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🗞 News
Sandeep Jain built Workrise (now valued at $2.9B) as their Co-Founder/CTO. He’s now helping Xooglers find jobs by building the Talent Platform and the new Jobs & Product Betas Newsletter. Sign up for customized job listings.
Patrick Pichette (Google’s CFO 2008-15) is now at Inovia Capital. He’s looking for Xooglers interested in joining his portfolio or providing them with mentorship and strategic support. Join him on June 9 to learn more.
Do you want to be an angel investor and run a community? Sign up for the 4 week program as we teach how you can build your own investment syndicate and community based on our experience building the Xoogler community to over 10,500 members and the Investment Syndicate which has grown to 2,160 investors.
Investor Meetups - Join the fireside chats with Capital G’s Laela Sturdy and Addition’s Aaron Schildkrout. Founders, join us for roundtable sessions with Index Venture’s Nina Achadjian, F7 Venture’s Yvette Lui & Kelly Graziadei, Tsingyuan Ventures’ Eric Rosenblum and Endeit Capital’s Jelle-Jan Bruinsma.
📖 Founder Stories - Learn how MixLife’s Deepa Vivekanandan and Lettie Malan Assaf are Improving Mental Health Through Creativity, Faves’ Tyler Maloney is Building the Future of Content Curation (here’s an early access link), Flaire’s Julia Carter is Reinventing shopping and Zi Wang’s Timeless is Building The Anti-Calendar Platform.
Join the crypto & blockchain community. Give feedback on the Xoogler Token and read our recap on The Future of NFTs with OpenSea’s Devin Finzer.
Do you have an opinion about APM programs? Contribute to this post by Xoogler School alum Jacob Moore where he shares Shiva Rajaraman (Facebook VP Commerce) and Matt Piccolella’s (Lyft PM) insights on developing PM talent outside of Google. Share feedback on Xoogler School 2.0 or buy the book.
EMEA Xoogler Demo Day is on June 8! Sign up if you are an investor. Thank you Jenny Collins, Steffen Ehrhardt, Aashna Gupta, Vanessa Stefanak and Rune Bentien for helping startup founders!
🇮🇳 Join Amit Agrawal’s Q&A on how you can help support India with Covid-19 cases peaking.
🗓 Upcoming Events
Weekly on Clubhouse with Bader Hamdan. Email clubhouse@xoogler.co if you need an invite.
Tuesdays at 2pm PT: Mentoring by Kazuki & Yiğit. RSVP
Fridays at 5pm PT: TGI-AI. RSVP
5/26 5pm AEST | 3pm SGT: Q&A with Blackbird Ventures and the founding story of Cyble. In person in Sydney and online. RSVP
5/26 5pm PT: Founders meetup with Nina Achadjian, Partner at Index Ventures. RSVP
5/27 6pm SGT: Singapore Virtual Drinks hosted by Anne Caron. RSVP
5/27 5pm PT: Global TGIF with Patrick Salyer, Partner at Mayfield. RSVP
6/1 5pm PT | 6/2 8am SGT: The Story of the Parent-by-Choice of an Autistic Young Man. RSVP
6/1 5pm PT: Founders Meetup with Yvette Lui & Kelly Graziadei, Founding Partners at F7 Ventures. RSVP
6/2 11am PT: Google Acquired Founders Meetup by Remi, Yiğit, Kazuki featuring Gummi, Google acquired founder of Fractal5. RSVP
6/2 12pm CET: Berlin Crypto Meetup - Bitcoin vs Ethereum. RSVP
6/3 6pm AEST: Melbourne Drinks hosted by Mantas Aleks. RSVP
6/8 5:30pm AEST: Sydney Drinks. RSVP
6/9 8am PT | 11am ET: Career Development at Growth Startups with Patrick Pichette. RSVP
6/9 5pm PT: Founders Meetup with Eric Rosenblum, Partner at Tsingyuan Ventures. RSVP
6/10 8am PST | 5pm CET: Learn the basics about Angel investing. Led by Brooke Harley. RSVP
6/10 5pm PT: Fireside chat with Capital G’s Laela Sturdy. RSVP
6/10 8pm ET: Toronto Meetup hosted by Alex Ausch. RSVP
6/15 4pm CET: Founders Meetup with Jelle-Jan Bruinsma, Partner at Endeit Capital. RSVP
6/17 8pm ET: Womxn's Meetup. Hosed by Stefanie Lau. RSVP
6/23 5pm PT: Fireside chat with investor Aaron Schildkrout. RSVP
7/1 6pm PT: Autonomous Vehicles Meetup. RSVP
7/13 6pm PT: LA Summer Meetup. RSVP
🚀 Talent
If you are looking for a job, sign up here. Sign up here to list a role for a Xoogler company. Complete list of job opportunities. Find a co-founder. Submit an open role. Email for a warm intro for the following:
Remote: Kevin Chou (sold Kabam for ~$1B) is hiring senior product leaders or ex-consumer startup CEOs to build tokenized social/consumer startups on Rally's core tech infrastructure. Join the Q&A session. Kevin’s other company, Forte was just valued at $1B.
SF, Austin & Remote: Wilbur Labs is hiring for an EIR, Senior Growth Manager & Head of Product.
SF: Pluto allows users to create your virtual world and events in one click. Co-founded by Katsuya Noguchi & Elad Gil. Hiring for a Lead Designer & Full Stack Engineer.
SF: A Xoogler run VC fund is looking for a Chief of Staff. The ideal candidate is someone with a strong technical and PM background and has tried crypto.
MTV, LA, Tokyo, Detroit, Seoul, Munich, Paris, Vancouver, Washington DC: Applied Intuition provides software tools and infrastructure for safely developing, testing, and deploying autonomous vehicles at scale. Read why Vijaysai Patnaik joined.
Australia: Patrick Donelan co-founded SNEAKQL with fellow Xooglers Andrew Lipp & James Boysons. He’s hiring for an APM and Software Engineers.
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