🚨 So excited to announce a new adventure:
I’m launching the NEXT community for startup job-seekers! 🤩
NEXT brings together entrepreneurial mid-career and exec-level people who are intentionally thinking about what they want in their next chapters 🚀
Kind of surreal to be quoted in @Inc's cover story on the wave of entrepreneurial people leaving big companies to build or join startups.
Shoutout to @issielapowsky for a great piece capturing this trend – thanks for including me and @joinnextcareers!
The best companies effortlessly attract top talent. According to @antnar, their secret is self-awareness.
The organizations crushing hiring know exactly who they are and what they stand for.
→ Their culture
→ Their values
→ Their people
🙏 I’m so grateful to truly HUNDREDS of people who have helped build NEXT:
speakers leading over 100 live events
dozens of VC firms recruiting for their portco’s
those referring their most talented friends
amazing members co-creating NEXT with me
https://t.co/HfFkNqVgnZ
I remember how nervous I felt a year ago when launching NEXT 🫣
Absolutely crazy that we’ve welcomed 300 members in the past year, selected from over 2,000 applicants 🤯
Know an entrepreneurial senior or recent grad looking for a role at the center of the startup and venture ecosystem? We’re hiring at @joinnextcareers! 🚀
Our new Ops Associate will partner with me on every aspect of building NEXT. Based in LA.
https://t.co/tirv3pKewL
During Cohort 2, we hosted 30+ live events over 8 weeks:
- VC firms looking to hire talent
- Career coach-led workshops
- Recruiter AMAs and practice sessions
+ curated small group peer masterminds 🤗
@joinnextcareers
Learn more: https://t.co/rcZSdooFCM
Applications for the third NEXT cohort are open. Kicking off late Feb 🎉
In Cohort 2 we had:
- 850 applicants
- 100 exec and mid-career job-seekers selected
- 75% startup veterans and 25% pivoting
- 30% deciding founder vs joiner
- 20% founders transitioning to operating
Excited to announce Startup Ratings—A website where current & former employees candidly review the companies they've worked at.
Upvote us on Product Hunt and contribute a review to get indefinite access to our company database, with already 100+ reviews:
https://t.co/X1Hm6EbZ8V
I hear about the greatest number of interesting early stage startups nowadays from my one robotics engineer friend who is looking for a job.
Someone should run with this and make an Unemployed Ventures where they just enlist job seekers as scouts
Ever see someone’s new job announcement and wonder how they actually landed that role? 🧐
Excited to host a @joinnextcareers discussion next Tues 9/19 at 9am PT to dig into the mechanics of how people are landing startup roles right now.
👉 https://t.co/qNNb2a2I6f
@JuliaLipton Yes!
@RyanHVaughn writes Inside-Out Leadership with great suggestions for the founder journey, both the mental health side and fundamentals of building 🙌
https://t.co/RY9wV0Czcg
During Cohort 1, we hosted 40 live events over 8 weeks 😅
- VC firms looking to hire talent
- Career coach-led workshops
- Recruiter AMAs and practice sessions
+ curated small group peer masterminds 🤗
@joinnextcareers
Learn more: https://t.co/HfFkNqVgnZ
Applications for the second NEXT cohort are now open! Kicking off early Oct 🎉
In Cohort 1 we had:
- 500 applicants
- 100 mid-career and exec-level job-seekers chosen to participate
- 80% startup veterans and 20% pivoting into startups
- 75% based in SF, NY and LA