Hi all, I'm a finalist for the Kleiner Perkins Product Fellowship, and I'm currently at the stage where I have to land an offer at a KP portfolio company (examples are Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, Figma, Pinterest, Slack, Robinhood, Alkira, Cameo, Coda, Duolingo, Future, Gusto, Labelbox, Nextdoor, Nuna, ...Read more
Most VC firms have a job board of all the available roles in their portfolio companies. If you are looking for a job at a startup this is a great place to start This Google sheet aggregates many of those job boards . Well over 20,000 open roles here https://bit.ly/3wmTLvS Hopefully this helps on...Read more
Any insights into most promising startups in their portfolio? Got contacted by a recruiter to who offered introductions to companies on their "talent portal".
Which companies don’t require a portfolio for their product or UX designers? #design #interviews #Ux
Going into a blockchain start up soon. Ideally i would like to stay there and 🦄 it out but just in case what should i look to accomplish during my time there to improve my resume for a potential job in a company like coinbase or robinhood crypto or opensea note: mostly gonna be dealing with NFTs a...Read more
Hi all, I’m lookin for any wisdom on whether recessions generally result in increased risk of layoffs at PE-owned companies, above and beyond public companies. Should a worker deciding between comparable public vs private company job offers in a recession be more wary that PE ownership means less re...Read more
Seeking advice on investing $200,000+. I don’t have time to research on stock market and invest in other places too. Is there some good research and investment management companies that can yield me solid returns? TC: $300K YOE:8 Position:SDE (L5)
Honestly, I feel like it's hard to open their doors. I graduated from a state university, but worked hard and studied UX/UI design my own after I graduated with graphic design degree. My dream is to work at FAANG/big-tech company. Their compensation benefits are competitive, and so it their hiring p...Read more
We have an innovative idea/technical solution that has a ton of demand in our market. We are purposely quiet about it because of the market gap for our technology. Through a back channel (and in writing) we discovered our VCs leaked our product ip/road map to another one of their portfolio companies...Read more
Example - total invested stock portfolio 1M, company vested stock is 400k so % is 40.
No FAANG but PE. It’s rough with the constant reorgs, leadership changes and layoffs. Some days it feels like I don’t even have guidance into next month. Anyone else feel the same? Would jump but nervous about jumping into more chaos Blind tax 4yoe, 145k product marketing
For someone to join as a senior engineer or engineering manager / leader? #andreessenhorowitz #sequoiacapital #bessemerventurecapital #bessemer #venturecapital
Especially interested if you’re in a top tech company. Some examples of the software that I’m describing: JIRA Rally Planview Clarity Clarizen Daptiv MS Portfolio Aha ProductPlan Etc
As my portfolio has more than 1 mil now I start to think about finding a financial advisor. Any suggestion of who is good with best rate out there?
my private equity friends, you know how the biz works, what would you suggest? yahoo is now owned by private equity, as an employee does it make sense to stick around or look elsewhere? they're already removing folks and putting in new leaders...
Watch last 1 min of the video https://youtu.be/vBkzm4a7iY4 #layoff
Doesn’t matter where you upload, it’ll get flagged. I’m not looking now but would like to keep my portfolio current. What have others done to work around this? TC 200
Hey folks. 26yo here. Starting to take investing a bit more seriously now that I’m in a good TC outside North America ($115K USD) Have read into covered call ETFs like QYLD, XYLD, RYLD, etc. And I wanted to ask if someone of you are doing ok with a portfolio mix like this one? Ideally I want to inv...Read more
When preparing an on-site portfolio, do you include a slide dedicated to explaining your motivation for wanting to join the company?