.@hirechain_io turned 3 in October!
We've been busy and have onboarded 100s of crypto companies who now rely on us for their hiring.
August set a new record for us and it looks like October might beat *every* one of our records in one go.
Very proud of the team and extremely excited to launch new products, work with incredible new partners and continue to make hiring more efficient in crypto.
We're just getting started.
Created and assigned 4 beefy tickets for each one of my engineers related to sports markets
20 hours later and all the work is done
@pumpcade engineering team ships at an unfathomable pace
I can confidently say that our sports markets are one of the most fun things onchain
We are pushing hard to get sports markets live in the @pumpcade open beta.
Good news on that front. As of tomorrow, we will have access to ultra realtime sports data.
We'll aim to start with World Cup and MLB markets, and expand as interest grows.
Sportcade.
Since we’ve started building @pumpcade, we’ve been saying it’s not like other prediction markets. This sports release will prove we weren’t kidding.
The vast majority of prediction markets for sports feel like a finance product pasted on top of a sports event, but fast resolution changes what’s possible. You can build markets around moments within the game, not just the final outcome.
We’ve never really had a product that let you call the next 5 minutes of a football game. Or the next 2 innings of a baseball game. Or whether the Knicks will be down by 15 after the 3rd quarter. Prediction markets that are settled instantly open up a whole new set of questions.
For example:
“Will Steph Curry hit over 4 threes in the next 5 minutes?”
“Will the Phillies hit a grand slam in the next 3 innings?”
“Will there be a red card in regulation?”
Those are the kinds of things that fast resolution make possible.
But the bigger idea is not to just build a better prediction market, it’s making something people would open even if they weren’t interested in the markets. Good context, good visuals, and keeps you in the action.
Which sport should we tackle first?
Hiring isn't just about visibility. If you make a post on every single job board and get 1000x reach on here the right person *might* see the job but 1000s of people that aren't right for the job will also apply.
Every good candidate for this role will have questions.
They aren't going to publicly ask you to follow them so you can DM them.
Hiring needs multiple touch points. In an ideal world every potential candidate that engaged with your post is reached out to. That's a lot of work but with the right systems very doable.
Hiring is HARD. Just use @hirechain_io
Pumpcade has officially entered Open Testnet Beta
During beta, we will be:
1. Stress testing our infrastructure
2. Integrating our new world class parimutuel protocol
3. Building a best in class experience
Report bugs/feedback using the chat button
https://t.co/KuttnyzQkc
This weekend I pulled 57,422 job listings from 1600 companies to see what opportunities exist and where. There are some big tech companies included, but the majority are venture backed startups.
1 in 5 jobs are exclusive to the Bay Area or NYC and remote jobs pay less.
His post is pretty clear to me and I think it's a fair picture of the market from someone with a lot of data (mirrors what we have seen too).
A decent % of companies now want in person - that's impacting a lot of people's job search...even candidates that will get approached and are considered "top tier".
Looking for someone to help a client in the US add 100 people.
You'll lead internal talent ops and progress to talent lead.
Incredible opportunity for the right person.
Would suit someone excited by the challenges of hiring at breakneck speed.
- experienced managing ops / coordinating across busy teams (doesn't need to be recruitment but preferred)
- interested in moving in to a talent lead role and excited to make this function your own
Must be based in NYC.
DM me.
The job will be up on Hirechain shortly. Find me someone this week and I'll pay you $10K.
@marcelolebre Some of these complexities just stop people in their tracks.
Remote is great but understanding things like 14 pay cycles plus an additional 700/mo is a deal breaker in a lot of cases.
A lot of thought goes into making Pumpcade feel like a degen-friendly, internet-native schizo app.
That is what makes the app feel native to the internet instead of another sterile trading terminal.
But underneath that, we think ultra-short-duration markets are an underexplored primitive. Pumpcade markets let users express bounded, discrete views on very short windows of time.
Not:
"Will BTC go up eventually?"
More like:
"Will this move happen in the next minute?"
That distinction matters.
The internet moves in bursts. Attention moves in bursts. Volatility moves in bursts.
You see this in long-term prediction markets all the time:
A strong candidate gives a bad speech. Odds swing violently. Then the market cools off and mean-reverts.
The long-term thesis may not have changed, but the short-term dislocation was real, which is where Pumpcade gets interesting.
There are already financial tools for holding a long-term thesis - Pumpcade lets you trade the violent path inside that thesis.
The consumer app looks chaotic because the internet is chaotic. That is by design!
But the primitive underneath is serious:
Fast, bounded, instantly resolved markets for internet-speed outcomes.
pumpcade focusing on deflationary tokenomics built around platform activity, all usage metrics will directly benefit the token
the concerns around the equity / token split was misguided, team wanted *more* of the token because they intend it to be core part of platform launch