From the Operators
Mandy Cole, former VP of Sales at Zenefits, Living Social and MyNewPlace shares practical sales advice for building scales programs and teams in “The Playbook To Scaling Sales”
Sendgrid CEO Sameer Dholakia is featured in Forbes for his servant leadership approach in “The Unusual Management Style Of One Of The Most Highly Rated CEOs In Tech”
Elle O’Brien, engineer, professor, and researcher at University of Washington, explains how she used a neural network to create “Romance Novels, Generated by Artificial Intelligence”
From the Investors
Donna Harris, co-founder of 1776, shares her stories of why you should go to HR in “I Didn’t Complain to HR“, and asks others to share their stories with #didntcomplaintoHR
Ben Black, Co-founder and Managing Director of Akkadian Ventures, talks about how VCs raising from LPs is quite similar to founders raising from VCs in “Creative Strategies for Finding LP Investors for Your Venture Fund”
Jobs!
Gabe Marcial at AwayTravel dropped a note about some awesome career opps!
What they do: Thoughtful luggage (read: suitcase that looks good and can charge your phone)
Hiring for: Email / Retention Marketing Lead and Senior Associate, Search Marketing
In his own words: Founded by two Warby Parker alums, we’re on track for ~$50MM top line in our first full calendar year and are growing fast. Join us and you’ll come along on our next international team trip! (This year was Nicaragua.) And if you can’t wait, venture forth with our generous vacation policy. We’ll provide your suitcase, of course.