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8 Oct 2025
America's frontier is in unlocking our hidden talent 🇺🇸
8 Oct 2025
We raised $6M for @MeritFirstUS, co-led by @8vc (@JTLonsdale @andrewoetting) and @slow (@lessin) with participation from @rauchg to restore merit to hiring and help revitalize the American Dream, where opportunity is promised and outcomes are earned.
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Jun 11
This assessment is pretty fun ... take the challenge for VC and see how you stack up -- it is hard :)
meritfirst.us/challenges/vc-…
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Jun 11
fun little challenge we built @MeritFirstUS - prove your VC skillset is stronger than @lessin!
Jun 11
This assessment is pretty fun ... take the challenge for VC and see how you stack up -- it is hard :)
meritfirst.us/challenges/vc-…
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Jun 2
.@databricks is hiring a Chief of Staff to the CPO (Chief People Officer) for up to $322K.
Your role will be to help drive operational excellence, strategic alignment, and execution across the Databricks People org.
Naturally, a key focus will be scaling AI across the team to automate routine work, accelerate insights, improve decision-making, and fundamentally change how the team operates at scale.
Link to apply in thread!
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Jun 1
Mechanical Engineers.
America needs you.
Join us on a mission to save the American Dream by industrializing home production and building at a scale never seen before.
We are looking for a Lead Mechanical Engineer to lead the design of our system's Building Shell.
Join a team of engineers and designers redefining how homes our built for the next century.
(apply below)
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May 31
2026 is a fun time to build!
We’re looking to hire more top talent:
1) Social media writer - Help us win the war of ideas. You are an X-native patriot, intuit its molecular physics, write with a real voice, and care more about teaching and inspiring than chasing clicks.
2) Technical builder - we have a running list of media-adjacent companies and tools I've wanted to create for years. You build with AI tools daily, push the limits of what's newly possible, and are committed to the ideas that make our civilization great.
Email BuildWithJoe@8vc.com to apply; we’re only considering full-time hires with integrity who are eager to work hard.
America turns 250 this year, and it’s a great time to celebrate our exceptional civilization. Help us teach and build with ideas and principles to unite and inspire us all to make its next chapters even brighter 🇺🇸.
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May 31
There's no better time to be building AI for healthcare practices.
If you want to work come work on incredibly hard conversational AI challenges, we're hiring at Hello Patient again!
Looking for exceptional:
* Full stack software engineers
* Agent product managers
* Enterprise AEs
* Integration Engineers
Remote is ok, although we heavily bias to Austin or NYC and pay for relocation.
My DMs are always open as well!
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May 18
We're hiring an exceptional designer at SpaceXAI.
Work directly with me and the team to build the future of human <> agent interactions and ship beautiful, intuitive experiences across Grok and X.
job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai…
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May 19
Two important annoucnements:
1. If you aren't yet following @PomelliByGoogle - now's a good time to start 👀
2. I'm hiring a 0-to-1 PM for my team - if you have startup experience, have worked at a bigger company, and are excited about building the future in Google Labs, please apply --> google.com/about/careers/app…
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May 18
Had a ton of inbound so I’m hosting a happy hour! Come meet me and the team 💪
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May 17
Well I’m hiring SWEs who want to work in physical AI.
Be early to the next and final frontier of AI
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May 18
We’re hiring product engineers at @altitude.
We believe the next generation of companies will be built differently: smaller teams, faster cycles, deeper customer understanding and engineers who shape the product and the outcome.
At Altitude, every engineer is a product engineer.
You’ll work with our internal agentic framework to build the future of how businesses manage their money. We’re going to shift the center of gravity from traditional financial rails to newer, better ones.
We’re looking for people who want ownership, ambition and the chance to build something that becomes foundational infrastructure for modern companies.
If you’re not afraid of the climb - DM me with proof of work.
