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🗽 💻 Mental Wellness Thank you Mary Grove (Google 2004-18) for inviting Options MD to speak in NY and Online on Friday June 23, 12pm EDT. We are grateful to David Hirsch (Google 2000-08) for hosting this session at Compound featuring Morgan Hewett and Kyle Pierce as they cover the following. RSVP.
The difference between sadness/ stress and clinical depression/ anxiety.
When it’s time to seek professional help for yourself or for someone you care about. Treatment options for common mental health conditions.
How (and when) to talk to friends, family members, and coworkers about their mental health.
Mental Wellness If you’re looking for peer support, Kristin Maczko, Google’s former Director of Mental Health and Well-being has set up Xoogler’s 1:1 peer program.
💻Founder meetups with Insight Partners (6/12), GV (6/19), & Keenan Rice (7/12). RSVP.
💰Investor meetups with founders in NY🗽 (6/22) and Online 💻 (7/25).
🗽Are you in NY on Friday 6/23 and you’re a marketing, technology or another type of consultant? Be sure to join our meetup hosted by Kish Sachdeva.
💻 6/23 Responsible AI with Medha Bankhwal
💻 Using generative AI tools for interview preparation and job application tasks with Abhishek Ratna. RSVP.
💻🇸🇬 Generative AI sessions for Developers and Startups. RSVP.
APAC Xoogler Demo Day is in July! Startups apply here | Investors RSVPs here | Xooglers volunteer here. Thank you Julien Condamines for organizing! Express interest in raising from Xoogler Ventures.
Founders looking to be matched with UX researchers, sign up here to join the UX Researchers Hub and 6/15 Q&A session organized by Nate Dumas.
The Advisory Board for Xoogler Ventures is launching. Learn more.
We are testing a new app to bring the global community together on iOS, Android and web. It will provide a more seamless and consistent experience globally. Sign up to be an early tester! Reach out to discuss the founding engineering and operations/strategy roles based in Palo Alto and Singapore.
To organize an event for the community, join our organizing events onboarding session. Read how Mantas Aleks, our Melbourne organizer host events.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Being a Content Creator with Daren Yoong 6/13. RSVP
How to get into Venture Capital with Rohit Agarwal from Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia 7/18. RSVP
Join our August 10 fireside chat with Dan Cobley, former Google VP and MD Google UK & Ireland.
📺 XOOGLER YOUTUBE CHANNEL
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for everything you’ve missed including:
Lexi Reese’s talk on The Code for High-Performance Leadership: Curiosity, Community, Commitment, and Clarity
Navigating the job search
Anthony Isaakidis’ Generative AI Workshop on ChatGPT and Midjourney. Email blueprint@xoogler.co to sign up for future Generative AI workshops
🔍 SEEKING ADVICE
Email to connect with the following Xooglers
Are you a pricing expert? A marketplace business started by Xooglers is looking for advice.
Do you know any law firms looking to test out new Generative AI tools developed by 4 ex-Google engineers?
A London Xoogler founder is looking for feedback on the PM process and feature launch velocity, as they’ve grown from 2 to 6 engineers in the past 12 months.
Jason Toff, Bruno Oliveira, and Nick Kruge recently announced the Beta release of Rooms.xyz, which provides a nice sandbox for making web-based games / interactive experience. They're looking for testers, age 8-108.
Alan Noble, former Director of Engineering Australia is spinning up a new open-source project called OpenFish, which is a system written in GoLang for classifying marine species.
EVENTS
The influx of new members (12K since January 19) has resulted in events being organized between our monthly newsletters. Check the Xoogler slack #announcement channel for events that are organized and held between these newsletters.
Global
💻🌁 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 & Yigit
💻 Sign up here for using generative AI tools for interview preparation and job application tasks with Abhishek Ratna
💻 Sign up here for Unlocking Growth: How the best teams use ML to activate, engage and monetize their users with Auxia's Sandeep Menon
💻 🗽6/23 12pm EDT Sign up here for the Mental Wellness session with Options MD
💻 6/23 Sign up here for our next Responsible AI session with Medha Bankhwal
💻 🇸🇬7/19 7pm SGT Sign up here for Startup Founding and Fundraising Best Practices featuring early stage founders Marshall Silver from DekatKita, Auston Quek from Waffle and Saemin Ahn from 500 hosted at Google Developer Space.
