Breakout List 2019: Great Companies To Apply To π
“If you join a company, my general advice is to join a company on a breakout trajectory.”
βΒ Sam Altman, President at Y Combinator
Breakout growth creates breakout opportunities.
Investors know which companies are doing well. And candidates are making an even bigger bet β 100% of their working time on one company. Candidates deserve to know which companies are growing and which companies are stagnant. Because when you’re a candidate, you’re betting your career. Breakout List researches and identifies great companies for you.
Discover the companies you’ll want to apply to. Further your career.
Find the company you deserve. Find your tribe.
Efficiently find opportunities that are uniquely suited to you and what you want by reading the key takeaways.
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| Airtable |
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What Airtable makes: A part-spreadsheet, part-database tool that allows business users to create powerful collaborative applications and workflows. Meaningful work: Airtable’s mission is to democratize software creation by enabling anyone to build the tools that meet their needs. Opportunities for growth: Grew team from 30 to 70 during 2018 and doubled again during 2019. Investors include CRV, Caffeinated Capital, Benchmark, Thrive, Coatue, Freestyle and DCVC. |
π₯ Airtable Careers: Reasons to Applyπ Airtable |
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| Blend |
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What Blend makes: Software for lenders to enable more efficient lending. Opportunities for growth: Grew team from 350 to 450 in the past year. Critical in the world of COVID: Several of Blend’s business lines are actually seeing stronger demand in this environment, for example, the lower interest rates has caused a big refinance boom in the mortgage industry. Our software is helping banks and lenders deal with all that volume. Blend is hiring across all departments! Investors include General Atlantic, Temasek, Greylock and Founders Fund. If you’re interested in Blend, we’d recommend 1) watching this video about the family story of their CEO, Nima, 2) watching this video interview by Fortune, and 3) checking out this article about Blend’s most recent $130 milllion fundraise. |
π Blend |
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| Bolt |
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What Bolt makes: Better-than-Amazon checkout experience for the rest of the internet, with zero fraud and frictionless payments. Opportunities for growth: Grew team from 15 to 70+ during 2018. Strong revenue trajectory. Uniquely determined CEO. Meaningful work: Fight back against consolidation in online commerce. Bolt’s frictionless checkout and pioneering fraud detection drives proven revenue lift for independent retailers. Their vision is for frictionless and secure transactions across the internet. Investors include Floodgate, and founders of PayPal, Intuit and Oculus. |
π₯ Bolt Careers: Reasons to Applyπ Bolt |
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| Career Advice: Should You Move On |
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If you can only answer βyesβ to zero or one of those questions, you should definitely leave. β Auren Hoffman |
π Should You Move On |
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| Clearbit |
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What Clearbit makes: Data enrichment APIs for marketers, salespeople and developers. Interesting work: Building the future of modern marketing by mapping the entire business world and classifying it with ML and AI. Opportunities for growth: Grew team from 25 to 60 in the past year, on track for 120+ by the end of 2019. Investors include SV Angel, FRC, Naval Ravikant, Ilya Sukhar and Hiten Shah. |
π₯ Clearbit Careers: Reasons to Applyπ Clearbit |
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| Newfront |
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What Newfront makes: Modern platform to transact insurance. Opportunities for growth: Looking to grow the team from 130 to 350 by the end of 2020.Β Substantial opportunities for entrepreneurial engineers and smart generalists to integrate complex operations and product. Ideal for those who want to see how a full stack startup is built from the ground up. Meaningful work: Human-computer symbiosis that empowers rather than replaces people. Investors are tier-one and so far unannounced. |
π Newfront |
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| Career Advice: Cal Newport |
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If your goal is to love what you do, I discovered, βfollow your passionβ can be bad advice. Itβs more important to become good at something rare and valuable, and then invest the career capital this generates into the type of traits that make a job great. The traits of control and mission are two good places to start. β Cal Newport |
π Cal Newport |
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| Career Advice: How Will You Measure Your Life? |
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“How Will You Measure Your Life” by Clay Christensen: Youβll be most glad if you optimize for as much challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth as possible. In addition, get a baseline of enough βhygiene factorsβ (status, compensation, job security, work conditions) that you arenβt actively dissatisfied or frustrated. |
π How Will You Measure Your Life? |
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| Reserve |
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What Reserve makes: A stable cryptocurrency. Reserve is building a universal store of value. Currently at a pre-breakout stage. This is a high-potential-impact company that’ll be a great fit for some people. Very strong culture. Investors include Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Coinbase. |
π₯ Reserve Careers: Reasons to Applyπ Reserve |
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| comma |
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What comma makes: Self-driving car OS. Unique team: CEO George Hotz previously developed well-known iPhone jailbreaks and other things. Build valuable skills: Autonomous vehicle engineering is a valuable skill. Meaningful work: Self-driving cars are a transformational technology. The sooner self-driving cars work well, the better. Currently at a pre-breakout stage. This is a high-potential-impact company that’ll be a great fit for some people. Investors include A16Z. |
π₯ comma Careers: Reasons to Applyπ comma |
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| Name | Logo | Notes | Tags | Links |
Airtable
What Airtable makes: A part-spreadsheet, part-database tool that allows business users to create powerful collaborative applications and workflows.
