Xoogler.co: OpenAI | White House Digital Strategy Director | APAC & SF Demo Days
TOP STORIES
🚀 Kushagra Shrivastava and Christopher Fong are hiring engineers, a community operations manager/associate and product analysts in Palo Alto and Bangalore to support and expand the community. Email to learn more and sign up to be an early tester!
🫶 After seeing the impact of the layoffs on the different tech communities, we’re helping other tech alumni leaders start their communities. The ex-Amazon community is launching soon. Reach out to be part of it and the other communities.
UPCOMING FEATURED TALKS
🔥 7/18 (APAC) & 7/17 (Americas): Sign up here for How to get into Venture Capital with Rohit Agarwal from Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia.
🔥 7/19 (APAC) & 7/18 (Americas): Sign up here for Startup Founding and Fundraising Best Practices featuring early stage founders Marshall Silver from DekatKita, Auston Quek from Waffle and Milan Reinartz from Ascend Angels hosted at Singapore’s Google Developer Space and online.
📈 7/20 (Americas) & 7/21 (APAC): Sign up here for How Arta is opening up private banking for everyone with Caesar Sengupta (ex-Google VP) and Melissa-Ann Chan.
🤖 8/3 (Americas): Sign up here to hear from OpenAI’s Teddy Lee (Google 2013-15) as he shares more about Accelerating Model Development at OpenAI with Human-in-the-Loop.
🔥 8/10 (EMEA): Sign up here for our fireside chat with Dan Cobley, former Google VP and MD Google UK & Ireland.
🤖 8/4 (APAC/EMEA) & 8/3 (Americas) Sign up here for our Generative AI session for Developers.
🔥 8/10 - Sign up here for our fireside chat with Christian Tom (Google 2008, 2009-11) who recently returned to the White House as Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Digital Strategy.
🤖 August - Sign up here for our discussion on Responsible AI with Medha Bankhwal.
FOUNDERS / INVESTORS
Investors meeting Xoogler YC S23 startups. RSVP.
🗽 Founder & Investors meetup in NY on 7/18. RSVP.
💰 💻 Investor meetups with founders online 7/25.
APAC Xoogler Demo Day is on August 24 held at Google Singapore! Startups apply here | Investors RSVPs here | Xooglers volunteer here. Thank you Julien Condamines for organizing! Express interest in raising from Xoogler Ventures. Email demoday@xoogler.co to help organize our SF Bay Area Demo Day.
Founders looking to be matched with UX researchers, sign up here to join the UX Researchers Hub and 7/20 Q&A session organized by Nate Dumas.
The Advisory Board for Xoogler Ventures is launching. Learn more.
🔍 SEEKING ADVICE
Email to connect with the following Xooglers
Do you know any law firms looking to test out new Generative AI tools developed by 5 ex-Google engineers or investors interested in speaking to them?
Are you an education expert (or engineer) interested in working with a repeat founder for a LLM EdTech startup? His NASDAQ listed EdTech startup passed 100M users and $300m in revenue.
Are you a current or past product leader at a fast-moving startup? A Xoogler is ramping up product development now that they have a full eng and design team and would appreciate hearing your insight on how larger teams develop product!
Do you have favorite blog articles/books that you can share or willing to chat with a founder on good data discipline? He’s trying to establish a better culture around data.
Our team is “working on a startup in the AI and EE space. We have customers and are looking to raise soon. Would love to pick brain of entrepreneurs who’ve raised in the recent market.”
“Does anyone know of a commercially friendly image dataset for training a stable diffusion model from scratch? (Like LAION-5B but with less restrictive licensing). Willing to pay a license fee for it if needed.” Posted in the Xoogler slack #t-ai channel.
EVENTS
Check the Xoogler slack #announcements channel for events that are organized and held between these newsletters.
💻🌁 Sign up here for Bi-weekly Machine Learning meetup hosted by Navneet Singh, Kushagra Shrivastava and Stephen Tse in person at 5pm PST in Palo Alto and online
💻 Sign up here for weekly startup mentorship hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur
🗽🎓7/17 5pm EDT Sign up here for NYC EdTech Drinks hosted by Amitt Agrawwal
🗽💰🚀7/18 5pm EDT Sign up here for NYC Startup & Investor Drinks hosted by Amitt Agrawwal
💻🇸🇬 7/19 6pm SGT Sign up here for Startup Founding and Fundraising Best Practices featuring early stage founders Marshall Silver from DekatKita, Auston Quek from Waffle and Milan Reinartz from Ascend Angels hosted at Singapore’s Google Developer Space and live-streamed
🇯🇵 7/20 Sign up here for the Tokyo TGIF organized by Daisuke Sagawa and Kazuki Notsu
💻 🇺🇸 🇸🇬 7/20 6pm PDT | 7/21 9am SGT Sign up here for How Arta is opening up private banking for everyone with Caesar Sengupta and Melissa-Ann Chan.