💻 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 6p PDT | 7/25 9am SGT Sign up here for investor meetup organized by Huiling Xie and Mohammed Abdoolcarim
💻 🇸🇬7/26 7pm SGT How Google can help you launch your startup. RSVP.
APAC
🇸🇬 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 🇮🇳 🇨🇳 💻 July Xoogler Demo Day APAC. Startups applications here | Investors RSVPs here | Xoogler volunteers here
🇸🇬 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 Saemin Ahn from 500 hosted at Google Developer Space
🇯🇵 7/20 Sign up here for the Tokyo TGIF organized by Daisuke Sagawa and Kazuki Notsu
🇸🇬 7/21 Sign up here for How Arta is opening up private banking for everyone with Caesar Sengupta and Melissa-Ann Chan
🇸🇬 7/26 6pm SGT Sign up here for How Google can help you launch your startup.
🇸🇬 Sign up here to learn about job opportunities at Bytedance Singapore
🇮🇳 Sign up here to join the latest events and community in India
🇭🇰 🇸🇬 Sign up here for a private dinner featuring Chef Kevin Lim
🇦🇺Sign up here for Sydney Drinks
🇻🇳 Sign up here for the Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi meetups
🇸🇬 Sign up here for our Singapore programs
🇹🇼 Sign up here for the Taipei meetup hosted by David Lin
🇸🇬 Sign up here for Weekly pickleball above Marina Square
Americas
🌁 Weekly Pickleball with Kazuki Notsu and Ankit Jain
🌁 Sign up here for Bay Area CTO Happy Hour with Sriram Panyam
🏛️ 6/19 Sign up here for Washington DC Meetup with Chris Fong
🌁 6/21 5pm PDT Sign up here for San Jose Founders Meetup with Jason Liu
🗽6/22 5pm EDT Sign up here for Investor Drinks hosted by Michael Tom at Radiate with Chris Fong
🗽6/23 12pm EDT Sign up here for the Mental Wellness session with Options MD
🗽6/23 3pm EDT Sign up here for the NY Marketing, Technology or Other Consultants meetup hosted by Kish Sachdeva
🗽6/25 2pm EDT Sign up here for the NY Founders Meetup with Chris Fong
🗽6/25 4pm EDT Sign up here for the NY Summer Solstice BBQ with Chris Fong. Hosted by Adam Sah, Leesa Lee and Stef Lau
🎸 Austin Meetup with Michael Powers
🏫 Boston Meetup with Sumeet Multani and Katchen Gerig
🇨🇦 Vancouver Meetup hosted by YK Sugi
🇨🇦 Toronto Meetup hosted by Alex Ausch
🇧🇷 São Paulo Meetup hosted by Adrian Carabias
EMEA
🇮🇪 6/14 6:30pm Sign up here for the self-awareness for career planning workshop by Ciara Spillane
🇩🇰 6/21 Copenhagen Meetup with Jonas Emiliussen and Peter Theisen
🇵🇹 6/29 Sign up here for Lisbon Meetup with Chris Fong
🇬🇧 7/11 Sign up here for AI Symposium hosted by Sal Mohammed
🇩🇰🇩🇪💻 Sign up here for hiring trends in Europe with David Sandberg and Iben Krag Rasmussen
🇿🇦 Johannesburg meetup hosted by Karen Walstra
🇦🇪 Dubai meetup hosted by Alexey Kokin
🇨🇭 Sign up here to volunteer and help the community in Zurich.
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:
AIM Intelligent Machines: A mission-driven start-up led by a former Google(x) engineer, using autonomous earth-moving equipment to tackle our most pressing environmental challenges is hiring SWE, Lead SDET, TLM, TPM. Contact mike@machines.run.
Blueprint: Founding engineering and operations/strategy roles based in Palo Alto and Singapore.
Ello: Head of Engineering, Business Analyst and more (US Remote)
Harmony: Business Development, Engineering, PM (Palo Alto)
Lun: Sales and Business Development Lead (Germany)
Rising Team: CSM, Product Designer, Sales Development Manager & Senior Software Engineer (US Remote)
Spate: Account Manager (NY)
Trendsi: Head of Brand Marketing, Head of Outbound Sales, Talent Acquisition & HR Manager (California/Remote)