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Katie Kirsch
@katiekirsch
startup stuff // new media @a16z
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happy @a16z annual company picnic day 🫶
btw, you can find 19,366 open roles at 858 companies backed by @a16z on this website:
why did my best-performing X post take the least amount of time to write 😭
.@temporalio is hiring a senior manager of technical exec comms for up to $283K in SF you'll help shape the external voice of the co-founders @SamarAtTemporal (CEO) and @mfateev (CTO) this means thinking alongside samar & maxim without a translation layer, and writing in a way that earns a developer audience instead of talking past it your work will span social/short-form voice, long-form content, speaker rep, media relations work, & traveling to work IRL with maxim & samar apply here!
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.@deel is hiring a storytelling comms manager! you'll: - lead comms for deel's thought leadership - drive high-impact, creative storytelling moments - work across blogs, social content, creative/visual materials, and exec comms - partner with the data team to shape deel's insights storytelling apply here!
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excited to share that @chrisellisdc just raised $108M for @thatch_ai to build a healthcare system people love he's hiring across the board: - Head of Design - Data Scientist, Analytics - Software Engineers - Growth Marketing Lead - SEO & Performance Content Lead - Video Creative - Product Manager - Channel Partnerships Manager - Product Designer - Operations Manager apply here:
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amazing opportunity for engineers in TX! @basepowerco (just went from $4B → $13B valuation in less than a year) is opening its Austin HQ for a 48h hackathon from Sept 25-27, with AITX Community - 3 tracks - hackathon judges are base engineers - base is looking to hire, locally, off what you build that weekend space is limited - apply to join here!
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so special to bring @harvey's VP of talent (maggie landers) onto the @a16z pod to talk about harvey's insane growth and what makes working there so special 🫶
.@Harvey hired 1,000 people in 12 months, and will hire 600 more before EOY. 70% of the team joined in 2026. Their valuation's grown to $15.5B in four years. We asked VP Talent Maggie Landers how to build a company culture where 1,000 new hires can run as fast as possible:
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.@Harvey hired 1,000 people in 12 months, and will hire 600 more before EOY. 70% of the team joined in 2026. Their valuation's grown to $15.5B in four years. We asked VP Talent Maggie Landers how to build a company culture where 1,000 new hires can run as fast as possible:
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never be too old to have a benihana birthday 😆 child at heart forever
for years i told my friends that my mom was such a tiger mom that she made me go to Kumon (math bootcamp) after school every day to get faster at math the other day she told me that i was completely wrong apparently kumon was MY idea since there was a boy at school beating me at math and i was sick of losing am i being gaslit or was i really that bay area kid
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today @sophiadew and i covered another packed week of talent moves in tech/AI on @MTSlive the rundown:
our @a16z team is co-hosting an event with @OpenRouter in SF on sep 18th! "the new model dilemma: switch or stay?" it's a lunch & learn for founders and technical leaders building with AI featuring openrouter's head of data & analytics, and head of finance & bizops space is limited; RSVP here!
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another fun day co-hosting the @talent_watching segment with @sophiadew on @MTSlive! 🎤 🚨 today we covered the biggest CEO handoff in tech in years, a wave of major frontier lab hires, and a few meaningful meta departures some highlights: - Pepijn Rijvers joining Airbnb as Chief Business Officer (prev booking dot com, tripadvisor / viator) - @nvidia reportedly agreed to buy @huggingface for $12.9B - @air__security, an AI agent security startup, came out of stealth with $50M and landed Ryan Knisley (ex-CISO of Disney and Costco) as Chief Strategy Officer - @OpenAI added 3 strong hires this week: @feitong_yang (science products), @thenanyu (ex-Linear, joining Codex), and creator/design engineer @covacut - @ElevenLabs hired OpenAI's enterprise sales lead, @ashleyekramer, as CRO - @METR_Evals picked up @derifatives (19 years at Google) and @JoeJBenton (ex-Anthropic) - @Meta had 3 departures: @vincent_jh_cho (→ Thinking Machines), Vikas Chandra (8+ years, Reality Labs AI), and Pinar Donmez (→ Apple) watch the full episode here!
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