Meaningful work: Airtable’s mission is to democratize software creation by enabling anyone to build the tools that meet their needs.
Opportunities for growth: Grew team from 30 to 70 during 2018 and doubled again during 2019.
Investors include CRV, Caffeinated Capital, Benchmark, Thrive, Coatue, Freestyle and DCVC.
π₯ Airtable Careers: Reasons to Apply
π Airtable
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have Airtable on the homepage for the next release.
Blend
What Blend makes: Software for lenders to enable more efficient lending.
Opportunities for growth: Grew team from 350 to 450 in the past year.
Critical in the world of COVID: Several of Blend’s business lines are actually seeing stronger demand in this environment, for example, the lower interest rates has caused a big refinance boom in the mortgage industry. Our software is helping banks and lenders deal with all that volume. Blend is hiring across all departments!
Investors include General Atlantic, Temasek, Greylock and Founders Fund.
If you’re interested in Blend, we’d recommend 1) watching this video about the family story of their CEO, Nima, 2) watching this video interview by Fortune, and 3) checking out this article about Blend’s most recent $130 milllion fundraise.
π Blend
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have Blend on the homepage for the next release.
Bolt
What Bolt makes: Better-than-Amazon checkout experience for the rest of the internet, with zero fraud and frictionless payments.
Opportunities for growth: Grew team from 15 to 70+ during 2018. Strong revenue trajectory.
Uniquely determined CEO.
Meaningful work: Fight back against consolidation in online commerce. Bolt’s frictionless checkout and pioneering fraud detection drives proven revenue lift for independent retailers. Their vision is for frictionless and secure transactions across the internet.
Investors include Floodgate, and founders of PayPal, Intuit and Oculus.
π₯ Bolt Careers: Reasons to Apply
π Bolt
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have Bolt on the homepage for the next release.
Career Advice: Should You Move On
are you growing fast and is the company helping to promote your growth?
do you enjoy working with your colleagues and are you learning from them?
are you being compensated fairly?
If you can only answer βyesβ to zero or one of those questions, you should definitely leave.
β Auren Hoffman
π Should You Move On
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have Should You Move On on the homepage for the next release.
Clearbit
What Clearbit makes: Data enrichment APIs for marketers, salespeople and developers.
Interesting work: Building the future of modern marketing by mapping the entire business world and classifying it with ML and AI.
Opportunities for growth: Grew team from 25 to 60 in the past year, on track for 120+ by the end of 2019.
Investors include SV Angel, FRC, Naval Ravikant, Ilya Sukhar and Hiten Shah.
π₯ Clearbit Careers: Reasons to Apply
π Clearbit
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have Clearbit on the homepage for the next release.
Newfront
What Newfront makes: Modern platform to transact insurance.
Opportunities for growth: Looking to grow the team from 130 to 350 by the end of 2020.Β
Substantial opportunities for entrepreneurial engineers and smart generalists to integrate complex operations and product. Ideal for those who want to see how a full stack startup is built from the ground up.
Meaningful work: Human-computer symbiosis that empowers rather than replaces people.
Investors are tier-one and so far unannounced.
π Newfront
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have Newfront on the homepage for the next release.
Career Advice: Cal Newport
If your goal is to love what you do, I discovered, βfollow your passionβ can be bad advice.
Itβs more important to become good at something rare and valuable, and then invest the career capital this generates into the type of traits that make a job great.
The traits of control and mission are two good places to start.
β Cal Newport
π Cal Newport
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have Cal Newport on the homepage for the next release.
Career Advice: How Will You Measure Your Life?
“How Will You Measure Your Life” by Clay Christensen:
Youβll be most glad if you optimize for as much challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth as possible.
In addition, get a baseline of enough βhygiene factorsβ (status, compensation, job security, work conditions) that you arenβt actively dissatisfied or frustrated.
π How Will You Measure Your Life?
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have How Will You Measure Your Life? on the homepage for the next release.
Reserve
What Reserve makes: A stable cryptocurrency.
Reserve is building a universal store of value.
Currently at a pre-breakout stage. This is a high-potential-impact company that’ll be a great fit for some people. Very strong culture.
Investors include Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Coinbase.
π₯ Reserve Careers: Reasons to Apply
π Reserve
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have Reserve on the homepage for the next release.
comma
What comma makes: Self-driving car OS.
Unique team: CEO George Hotz previously developed well-known iPhone jailbreaks and other things.
Build valuable skills: Autonomous vehicle engineering is a valuable skill.
Meaningful work: Self-driving cars are a transformational technology. The sooner self-driving cars work well, the better. Currently at a pre-breakout stage. This is a high-potential-impact company that’ll be a great fit for some people.
Investors include A16Z.
π₯ comma Careers: Reasons to Apply
π comma
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have comma on the homepage for the next release.
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