💻 7/24 6pm PDT | 7/25 9am SGT Sign up here for investor meetup organized by Huiling Xie and Mohammed Abdoolcarim
🇦🇺 7/26 Sign up here for Sydney Drinks
🗽7/27 6pm EDT Sign up here for NY Sales/Partnerships and Marketing Meetup hosted by Richard Berta
🇧🇷 8/4 Sign up here for Rio de Janeiro Happy Hour hosted by Zac Glover
💻 8/9 3pm EDT | 8pm BST Sign up here Finding power and unlocking value in high-stakes negotiations with Paul Alexander
🇬🇧 8/10 Sign up here for London Drinks hosted by Sal Mohammed
🇦🇺 8/16 Sign up here for the Sydney morning meetup hosted by Hiam Sakakini and Vero Tebbit
🇸🇬 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 🇮🇳 🇨🇳 💻 8/24 Xoogler Demo Day APAC. Startups applications here | Investors RSVPs here | Xoogler volunteers here
🇬🇧 August Sign up here for London’s Generative AI Meetup hosted by Henry Scott-Green, Nico Croce & Sal Mohammed
💻 August Sign up here for our next Responsible AI session with Medha Bankhwal
💻🏛️ September Sign up here for this online and Washington DC based Personal Finance discussion with Anne-Lise Wohlers
🇭🇰 🇸🇬 Sign up here for private dinners featuring Chef Kevin Lim
🌁 Sign up here for Bay Area CTO Happy Hour with Sriram Panyam
🌁 Sign up here for weekly SF Bay Area Pickleball with Kazuki Notsu and Ankit Jain
Meetups are also being organized between our monthly newsletters. Check out the #announcements or regional channels on the Xoogler Slack, LinkedIn page and group or reach out to your fellow members below if you don’t see a local event listed above.
To organize an event for the community, join our organizing events onboarding session and review how Mantas Aleks, our Melbourne organizer host events. Thank you to all our incredible volunteers that contribute to our community, including many that may not be listed in this newsletter.
🎸 Austin - Michael Powers
🇮🇩 Bali - Anne Caron
🏫 Boston - Katchen Gerig, Sumeet Multani & David Stiehr
🇩🇰 Copenhagen - Jonas Emiliussen & Peter Theisen
⛰️ Denver / Boulder - Jeff Rozic
🇦🇪 Dubai - Alexey Kokin
🇮🇪 Dublin - Valentina Borovaya
🇩🇪 Germany (Berlin & Hamburg) - Daniel Gilgenmann & Till Dietrich
🇮🇳 India (Bangalore, Delhi & Hyderabad) - Amitt Agrawwal, Anshu Surana, Deepti Dayal, Anjuman Narula, Mahiti Kamdar, Kirti Sambhus Diwan, Roudra Bhattacharya, Itii Mittal & others
🇿🇦 Johannesburg - Karen Walstra
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur - Hanson Toh
🏖️ Los Angeles - David Bos & Mitch Bradford
🇵🇹 Lisbon - Irina Leca & Julia Muszynski
🇬🇧 London - Sal Mohammed
🇦🇺 Melbourne - Mantas Aleks
🌴 Miami - Anthony Hernandez
🗽 NYC - Stefanie Lau & Adam Sah
🔺 Raleigh-Durham - Ryan Carey
🌁 San Francisco East Bay - MinhHa Pham
🇧🇷 São Paulo - Adrian Carabias
☕ Seattle - Hadas Shahak Ben-Horin
🇹🇼 Taipei - David Lin
🇨🇦 Toronto - Alex Ausch
🇨🇦 Vancouver - YK Sugi
🇻🇳 Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City & Hanoi) - Robert Hyunh
🏛️ Washington DC - Devika Daga
🇨🇭 Zurich - Zineb Ait Bahajji
AI / ML - Navneet Singh, Kushagra Shrivastava & Stephen Tse
APM - Max Greenwald
Autonomous Vehicles - Mohammad Musa
Founders/Investor Meetups & Y Combinator Application Prep - Ankit Jain
Marketing - Veronique Lafargue & Rashi Singhania
Mental Wellness - Kristin Maczko
Newsletter - Zachery Lim & Przemek Zajic
Solopreneurs - Alexandros Papageorgiou
Slack - Brian Rabben & Nate Dumas
Web3 - Than Khine
TALENT
HIRING NOW: Be sure to check out the jobs are posted on the Xoogler Job Board and add your profile. Email talent@xoogler.co if you need help to source talent. Here are some opportunities with Xoogler founded companies:
Blueprint: Founding engineering, community operations and product strategy roles based in Palo Alto and Bangalore.
Ello: Head of Engineering (US Remote)
Karma3Labs: Founding Engineers
Lun: Sales and Business Development Lead (Germany)
Rising Team: CSM, Product Designer, Sales Development Manager
Trendsi: Growth Product Manager, Talent Acquisition & HR Manager (California/Remote)