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SUPPORT YOUR XOOGLER COMMUNITY

Have you enjoyed Xoogler events or benefited from the community since our founding in 2015? We have not charged any membership fees and are supported by the generosity ❤️ of this community. Please consider donating to Xoogler which is now under a non-profit foundation to enable US taxpayers to receive a tax deduction before Dec 31, 2024. Here is the link to donate.

RECONNECTING YOU WITH MORE XOOGLERS

📈 With our community growing to over 30,000 members we need a better way to connect Xooglers with each other e.g. Slack messages expire and there isn’t a membership directory for you to understand who is in the community.

You can sign up for early access for our new community platform here, we welcome your feedback and how it can be more useful to you 🙏.

In addition, as you consider your plans for 2025, I’d like to offer this opportunity for you to volunteer for Xoogler to reconnect with more Xoogler members and grow professionally. Since our founding we’ve witnessed the incredible power of our community. From landing dream jobs to launching successful startups, from finding mentors to becoming investors – the impact has been remarkable.

There’s been growing requests to create focused interest groups within our community. Many of you have stepped up to organize local meetups, lead functional groups, and drive impact-focused initiatives. It's time to take this energy to the next level! 🚀 We're looking for and helping passionate leaders to build and run dedicated interest groups around three key areas:

1. Geographic Chapters - Perfect for those who want to strengthen local Xoogler networks or are recent transplants. Thank you to longstanding leaders like Stef Lau in NY, Hadas Shahak Ben-Horin in Seattle, Alex Ausch in Toronto, Anthony Hernandez in Miami, Till Dietrich in Hamburg and Sal Mohammed in London.

2. Professional Tracks - Ideal for those who want to deepen functional expertise (e.g. AI, Engineering Communities, PM Networks, Marketing Collectives, Sales Networks, Design Groups, Operations Teams, etc.). Thank you to Max Greenwald for your leadership with the APM community, Navneet Singh and Kushagra Shrivastava for organizing the TGI-AI series and Yiğit Ihlamur and Kazuki Notsu for organizing the masterclasses, mentoring, TGIF and Tokyo meetups.

3. Special Interest Groups - Great for those passionate about specific causes or interests, such as climate, education innovation, Web3, healthcare technology, family life, career transitions, FIRE, digital nomad, Y Combinator applications and more. Thank you Nathaniel Dumas, Veronique Lafargue, Mark Grozen-Smith and Ankit Jain for your leadership in the Education, Climate and YC Application groups.

Why Lead a Group?

• Make meaningful impact in areas you care about

• Build valuable professional relationships

• Create opportunities for others

• Expand your influence and give back

Please share your details here to learn more about these opportunities.

JOBS

🙌 Xoogler has a recruiter for the community to assist with hiring:

• If you’re looking to hire xooglers, your company has a recruiter or your VC firm has a talent partner, email to be connected to start hiring from the community.

• If you’re open to a new role, please fill in this form for the recruiter to consider your background for openings.

🧳 Tier 1 VC funded startup is looking for a full stack founding engineer, AI in SME space.

🧳 Abel Mengistu, CEO/Co-Founder of FlutterFlow is hiring in the US 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, India 🇮🇳, Singapore 🇸🇬, Latin America & Remote 🌍. Review the openings and email talent@xoogler.co to be connected.

🧳 Are you interested in joining a Xoogler that was at Google 2000-2009? He’s looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer (Finetuning) and a Platform Software Engineer. Email talent@xoogler.co.

OPPORTUNITIES

Roth IRAs for Kids: Learn how thousands of parents in the US are leaving $5m+ tax-free for each of their children using Roth IRAs for minors. Compare to college 529 and UTMA/UGMA accounts, and hear from the team at Mora that helps parents plan for this estate & tax strategy. Learn more on December 17.

Speaking in Malaysia & Southeast Asia: Are you interested in sharing your expertise with companies and government agencies in Southeast Asia? If so, share your interest here.

X Studio: We are announcing a 90 day program for startup founders to ideate, validate, and build a business. The program is stage agnostic. Whether you have an idea, have written an app and need help with GTM or anything in between we will partner with you and unblock to build a successful venture. You will be guided with successful startup founders, VCs and experts. To learn more sign-up here.

