Career Advice: Optimize for Contribution

Flexport

What Flexport makes: Freight forwarder enabling more efficient shipping.

Opportunities for growth: Grew team from 450 to 850 in the past year. Engineering team is about 103 people.

Meaningful work: Shipment of goods is an important component of the economy. Faster and cheaper shipping can boost economic growth, which over the long run tends to bring better lives to all.

Investors include Founders Fund, YC, Susa, Initialized, FRC, DST, 8VC, Bloomberg Beta and GV.

👉 Flexport

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Nuro

What Nuro makes: An autonomous vehicle for autonomous last-mile delivery.

Opportunities for growth: Nuro has grown from 0 to over 200 employees in two years, primarily in software, AI, ML and vision. Autonomous last mile delivery will have massive consumer demand. Autonomy will substantially reduce delivery prices, thereby increasing demand.

Build valuable skills: Engineering for delivery and on-demand logistics is likely to remain a strong growth area.

Investors include Greylock Partners.

👉 Nuro

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Career Advice: Should You Move On

1. are you growing fast and is the company helping to promote your growth?

2. do you enjoy working with your colleagues and are you learning from them?

3. are you being compensated fairly?

If you can only answer “yes” to zero or one of those questions, you should definitely leave.

– Auren Hoffman

👉 Should You Move On

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Blend

What Blend makes: Software for lenders to enable more efficient lending.

Opportunities for growth: Grew team from 270 to 400 in the past year.

Meaningful work: Help ensure that the right people can get loans.

Investors include A16Z, Initialized, LSVP, Greylock Partners, 8VC, and Emergence.

👉 Blend

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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.

👉 Clearbit

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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+ in the past year. 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.

👉 Bolt

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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 in the past year.

Investors include CRV, Caffeinated Capital, Benchmark, Thrive, Coatue, Freestyle and DCVC.

👉 Airtable

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Career Advice: Cal Newport

If your goal is to love what you do, I discovered, “follow your passion” can be bad advice.

It’s 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.

– Cal Newport

👉 Cal Newport

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Ubiquity6

What Ubiquity6 makes: Tools to enable developers to create augmented reality apps.

Meaningful work: Build augmented reality infrastructure. Augmented reality can be a human enhancement tool, and will enable many old problems to be solved in new ways.

Engineering-heavy small team.

Currently at a pre-breakout stage. This is a high-potential-impact company that’ll be a great fit for some people.

Investors include Benchmark, KPCB, Index, FRC and Gradient.

👉 Ubiquity6

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Career Advice: How Will You Measure Your Life?

“How Will You Measure Your Life” by Clay Christensen:

You’ll 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 “hygiene factors” (status, compensation, job security, work conditions) that you aren’t actively dissatisfied or frustrated.

👉 How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Atrium

What Atrium makes: A law firm for startups to enable better legal services.

Experienced team: CEO Justin Kan sold a company he co-founded for close to $1bn. Engineers have access to Justin as a mentor.

Work in cross-functional squads with “engineers, product owners, product designers, and legal subject matter experts.”

Investors include GC, YC, and A16Z.

👉 Atrium

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Reserve

What Reserve makes: A stable cryptocurrency.

Reserve is building a universal store of value. Backed by Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, Coinbase and others.

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.

👉 Reserve

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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.

👉 comma

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