTO of Animoca Brands. RSVP.
๐ป 8/6 6pm PDT Surge is PeakXVโs (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA) seed platform for company builders. Join us to learn more from Googleโs former VP of India & SEA, Rajan Anandan who is responsible for the program, (deadline is on 8/16). RSVP.
๐ป 8/7 9am PDT Join this information session with Taylor Marcus if youโre considering applying to the Berkeley SkyDeck Accelerator Program. RSVP.
๐ป 8/7 6pm PDT Panel Discussion: Data Analytics in the Gen AI Era with Tam Le. We will have VC perspective from Alejandra Vergara of Bee Partners and startup perspective from Rahul Bali of Arcwise. RSVP.
๐ป ๐ต 8/9 6pm PDT Personal Finance meetup. Discuss investment strategies during a volatile market. RSVP.
๐ซ๐ท 8/12 Meetup after the Paris Olympics with Paul Huynh. RSVP.
๐ โป๏ธ 8/13 6:45pm SF Climate Dinner with Mark Grozen-Smith. RSVP & Sign up for the Global Climate Community.
๐ธ๐ฌ 8/14 6:30pm Augie Ilag is sharing what needs to be in a startup pitch from his experience evaluating startups from Sequoia Capital and CMT Digital. Check out his prior presentation to the Xoogler community here. RSVP
๐ฌ๐ง 8/15 6:30pm London Drinks with Sal Mohammed. RSVP.
๐ป ๐ฆ๐บ 8/16 12pm AEST Fireside Chat with Andrew Lipp, CEO/Co-Founder of EQL moderated by Google Corp Devโs Frank Lin. RSVP.
๐ธ๐ฌ 8/21 6:30pm Drinks hosted at Monkโs Brew Club sponsored by SGN. RSVP.
๐ 8/21 6pm LA Meetup (Culver City) with Howard Park. RSVP.
๐ โป๏ธ 8/21 6:30pm SF Climate Founders Dinner with Mark Grozen-Smith, sponsored by JPMC. RSVP & Sign up for the Global Climate Community.
๐ฉ๐ฐ 8/22 5:30pm Copenhagen Wine Tasting with Jonas Emiliussen and Peter Holt Theisen. RSVP.
๐ฎ๐ช ๐ป 8/26 7pm Ireland Virtual Meetup. RSVP.
๐ป 8/27 6pm PDT Velocity program for startups (deadline is 9/10) with Village Globalโs Anne Dwane. RSVP.
๐ธ๐ฌ 8/29 5pm Join the Singapore community for Happy Hour at Mortonโs. RSVP.
๐ป 8/28 5pm PDT Climate Founders Series with Cynthia Wu. RSVP.
๐ป 8/29 12pm PDT EdTech Monthly Virtual Meetup. RSVP.
๐ป 8/29 7pm PDT ๐บ๐ธ | 8/30 7:30am IST ๐ฎ๐ณ | 8/30 10am SGT ๐ธ๐ฌ | 8/30 11am JST ๐ฏ๐ต | 8/30 12pm AEST ๐ฆ๐บ Xoogler New Member Onboarding. RSVP.
๐จ๐ฆ 9/5 6pm Toronto Area (Kitchener-Waterloo) Meetup. RSVP.
๐ 9/10 5pm Mountain View Healthcare Panel at Fenwick. RSVP.
๐ 9/12 6pm Orange County Meetup with Nicole Tsai. RSVP.
๐ 9/24 4:30pm Chicago Meetup with Becky Thalmann. RSVP.
๐ 10/10 5pm Palo Alto TGIF and AI Researcher Fireside Chat. Join us for an exclusive TGIF and fireside chat with a world-wide well-known AI researcher (Trevor Darrel). Hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur.ย RSVP.
๐ป Weekly startup mentorship hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur.ย RSVP.
TALENT
Email talent@xoogler.co if you need help to source talent. Here are some opportunities, email to be connected.
Applied Intuition has 100+ job openings. You can view their CTOโs fireside chat with the community here. ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ช ๐ฐ๐ท ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ธ๐ช
Flutter Flow: Head of People Ops, Technical Program Manager, Technical Writer Software Engineer ๐บ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐ง๐ท
Gamma: Senior Backend Engineer, AI Engineer, Staff Frontend Engineer in San Francisco ๐บ๐ธ
Key: Senior Engineering in Ahmedabad ๐ฎ๐ณ, Growth Marketer ๐บ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฌ, Growth marketer in Palo Alto ๐บ๐ธ and a recruiter that can work US hours ๐
Fintech Stealth Startup in Dubai ๐ฆ๐ช & Bangalore ๐ฎ๐ณ looking for an ex-consultant with 3-7 years of experience