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🌁 SF Bay Area members, are you interested in commercializing AI research? If so, be sure to join Mohit Lad (he turned his PhD into a $1B outcome to Cisco), Anna Patterson (ex-VP of Eng at Google, research PhD) and Joanne Chen (GP at Foundation Capital) in SF. RSVP to join this TGIF on October 10!
💻 Shiva Rajaraman is sharing how to be a PM to GM on October 14.
🇸🇬 Investors, if you’re in Singapore on October 15, join us for Xoogler Demo Day to catch product demos from Caesar Sengupta (former VP for Google Pay & NBU) from Arta Finance, Julien Condamines from Novo AI, Swee Kiat Lim from Pebblely and other founders! RSVP to join us at Google’s APAC headquarters.
🇦🇺 Aussie members, don’t miss out on the October 9 Melbourne meetup and October 11 Sydney meetup!.
💻 Don’t miss out on hearing from Steve Vamos, former Xero CEO, Microsoft Australia’s CEO & Apple APAC’s MD as he shares from his book, “Through Shifts & Shocks” on October 29 at 6pm PST. RSVP to hear how his insights shaped how the Xoogler community is run.
🇰🇷 Seoul members, would you like to be or can you recommend a featured speaker for the October 26 meetup? Please let us know here. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an in-person or online meetup.
💰 More Xooglers are running venture capital funds. Email your ideal check size if you are interested in being connected to them.
🚀 Ankit Jain has organized feedback for Xooglers applying for Y Combinator from Xoogler YC alumni. Email him to get feedback on your application and prepare for your interview.
🌱 Did you work at Microsoft or Meta? Help build “Xoogler” for those communities.
OPPORTUNITIES
X Studio: We are announcing a 90 day program for startup founders to ideate, validate, and build a business. The program is stage agnostic. Whether you have an idea, have written an app and need help with GTM or anything in between we will partner with you and unblock to build a successful venture. You will be guided with successful startup founders, VCs and experts. To learn more sign-up here.
Expert Network: Xooglers are subject matter experts and widely sought after. If you are willing to spend time to help our members in their journey please sign-up here to learn more about the Expert Network marketplace. Whether it's Applied AI, Revenue Ops, Coaching or GTM all disciplines are welcome to apply. Once verified, you can elect to offer services for a fee or pro bono.
Venture Fellows: Xoogler Ventures is seeking 2 Venture Fellows for 2025 to help partners with deal flow, opportunity assessment portfolio management, marketing and more. This is great opportunity to learn about the world of Venture Capital. Background in Corp Dev or Strategy are strongly preferred. If interested, please apply here.
JOBS
🙌 A xoogler is now a fractional recruiter for the community! If you’re looking to hire xooglers, email to be connected and start hiring from the community!
🧳 Abel Mengistu, CEO/Co-Founder of FlutterFlow is hiring in the US 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, India 🇮🇳, Singapore 🇸🇬, Latin America & Remote 🌍. Review the openings and email talent@xoogler.co to be connected.
🧳 Are you interested in joining a Xoogler that was at Google 2000-2009? He’s looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer (Finetuning) and a Platform Software Engineer. Email talent@xoogler.co.
🧳 Please fill in this survey if you’re a fractional executive.
WATCH
Daniel Ladvocat Cintra shared how to pivot from a career in Google Sales & Partnerships to being an engineer, product leader and co-founder at startups. He’s now the Chief Product Officer of Envera and is hiring across the board in product, design and engineering.
Don’t miss out on watching Stefanie Lau’s moderated panel featuring Sarah Payne, Jerene Yang and Terry O’Connor on Women’s Personal Finances.
Veronique Lafargue moderated the Climate Founder Series, featuring Peter Light, CEO of Lumen Energy. In this interview, Peter discusses his journey from Google X to founding Lumen Energy.
James Green, founder of DQ Ventures shared how you can launch your startup journey while keeping your day job during the high-risk stage and get support! Apply early to increase your optionality and opportunities given the uncertainties in today’s economic climate.
EVENTS
All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event!
