Nextdoor
A recruiter reached out to me from Nextdoor and I'm thinking of putting in an application. What are people's general thoughts of this company? I am trying to gauge whether or not it's underrated since people don't seem to talk about it much as a top place to work but I do see it everywhere and I use it. How is the company culture and potential to IPO/get acquired?
I think Nextdoor has lots of potential. Too bad they didn’t have PM openings during the time I was changing job. It’s a real community idea and data collection that you can monetize a lot if you do it right.
For an IC role or a managerial role?
IC, 4 YOE
They remind me a little bit of groupon. There was a groupon clone that was something about moms coupon club or something approached our food business about running a deal, and I remember thinking wow, low barrier to entry means low potential... the only way these things can work is if they either get enough users to dwarf competitors or they get enough useful data mined that they can leverage that. Old lady Mary on the corner saying she saw a creeper in the alley probably want constitute valuable data.
Old lady Mary saying she saw a creeper won't be very valuable, but knowing where Old lady Mary lives with accuracy is pretty valuable wouldn't you say?
Can you consider it intentional hampering of growth though? Because isn’t that really the core value of your dataset? I.e. you can’t really ever decide to not do that hampering because then you’d lose everything that nextdoor currently is
I use it. Platform has potential.
I’m a member. It’s good for a lot of uses but I find the signal to noise ratio on the feed to be too high for my liking.
I know people who went there. Fun spot but hard business model.
Not hard at all, tbh. Lots of verticals with good targeting model wrt monetization. Happy to answer any questions you might have!
I'm open to taking risks with smaller companies but I need to get a feeling that it is undervalued/underrated and poised for something big. How's the work culture / hours like? And is the comp competitive? Is the stock comp in options or RSUs? (If options, 90-day exercise window?)