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News, Upcoming Events, and Resources for the Xoogler Community
🗞 News
🎊 Happy New Year! We hope you enjoyed the holidays! Thanks to the amazing volunteer organizers there were 312 events and the community grew to over 9,300 members in 2020. We hope you get more involved and get more out of the community in 2021! Join the conversations on slack.
A new exotic investments club is launching, Sandeep Jain has launched the Talent Network for Xooglers (email talent@xoogler.co for early access) and Xoogler Ventures (backed by Google’s early investor, Google executives & Xooglers) has started to make its first investments to support early stage Xoogler startups.
December’s USA Demo Day featured 16 Xoogler startups. Congrats to the founders Alex Kolchinski, Jacquelle Horton, Tim Desmond, Prathima Rao, Ben Colman, Denys Grabchak, Laurens Feenstra, Deniz Binay, Deepa Vivekanandan, Zi Wang, James Chance, Julia Carter, Krzysztof Kulewski, Dan Daugherty, Daniel Tran and a presenter still in stealth! Check out the presentations here. If you are an angel investor, email demoday@xoogler.co to access the investment details.
🎓 Following Xoogler School, many of the students immediately applied what they have learned. Thank you to the 267 mentors that signed up to educate these students during the uncertainty of the pandemic and rise in students taking a gap year.
“The opportunities that Xoogler School helped me pursue were just the beginning of what I have taken away from this program; I feel more confident and hopeful about my career path and future.” - Yara Sevilla, a rising junior at Stanford. Yara obtained a PM internship at Zoom using what she learned about cold messaging in the Xoogler School.
“Xoogler School taught me to be bold, curious, and ever-growing. I startup off not wanted to submit a video introduction application and ended the program comfortable doing live-streamed Q&A sessions.” - Tamara Mmbuka, a graduate at UCLA. Tamara received a Digital Inclusion Internship at the International Rescue Committee following Xoogler School.
These are two of the thirteen students who worked together to publish Navigating Your Career, a book compiling all of what the students learned during Xoogler School. It is a great resource for 16-24 year olds or those new to tech. Available now on Amazon!
🗓 Upcoming Events
Add the official Xoogler.co Events Calendar to your Google Calendar
Jan: Being a Tech Leader in the US Government hosted by Devika Daga. RSVP
1/12 2pm PST: Mentoring by Kazuki, Yiğit, Matt, and Noah. RSVP
1/13 12pm CEST: Berlin Online Meetup. RSVP
1/13 5:30pm MST: Colorado Xooglers: Toast the New Year and "How We're Doing It" talk (with a special guest!). RSVP
1/14 5pm PST: a16z’s Connie Chan will be sharing what Andreessen Horowitz is excited about and tips on fundraising from them. Moderated by Insiya Lokhandwala. RSVP
1/18 6pm PST: Angels & Investment Syndicate Q&A with Ankit & Chris. RSVP
1/19 5pm GMT: 5 Science-Based Steps to Become More Resilient with Pamela Wagner. RSVP
1/19 2pm PST: Mentoring by Kazuki, Yiğit, Matt, and Noah. RSVP
1/20 10am AEST: Stories from the first Google Australia employee, Kate Vale. RSVP
1/21 5pm PST: Women's Happy Hour & Fireside Chat with Claire Wasserman, Hosted by Nadine Shelton. RSVP
1/21 6pm PST: AMA with tech reporter Lora Kolodny (off the record). RSVP
1/26 2pm PST: Mentoring by Kazuki, Yiğit, Matt, and Noah. RSVP
1/27 6pm PST: Autonomous Vehicles Meetup with Moh. RSVP
1/28 5pm PST: Global TGIF by Yiğit, Kazuki featuring Tom Siegel founder and VP of Trust & Safety team at Google to share Trust & Safety 101, his journey and product RSVP
1/30: Sydney Wine Tasting Tour. RSVP
2/2 6pm PST: LA Meetup with David. RSVP
2/9 5pm PST: Fireside chat with VMware’s CMO Carol Carpenter moderated by Francois Olivier Grisel, Senior Director, Growth Marketing at Figma organized by Veronique. RSVP
2/10 5pm PST: Mastermind by Yiğit, Kazuki : Cracking Go-To-Market for Developer-Focused Startups. led by Amir and Danel RSVP
2/17 5pm PST: Fireside Chat with Laura Borghesi, VP of Growth at Gympass. RSVP
🚀 Talent
Xoogler Consulting Co. Complete list of job opportunities. Find a co-founder. Submit an open role. Email talent@xoogler.co to access the talent platform.
Email for a warm intro to any of the following opportunities.
SF, Austin & Remote: Wilbur Labs is a startup studio turning bold ideas into market-leading companies. They are hiring for an EIR, Senior PM & SEO Manager.
SF & Remote: Newfront (YC W18) is transforming the $500B+ commercial insurance market through technology. Since starting 3 years ago, they've grown to ~200 people & are hiring for an Eng Manager, Tech Lead, & Sr Product Designer. Email their CTO/Co-Founder Gordon Wintrob to learn more.
Mexico, SF & Remote: Cerby is a cybersecurity company focused on helping you harness Shadow IT. They are looking for engineers. The founder sold his prior company for $440M.
SF & Bangalore: FalconX recently announced a funding round by American Express Ventures and $3 Billion per Month in Transaction Volumes. They have openings for a Head of Compliance, Institutional Coverage, Quantitative Trader, Trade Operations, Security Engineer & other roles.
SF: Kapwing is an online image, video, and GIF editing platform. Our mission is to enable digital storytelling. Looking for SWE, Sr UX Designer, Sr PM & Director of Kapwing for EDU.
SF & Remote: BuildBuddy is taking the world class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and making them available to everyone. Hiring Engineers.
Hawaii, Colorado, or US Remote: Warmly aims to end cold outreach altogether by showing you the shortest-path warm intro into any company you want to sell to, and the number of hops it takes to get there. Hiring for an Account Executive, Engineers, Sales, and Data Operations Manager.
Mountain View, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Seoul, Munich, Detroit, LA, Washington DC: Applied Intuition helps companies comprehensively test and rapidly accelerate their autonomous vehicle development. They are hiring for Product, Business Functions, Design, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing roles.
Sydney, Colombo & US: Different, Sydney based PropTech company is hiring for product and engineer roles in Sydney and Colombo. In addition, they are looking for a CEO for their US business. Started by Uber’s first PM & ex-Softbank.
🛠Resources
Slack - Login and ask the community for help! 7,000+ members have signed up
Stripe - Fee-free processing credits and free company incorporation
HubSpot - Eligible companies can receive up to 30% off Year 1
Freelancers and Solopreneurs Directory - Connect with others here
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