Xoogler.co: PM to GM Journey | Launching a startup before you quit your job | Building AI products | Founders circle with Eduardo Saverin
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LEARN
Don’t miss out on our programs to learn how to be a PM to GM (online), launch a startup before you quit your job (online), how to transition to engineering from sales (online) and hear from Xooglers at Notion, Figma, Glean, Applied Intuition, and formerly Databricks on the challenges of building AI products (San Mateo).
Catherine Lacavera, Xoogler’s Advisor alongside Qasar Younis wrote "What Did You Do At School Today?" and shared that she found the techniques of famous trial lawyers equally applicable to her most important job, that of a mother.
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.
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WATCH
Anne Dwane from Village Global shared insights on their Velocity Program. Be sure to apply by September 10 and email to get your application highlighted. Ankit Jain is still helping late applications get into Y Combinator’s Fall 2024 Batch. Email him for support.
EVENTS
All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event!
🇲🇾 9/9 12pm Kuala Lumpur meetup with Huiling Xie. RSVP.
🌁 9/10 5pm Mountain View Healthcare Panel at Fenwick & West. RSVP.
🌁 9/10 7:30pm San Francisco x-APMM (Xooglers and Googlers) Reunion. RSVP.
💻 9/12 9am PDT Climate Founders Series with Peter Light. RSVP.
🏄 9/12 6pm Orange County Meetup with Nicole Tsai. RSVP.
🇸🇬 9/15 4pm Meetup with Stanford Alumni Club during Token2049 organized by George Li. RSVP.
🇸🇬 9/17 4pm Token2049 Welcome Drinks sponsored by SGN. RSVP.
🇩🇪 9/17 7pm Hamburg Meetup with Till Dietrich. RSVP.
⛴ 9/17 6pm Seattle Meetup with Hadas Shahak Ben-Horin. RSVP.
🇸🇬 9/18 6:30pm Monthly drinks at Monk’s Brew Club sponsored by SGN. RSVP.
🗽 9/18 3pm SPC Commons Demo Day and Happy Hour. RSVP.
🏛️ 9/18 5pm Washington DC Real Estate Investor Meetup with Marsha Fils. RSVP.
🌺 9/18 5pm Women’s Meetup at Honolulu Tech Week with Rosalyn Mahashin. RSVP.
🇸🇬 9/19 5pm Fireside chat with FalconX’s Raghu Yarlagadda & Electric Capital’s Avichal Garg at Google. RSVP.
🇻🇳 9/20 7pm Hanoi Xooglers Meetup with Robert Huynh. RSVP.
🗽 9/21 2pm NYC Summer Rooftop BBQ. RSVP.
🇸🇬 💻 9/23 9am SGT Investors join us online & in-person in Singapore to hear about this Coffee Venture & Social Club investment opportunity featuring Monk’s Brew Club’s Alaap Tatwawadi. RSVP.
🗽 9/23 5:30pm NYC Real Estate Investor Meetup with Marsha Fils. RSVP.
🇮🇪 💻 9/24 7pm IST Ireland Virtual Meetup. RSVP.
🏙 9/24 4:30pm Chicago Meetup with Becky Thalmann. RSVP.
🗽 9/24 5:30pm NYC Tech Talk: SQL Optimization with ML and Gen AI. RSVP.
🏛️ 9/24 5:30pm Washington DC / DMV Happy Hour. RSVP.
🌁 9/24 6pm San Mateo Founders in AI Networking with Fluxon. RSVP.
💻 9/24 6pm PDT | 9am SGT Investors hear from a Xoogler founder in this fundraising Q&A. RSVP.
💻 9/26 12pm EDT Womxn@Xoogler.co Money Matters Series Talk. RSVP.
🌁 9/26 5:30pm San Mateo Panel and Networking Event: Hear from a panel of product and engineering leaders from Notion, Figma, Glean, Applied Intuition, and formerly Databricks sharing insights and discussing the challenges of building AI products. Networking to follow. RSVP.
⛳️ 9/27 7pm Atlanta Xooglers TGIF: Startups and TopGolf. RSVP.
🇦🇺 October Melbourne & Sydney meetups. RSVP.
🇫🇷 10/1 6:30pm Paris Meetup. RSVP.
🇵🇹 10/1 7pm Portugal (Lisbon) Xoogler Meetup. RSVP.
💻 10/1 9pm SGT Fireside chat with Daniel Cintra, learn how he pivoted from Google sales to engineering and product in startups. RSVP.
🌁 ♻️ 10/2 6:45pm SF Climate Dinner with Mark Grozen-Smith. RSVP & sign up for the Global Climate Community.
💻 10/2 🇬🇧 8am UK Time | 🇮🇳 12:30pm IST | 🇸🇬 3pm SGT Start a company before you quit your job. Q&A with DQ Ventures’s James Green. RSVP.
🇸🇬 10/9 12pm Singapore Founders Meetup at January Capital. RSVP.
🇸🇬 10/9 5pm Xoogler Demo Day at Google Singapore. RSVP.
🌁 10/10 5pm TGIF and AI Researcher Fireside Chat. Hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP.
💻 10/12 9am PDT/12pm EDT/5pm GMT Climate Founders Series with Brendan Hermalyn, Founder and CEO of Thalo Labs. RSVP.
💻 10/15 7pm PDT PM to GM Journey with Shiva Rajaraman. RSVP.
💻 10/22 11am EDT 🇺🇸 | | 4pm BST 🇬🇧 | 5pm CEST 🇪🇺 | 8:30pm IST 🇮🇳 Xoogler New Member Onboarding. RSVP.
🗽 10/26 8:30pm NYC Xooglers Halloween Party. RSVP.
💻 10/29 9am PDT/12pm EDT/5pm GMT Climate Founders Series with Paul Lambert, CEO of Quilt. RSVP.
🗽 11/16 3pm NYC Xooglers Friendsgiving Party. RSVP.
🇸🇬 12/11 6:30pm Singapore Holiday Party. 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 in San Francisco 🇺🇸
Key: Senior Engineering in Ahmedabad 🇮🇳, Growth Marketer 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇸🇬, Growth marketer in Palo Alto 🇺🇸
Fintech Stealth Startup in Dubai 🇦🇪 & Bangalore 🇮🇳 looking for an ex-consultant with 3-7 years of experience