Here’s a list of hot startups I found: Chime, Plaid, Airtable, Discord, Reddit, Brex, Notion, Figma(Adobe) They are all pre-IPO and scored extremely high in blind rating. Questions: 1. How accurate is the blind rating? Are they really that good? 2. Given the frozen job market and economic recession, which of them do you think are relatively stable in job security and will survive? Please vote:
What am I voting on?
Plaid and Reddit are certainly the most sticky. Although discord is up there, as well.
Can I ask why plaid? Know little about it
Plaid makes it easy to connect your bank account to other services. Lots of businesses use it. I’m honestly surprised it hasn’t gone public yet.
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Sigma Computing
How high is their hiring bar?
Chime is still solo and private. Maybe you thinking of another?
Chime banking
Reddit is primarily an advertisement company, so if recession hits and companies reduce their advertising spend, I don’t see how it is a “safe” option like others are suggesting? Especially since they already have trouble attracting advertisers given how little user tracking they do / all content controversies that make advertisers allergic to the platform. Being a sticky consumer product doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t be hit hard by recession
Notion recently had 10% cut
What? That’s not true (I work for Notion)
My bad.. I thought it was Notion. It's a different startup
How would Plaid survive once FedNow is made available to merchants and fintechs?
How’s fednow? What’s the team behind this product?
It’s a service offered by fed reserve for real time payments. In 2023 it will only be available to banks.
How is the morale at Chime ?
A bit low compared to last year when market was up. But company is doing well. No layoffs, revenue is going up and so as active users.
Is it still hiring? I see no job opening
I can’t see Reddit or Plaid not surviving