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🎓 The workshop featuring Chetta Crowley (Talent Leader at Apple, Amazon, Google, Atlassian), Veronique Lafargue and Victoria Woo at INSEAD’s San Francisco Hub is on Wednesday November 15. Sign up here as they cover Creating strategies to land your next best job, Fractional work best practices and Thriving in today’s environment.
🎯 We are hiring for a marketing associate based in Palo Alto to help bring our 30,000+ member community to the next level! Please share the role and your recommendations!
🚀💻 Async Online Demo Day - Founders sign up by 11/6. We are partnering with Nexus Events who have hosted StartX Stanford and Harvard I-lab’s Demo Days for years. They have helped companies raise over $22 Billion including SNAP, Patreon, Lime Bike, Kodiak, Etc. This Demo Day is async - you provide a video and relevant investors will watch at their own time. Investors will indicate if they are interested in meeting with you, and you can directly get the intro to the investors that seem like a potential fit for you. Investors sign up here.
🚀 💻🇬🇧 In-Person & Online Xoogler EMEA Demo Day is on 12/6 6pm GMT. RSVP (investors) RSVP (startups).
🇮🇳 Thank you to the India community for kickstarting the India jobs program. Be sure to reach out if you’re hiring in India or a Xoogler in India looking for work.
🤖 🔥 Fireside chat with Google DeepMind’s Director & Head of Product Mehdi Ghissassi on 11/16. RSVP.
💯 🇸🇬 If you’re in Singapore, don’t miss out on 11/4’s Singapore Math session on new approaches for solving challenging maths problems for 8 -10 year olds using the model drawing and heuristic methods. RSVP.
💼 💻 Jobs We are helping companies hire and Xooglers find jobs. Companies like FalconX and Applied Intuition are hiring! Email for a warm intro! If you’re job hunting, be sure to join our fireside chat with Applied Intuition’s Eitan Sheer, they have over 100 job openings in 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 🇩🇪 🇸🇪 🇺🇸 (MTV, Ann Arbor, Washington DC, Detroit). To get a glimpse of their leadership, check out their CEO/Co-Founder, Qasar Younis sharing best practices on applying for Y Combinator in September.
💼 Please reach out if you have c-suite experience and a background in musculoskeletal health in NY or c-suite and lead gen experience in San Diego.
👏 Congrats Max Greenwald (ex-APM) for announcing his company’s $11M Series A fundraise led by Xoogler Aydin Senkut, Founder of Felicis Ventures. They orchestrate existing sales enablement and intent tools and automatically delivers ready to convert prospects. He’s looking for APMs to help run the Xoogler monthly events.
EVENTS
💻 11/1 12pm PDT Women’s Career Series hosted by Catherine Lacavera, featuring Amy Jin and Terry O'Connor. RSVP.
💻 🌁 11/6 5pm PDT Interested in the VC landscape? Join us online as we hear from Sam Lessin on his ideas of where the industry is now and where it is going! RSVP.
💻 11/7 5pm PDT TGI-ML | Fireside chat with Shishir Mehrotra. RSVP.
💻 11/7 5pm PDT Personal Finance Weekly with Andy Gupta. RSVP.
💻 11/7 Weekly startup mentorship hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP
💻11/14 12pm PDT Choosing the Right Investors from Pre-Seed to Series A with Steve Femino. RSVP
💻 11/16 5pm PDT Immigrations Options for startups featuring Rita Sostrin. RSVP
💻 11/20 12pm PDT New member onboarding with Nate Dumas and Nithvin Leelakrishnan. RSVP
💻 11/21 12pm PDT The evolving role of developers in an AI first future | Fireside chat with Hywel Carver, CEO of Skiller Whale, hosted by Sal Mohammed. RSVP.
💻🇮🇹11/21 5.30pm CEST Fireside chat with Technogym & Wellness Holdings’ Edoardo Alessandri, Michele Battelli and Alessandro Durello as they discuss innovation in the wellness sector and opportunities to join Technogym or partner with them. RSVP.
💻🇬🇧 12/6 6pm GMT Xoogler EMEA Demo Day RSVP (investors) RSVP (startups)
💻 December Virtual Open Mic session with Jomilyn, meet fellow musicians and share your love for music with recorded performances. RSVP.
🎥 RECORDED SESSIONS
Lazlo Bock former Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google from 2006 to 2016, joined the Xoogler community, to discuss the recent changes that have impacted the global recruiting team. He shared the best way to bounce back from layoffs and launch yourself into the job hunt market. It’s a MUST WATCH! Do subscribe to our YouTube channel and turn on notifications for the latest recordings.
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🌁 SF BAY AREA EVENTS
💻 🌁 11/7 5pm PDT TGI-ML | Fireside chat with Shishir Mehrotra. RSVP.
🌁11/10 6pm PST Xoogler/Googler Dinner Hosted by Adi Kancherla in SF city. RSVP
🌁11/30 3pm PDT Xoogler founders meet-up with guest speaker Shawn Carolan a partner at Menlo Ventures. RSVP.
🌁♠️11/30 | 12/6 6pm PST Poker Night at Palo Alto/SF City RSVP for either date!
💻 🌁12/6 6pm PDT Winnie Lam and Kristin Maczko will be offering a Mental Wellness session in Mountain View. RSVP.
ONLINE AND GLOBAL EVENTS
🍁11/19 10am First Vancouver Meetup | Happening downtown Vancouver hosted by YK Sugi. RSVP
🇬🇧11/9 6.30pm GMT London Drinks | Get together for a social catch up at Camino King's Cross. RSVP.
🇸🇬 11/9 Xoogler AI Meetup featuring Vasanth Raju. RSVP.
🗽11/11 12pm EDT NY Friendsgiving BBQ at Adam and Leesa's. Join us for good people, good food, and beautiful views of the city from the Lower East Side. RSVP.
🇩🇪11/29 6pm CEST Till Dietrich is organising a Hamburg Xoogler Meetup for Christmas at Fleetinsel Christmas Market. RSVP.
🥩 November Dallas meet up - Amiyata Kalia and Brain Rabbin are organising a Dallas group with active events happening regularly. If you would like to see this happen do RSVP!
🇹🇼 Project Hatcher is a google incubator program in Taiwan in collaboration with Foxconn to support local startups. Watch them pitch on YouTube. Reach out to David Lin to plan our in-person events!
Meetups are also being organized between our monthly newsletters. Check out the #announcements 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.
Fill in this form to meet up with other Xooglers/Googlers in your local community!
🥩 Dallas - Amiyata Kalia & Brain Rabben
🎸 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
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:
Aquabyte: Lead Full-Stack Engineer (SF), Customer Success Manager (Norway)
Ello: ML Engineer, Senior Creative Growth Hacker (US Remote)
Karma3Labs: Founding Engineers
Lun: Business Development Lead - Germany
Trendsi: Growth Product Manager, Talent Acquisition & HR Manager (California/Remote)
Opportunities in Slack jobs hiring channels: Do check out the jobs channels on Slack such as #jobs-hiring-misc for new jobs posted by fellow xooglers everyday!