⛳️ 10/4 7pm Atlanta TGIF: Startups and TopGolf. RSVP.
🇦🇺 10/9 6pm Melbourne meetup. RSVP.
🌁 10/10 5pm TGIF and Commercializing AI Research Panel. Hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP.
🇦🇺 10/11 5:30pm Sydney meetup. RSVP.
💻 10/14 7pm PDT PM to GM Journey with Shiva Rajaraman. RSVP.
💻 10/15 9am PDT/12pm EDT/5pm GMT Climate Founders Series with Brendan Hermalyn, Founder and CEO of Thalo Labs. RSVP.
🇸🇬 10/15 4:30pm APAC Demo Day at Google Singapore. RSVP.
🇸🇬 10/16 6:30pm Drinks hosted at Monk’s Brew Club sponsored by SGN. RSVP.
🇮🇩 10/17 7pm Bali Drinks. RSVP.
🇬🇧 10/17 6:30pm London Drinks with Sal Mohammed. RSVP.
🇩🇪 10/17 6:15pm Munich Drinks with Raphael Labaca-Castro. RSVP.
💻 10/22 11am EDT 🇺🇸 | 4pm BST 🇬🇧 | 5pm CEST 🇪🇺 | 8:30pm IST 🇮🇳 Xoogler New Member Onboarding. RSVP.
🇮🇪 💻 10/22 7pm IST Ireland Virtual Meetup. RSVP.
🇪🇸 10/24 7pm Madrid Meetup with Dino Jugo. RSVP.
💻 10/24 9am PDT/12pm EDT Womxn@Xoogler.co Finance Panel #2. RSVP.
🇰🇷 10/26 1p KST Seoul Meetup with Soo Jung Han. RSVP.
🗽 10/26 8:30pm NYC Halloween Party. RSVP.
💻 10/29 9am PDT/12pm EDT/5pm GMT Climate Founders Series with Paul Lambert, CEO of Quilt. RSVP.
💻 10/29 6pm PDT Fireside chat with Steve Vamos, former Xero CEO, Microsoft Australia’s CEO & Apple APAC’s MD on “Through Shifts & Shocks” RSVP.
💻 11/1 11am EDT Net Zero Angels (an investment collective focused on early-stage climate tech startups) information session. RSVP.
🌁 ♻️ 11/6 6:45pm SF Climate Founders Dinner with Mark Grozen-Smith. RSVP & Sign up for the Global Climate Community.
💻 11/12 6pm PST Xooglers in Climate Monthly Introduction Call. RSVP.
🗽 11/16 3pm NYC Friendsgiving Party. RSVP.
🇸🇬 11/20 6:30pm Drinks hosted at Monk’s Brew Club sponsored by SGN. RSVP.
🇬🇧 11/25 6:30pm London Winter Party. RSVP.
🇸🇬 12/11 6:30pm Singapore Holiday Party. RSVP.
🇻🇳12/30 9pm Ho Chi Minh City Drinks. RSVP.
💻 Weekly startup mentorship hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP.
TALENT
Email talent@xoogler.co if you need help to source talent. Here are some opportunities, email to be connected.
Tempo AI is hiring for a Founding ML engineer with computer vision expertise in the SF Bay Area 🇺🇸.
Aviator is hiring for early/mid-level software engineers in Palo Alto 🇺🇸.
Applied Intuition has 100+ job openings. You can view their CTO’s fireside chat with the community here. 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇰🇷 🇯🇵 🇸🇪
Flutter Flow: Head of People Ops, Technical Program Manager, Technical Writer Software Engineer 🇺🇸 🇸🇬 🇮🇳 🇧🇷
Gamma: Senior Backend Engineer, AI Engineer, Staff Frontend Engineer, Staff Product Designer in San Francisco 🇺🇸
Key: Senior Engineer in Ahmedabad 🇮🇳, Growth Marketer 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇸🇬
Fintech Stealth Startup in Dubai 🇦🇪 & Bangalore 🇮🇳 looking for an ex-consultant with 3-7 years of experience