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🎓 Join your fellow Xooglers & Googlers in a Design Your ThriveMap class at INSEAD’s San Francisco Hub on Friday October 13, in NYC and online. Express your interest for other upcoming classes
🚀 Kushagra Shrivastava and Christopher Fong are hiring a lead engineer and growth manager in Palo Alto to support and expand the community. Email to learn more and sign up to be an early tester!
♀️ Catherine Lacavera is organizing our weekly Women’s career series. We are featuring Veronique Lafargue, Hadas Shahak, MinhHa Pham and Stefanie Lau as our first fireside chat guests. RSVP.
🫶 After seeing the impact of the layoffs on the different tech communities, we’re helping other tech alumni leaders start their communities. Meta, Amazon, Tesla, Stripe, Apple, PayPal are the most popular communities that folks want to start. Reach out to be part of it and the other communities. Read how we are supporting the Airtable alumni community and share our support.
EVENTS
💻 🌁 9/15 5pm PDT AI, the end of no-code? Join us online or in Palo Alto (with a BBQ afterwards as space permits) as we hear from Aaron Tran on his thesis on Workflow86’s experience with implementing AI. RSVP
💼 9/18 10am PDT Xoogler Talent Update with Daniel Gilgenmann and Chris Fong. Learn how we are helping Xooglers find jobs and helping companies hire. RSVP
🆕 9/18 11am PDT New member onboarding with Nate Dumas and Chris Fong. RSVP
🌁 9/18 7pm PDT Startup pitch night in Palo Alto organized with Stanford GSB alums. Startups apply to present. Investors RSVP to join us.
🔥 9/19 10am PDT Fireside chat Laszlo Bock, Google's former SVP, People Operations. Join us as he discusses how to find your best work and calling after Google and job hunting in this environment RSVP
💼 9/19 12pm PDT Landing on your feet with Mark Weber. Mark was impacted by Google's changes earlier this year. He will share how he evaluated which roles to apply for, how he networked and ended up finding a new role that he recently started. RSVP
📈 9/19 4pm PDT Join our weekly Personal Finance discussions with guest speakers and best practices. Next week’s guest is Chris Hutchins, the founder of All the Hacks which helps you optimize and upgrade every aspect of your life while spending less and saving more. RSVP.
🔥 💻 9/20 4pm PDT Fireside chat with Rick Klau. As California's former Chief Technology Innovation Officer he saw first-hand how technology, innovation, and collaboration between public and private sectors could create a better, safer world for all. Sign up for the waitlist with his new company, Onsemble and join us as he shares how he’s working on addressing the climate crisis. RSVP.
📰 9/20 5pm PDT NY Times Journalist Kashmir Hill will be interviewed by Erin Delmore as she shares from her new book, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It. RSVP.
💼 9/21 11am PDT Navigating today's current talent market with Cecilia Ng. RSVP.
🔥 9/25 7pm CEST | 10am PDT Fireside chat with Raphael Leiteritz on his journey leaving Google, on Product in Europe, and also a portfolio career approach vs. only doing one thing. RSVP.
🚀 🌁 💻 9/28 6pm PDT Mountain View & Online Y Combinator Application Prep Q&A with Qasar Younis, YC’s former COO and CEO/Co-Founder of Applied Intuition. RSVP. Reach out to Ankit for feedback on your YC application.
💻 10/11 7pm UK Time Biion Henry and Tor Abrams share strategies to 100x your sales processes using AI, even with no prior experience. Organized by Sal Mohammed. RSVP
🇺🇸 Lexi Brownell Reese (Google 2007-15) is running for US Senate (Lexi recently spoke to Xooglers on the code to scaling high performing teams). Join us for an intimate discussion with Lexi on what it's like to be a start-up in an industry that is not known for welcoming challengers. RSVP.
🇮🇪 Sean Mullaney (Google 2011-18) is the CTO of Algolia, AI powered search and discovery platform that serves 17,000+ companies. He was previously the CIO for Stripe in Europe and angel invests as a Sequoia Scout. Sean was also a serial entrepreneur, founding 3 startups in 10 years. RSVP.
🎮 September: Are you looking to build a mobile game startup? Join this discussion to learn the latest from gaming startup experts. RSVP.
🎥 RECORDED SESSIONS
Kevin Xu AKA “Sir Jack” shared how he turned $35,000 into over $8 million in 21 months using his Google 401K. He’s now the CEO/Founder of AfterHour. Ask him follow up questions on the Xoogler Slack, he’s imkevinxu.
🔍 SEEKING ADVICE
Email to connect with the following Xooglers
Do you know any law firms looking to test out new Generative AI tools developed by ex-Google engineers or investors interested in speaking to them?
Are you a PM or Engineer in Sydney, Palo Alto, Singapore and looking to help start a new EdTech startup? Reach out to learn more
💬 CHAT WITH 25,459 MEMBERS ON SLACK
Be sure to hover over channels and click on manage and go to the browse channel drop down to find other channels you can join. Please head to #introduce-yourself to welcome our newest members, and help those that were recently impacted if you can connect them with any suitable opportunities.
🌁 SF BAY AREA EVENTS
9/15 6pm BBQ🍔 (Palo Alto) We have a few spots for our post-AI talk BBQ in Palo Alto. RSVP
9/16 10:30am-3pm 🏈 (Berkeley) Let us know if you are in Berkeley and would like to join the tailgate and game.
9/20 5:30pm (SF) How to sell to largest enterprises of the world (First customer: Is Bank), Kazuki Notsu and Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP
♠️ 🌁 Palo Alto Poker Night Thank you Gene Yoon for organizing our regular poker night. Join us for future sessions. RSVP.
October AI Startups Panel at Playground Global. RSVP
Bi-Weekly 5pm Machine Learning meetups hosted by Navneet Singh, Kushagra Shrivastava and Stephen Tse RSVP
ONLINE AND GLOBAL EVENTS
💻 Every Monday 6pm PDT Early Stage investors meetup with Sara Zare RSVP
💻 Bi-weekly Machine Learning meetup hosted by Navneet Singh, Kushagra Shrivastava and Stephen Tse in person in Palo Alto and online. RSVP
💻 Weekly startup mentorship hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP
💻🏛️ Washington DC Personal Finance discussion with Anne-Lise Wohlers. RSVP
💻 🇸🇬 9/22 12pm SGT Landing on your feet post Google. Join us to learn how Xooglers deployed for job hunting and how they landed their new roles. RSVP
🇬🇧 10/6 Xoogler Corporate 5 a side Football Cup in support of DOGO charity. Contact Sal Mohammed to play for Xoogler FC or submit a team.
🇬🇧 10/12 Xoogler London drinks. King’s Cross. Sign up here
🇬🇧 October London’s Generative AI Meetup hosted by Henry Scott-Green, Nico Croce & Sal Mohammed. RSVP
🇬🇧 Radical AI’s Founders Masterclass with Geoff Hinton and Fei-Fei Li. Sign up here or contact Sal Mohammed for more details
🇭🇰 🇸🇬 Private dinners in Singapore and Hong Kong featuring Chef Kevin Lim. RSVP
Meetups are also being organized between our monthly newsletters. Check out the #announcements or regional channels on the Xoogler Slack, LinkedIn page and group 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.
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🎸 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:
Blueprint: Founding engineering, growth manager roles based in Palo Alto
Ello: ML Engineer, Senior Creative Growth Hacker (US Remote)
Harmony: Tech Lead (Palo Alto)
Karma3Labs: Founding Engineers
Lun: Business Development Lead - Germany
Trendsi: Growth Product Manager, Talent Acquisition & HR Manager (California/Remote)
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