Founders You Should Know

New FYSK Video Series 👀🥘🥙 🍽️ Today, we launch our first episode of Lunch Break  — our new video series that lets you meet the people you could be building with during their lunch break convos. No better place to start with than Quanta, the jazz-loving protein enthusiast team that makes accounting fun. Got a recommendation of who we should feature next? Tag them below 🤝 Helen Hastings Verli C. Shivam M. Andrea Davidson Trupal Amin, CPA Avinash Jain Hyden Polikoff

ICYMI: I've been publishing weekly in the Founders You Should Know Substack about all things hiring, job seeking, and community building in the startup world. Some of my recent pieces include: 💻 The side project imperative - why your most powerful differentiator in your startup job search is a well-executed side project (feat. Ashvin Dhawan's fantastic blog pieces) https://lnkd.in/gVCwYnfC 🤓 Your future 10x engineer isn’t actively job seeking - what founders get wrong about jobseeking talent, and how to find superb engineers https://lnkd.in/g5hMgnPt 🏀 The best talent agent is actually just 2000 other engineers - insights from the Meta talent poaches, and why a community serves you even better than a recruiting agent (& my attempts at sports metaphors) https://lnkd.in/gNiHh2xt If you're curious to hear more, here's my shameless plug to subscribe: https://lnkd.in/gru34duY

Three important facts: 1. The US is being obliterated globally in the minerals mining space 2. US mineral companies NEED new tech for mining & refining operations 3. Mariana Minerals (solving 1 & 2) is an insanely cracked team to join Congrats to Turner Caldwell Juan Lozano & team on the announcement 🥳 🚀

Congrats Loren Phillips on the new role at Coval! Loren first connected with the team at our February FYSK showcase 🥳 🚀

Last weeks poaches begged the question: if we’re going to fight for engineers like they’re athletes, shouldn’t engineers get athlete-level representation? Turns out, there's something even stronger than a talent agent for engineers: community. The NBA has 450 players and 30 teams. The tech industry in SF alone has 100x that. Why not leverage the power of collective knowledge and 1000s of data points? Community is your strongest advantage in any search. Read more about why we're all-in on community here ⬇️

Our CEO & Co-Founder Gabriel Hubert shared our vision of being the AI Operating System for fast-moving teams at Founders You Should Know. Watch the link in the comments to learn how Dust can get you from idea to an agent in minutes. We’re hiring across the board in SF and Paris!

this past week I spoke at Founders You Should Know and shared the story of Superpower it's a quarterly event with 300+ of SF's most ambitious engineers and operators looking to join a new startup – can't recommend Founders You Should Know highly enough! grateful to Jennifer Yip, David King, Rachel Eizner, Sarah Pinto Peyronel and Emerson Collective for making this happen.

If you are in SF this week you can't miss Founders You Should Know tomorrow! Two of my favorite European founders are there presenting and you should go see why our 🇪🇺 startup ecosystem is getting stronger by the day producing great global companies in AI: Gabriel Hubert of Dust from Paris talking about Dust building secure, customizable AI agents powered by the best LLMs, all connected to your company’s data Alfred Wahlforss of Listen Labs from Stockholm talking about Listen, an autonomous market researcher that makes research simple and fast with their AI designing the interviews, finding the right participants, and analyzing responses Sign up for it below

Patrick Coleman rocking his new FYSK hoodie after finding his Head of Growth role at Rime Labs through our showcase 🌟 🔥 🥳 Joining us tomorrow at our May 21st showcase? Keep us in the loop if you find your job through the show, and we'll send you some FYSK swag 😎

📣 2 more breakout founders we're featuring next week at our May 21st showcase! 📣 🧪 Jacob Peters from Superpower is revolutionizing how we think about personal health through advanced lab analysis. Next week, he'll be sharing what's next for the company and the ambitious projects they're hiring for. 🎛️ give him 30 seconds, and Sam D'Amico will convince you our energy grid needs an overhaul. At our show, he'll be sharing how his company Impulse redefines what our future energy stability looks like through the sleekest (& most efficient) kitchen appliances on the market. Apply at the link in the comments to secure your spot 🤝