Xoogler.co: Looking for a cofounder? | Design Your ThriveMap | Lexi Reese | Sean Mullaney | Financial Wellness Series
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🎓 Join your fellow Xooglers & Googlers in a Design Your ThriveMap class at INSEAD’s San Francisco Hub. Express your interest for other upcoming classes:
Fundraising strategies for first time founders
Preparing your path to be a Venture Capitalist
Developing your fractional work career
Finding your co-founder and fostering co-founder relationships
🚀 Kushagra Shrivastava and Christopher Fong are hiring a lead engineer, a customer success manager and product analyst in Palo Alto to support and expand the community. Email to learn more and sign up to be an early tester!
🫶 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.
🙏 Thank you Julien Condamines for organizing Xoogler Demo Day APAC held at Google’s Singapore office yesterday. We appreciate your leadership and the contributions from Thye Yeow Bok, Michael Maltese, Lawrence Leong, Esna Ong, Angela W, Anne Caron, Gregory Satvinit, Dilini Galanga, Richard Hoon Tah Yuan, Arun Kumar, Annabelle Lin, Emily Ng, Raphaël Peyret, Christian Cadeo, Milagros Escoredo, Jinjin Niu, Simon Molenberg, Ram Chaitanya, Christina Wong, Basti Santiago, Amitt Agrawal, Karyna Yoong, Saif Farooqui, Angela W, Munjal Vaidya and others for helping the early startup founders present infront of a packed investor audience and online! Email demoday@xoogler.co to help run our Silicon Valley Demo Day!
UPCOMING TALKS
💻 8/25 6:30pm PDT | 8/26 9:30am SGT & 7am IST Investors Q&A with Amitt Agrawwal, Co-Founder of OckyPocky. RSVP.
🇺🇸 8/29 5pm PDT Lexi Brownell Reese (Google 2007-15) is running for US Senate (Lexi recently spoke to Xooglers on the code to scaling high performing teams). Though it's a CA race, it has national and international consequences. Many Googlers and Xooglers are supporting Lexi and we wanted to provide our community a chance to hear from her and consider supporting her as well. 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.
🛠️ 8/30 6pm GMT | 9am PDT Join us as we learn from Olapic's co-founder Jose de Cabo on how he founded the business, based in New York with talent based globally and sold it for $130M and how you can do it. RSVP.
💼 8/30 5pm PDT | 8am SGT Grant Evans will share his journey from Goldman Sachs to Stripe to how he chose to join Radar and career advice he has for those early in their career on evaluating opportunities. RSVP.
🚀 8/31 12pm PDT | 7pm GMT Join us as we discuss how to evaluate tech lead opportunities and join rocketships. RSVP.
📈 9/5 5pm PDT Join our new weekly Personal Finance discussions with guest speakers and best practices. RSVP.
🇮🇪 9/13 6pm GMT | 9am PDT 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.
📰 9/20 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.
🎮 September: Are you looking to build a mobile game startup? Join this discussion to learn the latest from gaming startup experts. RSVP.
🚀 STARTUPS
8/31 Investors meeting Xoogler YC S23 startups in San Francisco before Demo Day. RSVP.
9/6 Xoogler startups working on using the latest in AI to improve financial systems are invited to meet with Przemek Zagic, Google's Head of Strategy & Operations for Finance Enterprise Applications. RSVP.
🎥 RECORDED SESSIONS
Manik Gupta, Google’s former Director of Product for Google Maps and current Corporate VP for Microsoft Teams shared his 5 key observations around the market, product, talent, startup ecosystem and culture from his recent trip to India 🇮🇳.
Dan Cobley started as Google's Head of Marketing for UK and Benelux to become the head of the UK and Ireland business. He shared how he navigated his career through layoffs and industry changes, the framework he used to evaluate new opportunities and the kinds of businesses he's looking to invest in.
🔍 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 5 ex-Google engineers or investors interested in speaking to them?
Are you in Palo Alto, Singapore or Singapore and looking to work at a new EdTech startup? Reach out to learn more
🌁 SF BAY AREA EVENTS
8/25 12pm (Palo Alto) Looking for a Co-Founder Meetup. RSVP and share your interest
8/25 8pm (Palo Alto) Beginners Poker Night. RSVP
8/26 8am (Mitchell Park) Pickleball with Kazuki Notsu. RSVP
8/29 12pm (Palo Alto) Founders Meetup with Matt Hershenson. RSVP
9/5 5pm (SF or Palo Alto) Personal Finance discussions. RSVP
9/12 4pm (Palo Alto) 500 Global will share more about the Global Accelerator Fund and the latest they are seeing in AI. RSVP
9/13 6pm (SF) Trends in Generative AI with Cruise’s Eric Deng. RSVP
9/14 5pm (Palo Alto) AI Startups Panel at Playground Global. RSVP
9/20 5:30pm (SF) How to sell to largest enterprises of the world (First customer: Is Bank), Kazuki Notsu and Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP
Bi-Weekly 5pm (Palo Alto) 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
🎸 9/10 Austin drinks with Chris Fong. RSVP
🇦🇺 9/12 Sydney Drinks hosted by Anna Buber and Chris Bayley at CoverGenius. RSVP
💻🏛️ Washington DC Personal Finance discussion with Anne-Lise Wohlers. RSVP
🇬🇧 10/18 London’s Generative AI Meetup hosted by Henry Scott-Green, Nico Croce & Sal Mohammed. RSVP
🇭🇰 🇸🇬 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.
Fill in this form to meet up with other Xooglers/Googlers in your local community!
🎸 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
OFFERS
Sandhill Markets, a Xoogler Ventures portfolio company recently announced a "Robinhood for Pre-IPO Secondaries'' with deals like Stripe, OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic, Databricks etc. $30 million has been invested pre-launch. Xooglers are given the opportunity to get 33% off the membership, $149 to $99/month for the first year if you use the code STKS.
Create and Learn, founded by Jessie Jiang (Google 2005-14) is offering ChatGPT classes for Xoogler families with kids Grades 4-12 on 9/15 and 9/23.
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, community operations and product strategy roles based in Palo Alto
Bodi is looking for a Founding ML / Backend Engineer
Ello: Head of Engineering (US Remote)
Harmony: Tech Lead (Palo Alto)
Karma3Labs: Founding Engineers
Rising Team: CSM, Product Designer, Sales Development Manager
Trendsi: Growth Product Manager, Talent Acquisition & HR Manager (California/Remote)