Expert Network: Xooglers are subject matter experts and widely sought after. If you are willing to spend time to help our members in their journey please sign-up here to learn more about the Expert Network marketplace. Whether it's Applied AI, Revenue Ops, Coaching or GTM all disciplines are welcome to apply. Once verified, you can elect to offer services for a fee or pro bono.

Venture Fellows: Xoogler Ventures is seeking 2 Venture Fellows for 2025 to help partners with deal flow, opportunity assessment portfolio management, marketing and more. This is great opportunity to learn about the world of Venture Capital. Background in Corp Dev or Strategy are strongly preferred. If interested, please apply here.

🚀 Ankit Jain has organized feedback for Xooglers applying for Y Combinator from Xoogler YC alumni. Email him to get feedback on your application and prepare for your interview.

WATCH

Don’t miss out on the learnings and practical insights to shared by Anna Buber, Toby Berger and Deepti Dayal and determine if fractional work is right for you.

EVENTS

All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event! Thank you Jeremy Rome, Till Dietrich, Alex Ausch for organizing events in Berlin 🇩🇪 , Hamburg 🇩🇪 and Toronto 🇨🇦 earlier this month.

💻♻️ 12/10 9am PST Climate Monthly Introduction Call RSVP.

🇸🇬 12/11 6:30pm Singapore Holiday Party. RSVP.

💻♻️ 12/12 8am PST | 11am EST | 4pm GMT Net Zero Angels Demo Day for Xoogler-led Climate Startups. RSVP.

💻 12/12 12pm PST | 3pm EST Fireside Chat with Catherine Chin, Co-founder & CEO of Odyseek on “Perfecting Your Resume and Value Story” moderated by Maciej Szczepaniak. RSVP.

🌁 12/13 5pm Bay Area Holiday Gathering hosted by Catherine Lacavera and Kushagra Shrivastava. RSVP.

🇮🇳 12/15 4:30pm Bangalore Meetup at Indihood featuring Rachna Agarwal, Raghunath Raghunath, Lalitesh Katragadda and Manu Rekhi. RSVP.

💻 12/17 10am PST Webinar with Ali Moiz: Tax savings for kids via custodial Roth IRAs. RSVP.

🇸🇬 12/18 6:30pm Singapore Monthly Drinks hosted by Alaap Tatwawadi. RSVP.

🌁 💻 12/18 5pm PDT Palo Alto & Online TGI AI featuring Vibhu Mittal (Google 2000-09), CTO of Inflection AI. RSVP.

💻 12/19 7pm PST 🇺🇸 | 10pm EST 🇺🇸 | 12/20 8:30am IST 🇮🇳 | 12/20 11am SGT 🇸🇬 | 12/20 12pm JST 🇯🇵 | 12/20 2pm AEDT 🇦🇺 New Member Onboarding. RSVP.

🇯🇵 12/19 5pm Japanese Xoogler TGIF (year end party) at Google Campus hosted by Kazuki Notsu. RSVP.

🇻🇳 12/30 9pm Ho Chi Minh City Drinks. RSVP.

♀️💻 1/14 9am PST | 12pm EST Women@Xoogler.co: Set Your Intentions for 2025 with Megan Hellerer. RSVP.

♀️💻 1/16 9am PST | 12pm EST Women@Xoogler.co Money Talk: Kids & Money Panel. RSVP.

🌁 1/16 12pm Founders Meetup with Maarten Hooft hosted by Ankit Jain. RSVP.

🇫🇷 1/23 6:30pm Paris Meetup organized by Perrine Daumont. RSVP.

🌁 2/25 5pm Fireside chat with Bradley Horowitz. RSVP.

💻 Startup mentorship organized by Yiğit Ihlamur and Kazuki Notsu. RSVP.

RECHARGE AND REBUILD DURING THE HOLIDAYS

Consider updating your resume during the down time. You can check out these tips from Applied Intuition’s Eitan Sheer

And here’s something to reflect on from Google’s former GCAS President, Kirk Perry. Consider your job’s bigger purpose is about the human beings you get to interact with at work than the things you do at work. How can you help lift each other up and help each other achieve their personal ambitions and dreams.

Thank you for reading and please share your feedback on the content you’ve enjoyed and what you want to read less of or more of in 2025.