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May 18
we're hiring. generous comp, founding-level equity, ugc-stealth on jennigroup.
if you are:
- technical enough to have shipped things
- someone who understands ugc / content
- startup-pilled enough to find 996 (or more) motivating not depressing
send me a dm with the most impressive piece of work you've owned
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May 19
bullish on Austin 🇺🇸
we're hiring at The American Housing Corporation!
join us in industrializing homebuilding and ending the housing crisis.
full time in Austin, TX with competitive pay, equity, and benefits. apply on our site
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May 16
we're hiring a vp of finance ops @ Loyal
this is a bit of a unicorn role:
- prev exp in milestone-based biz (AKA value creation via tech milestones)
- can build infra for commercial launch of our first drug
- can lead scale teams, be IC in the weeds
bio bckrd not req'd. low ego, mission motivation crucial
job-boards.greenhouse.io/loy…
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May 15
I’m hiring the exact opposite of this AE👇. If you’re selling a shitty product, I want to hire you. For example, If you hit 125% of quota selling the 11th best no-code app builder with 2.3 stars on TrustPilot, DM me ASAP.
I don’t care about your resume. I don’t want a rep that sold at Anthropic. That’s an anti-signal. The best rep I ever hired started his career in sales waking up at 5am every day to upsell TV warranties at Best Buy. That’s the profile of who we want to hire.
OTE 240K-350K OTE (based on segment/seniority) meaningful equity and uncapped commissions.
Best VCs on the cap table, 100 people who are on a generational sprint to own the Revenue Agents category, and a top 1% SDR team to support you.
The next decade of enterprise software gets built by the people in this room. If you want to be in the same room, send an email to me at emir @ hockeystack . com
5x in person at our San Francisco HQ. I'll relocate you from anywhere in the world.
May 2
Anthropic sales call was goated. 15 mins. Guy shows up basically says “It is what it is, player. Here is the link to sign up.” Then bounces.
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May 12
We are HIRING:
Full-Stack Software Engineers at Harmony AI.🦅🦅🦅
We’re scaling our engineering team fast.
Our engineers live in factories across the United States.
They work on-site, in-person, and deploy AI on the factory floor where the work actually happens.
If you’re interested, or know someone great, reach out.
We pay a $10,000 referral fee for successful hires.
Come build the next AI operating system for American manufacturing. 🇺🇸
JOB DESCRIPTION / APPLY BELOW
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May 11
We are growing. So are the people who work here. Hiring @harvey across all roles and geos.
May 11
Which AI company should you work for if you want to optimize for career success?
I used Claude to research career frameworks from 6 prominent entrepreneurs – @eladgil @pmarca @paulg @naval @rabois – and asked it to rank every single AI company into a tier list.
The process: I had Claude pull each person's most iconic essay on career decisions, extract the first principles from each framework, and then score every major AI company against all 8 criteria simultaneously.
The criteria:
1. Wave Riding – Is this company at the epicenter of the most important market shift happening right now?
2. Talent Density – Will your coworkers be the best people you've ever worked with, and will this alumni network compound for decades?
3. Stage & Optionality – Is the company small enough (20-200 people) that you'll wear many hats, with equity that can still appreciate 20-100x?
4. Compounding Learning – Will your rate of learning stay high year after year, and can you become a "barrel" who takes ideas from zero to shipped?
5. Specific Knowledge Leverage – Will you build skills that feel like play to you but look like work to others, with access to code, media, or capital leverage?
6. Curiosity & Mission – Does the work excite genuine intellectual curiosity, and is the company's mission real – not just a recruiting pitch?
7. Equity & Ownership – Do you own a meaningful piece of the outcome, or are you just renting your time for a salary?
8. Brand Signal – Will this name on your resume open every door afterward, and are you building a public reputation through accountability?
What am I missing? Do you agree with this list?
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May 12
A cornerstone to our strategy is hyperlocal communities. We hire “City Managers” to own the GTM playbook of their cities à la Uber/DoorDash.
We are hiring City Managers in Dallas, Nashville, LA, Chicago, Houston, and DC. Globally in Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong, and Dubai.
- Community leader
- “mini CEO”
- 0to1 mentality
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May 11
Hiring a Head of Marketing
Based out of SF, must be fluent in manufacturing, defense, robots, and vibes
Come build the Conduit world with us!
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