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Summer diversity track episodes out on our podcast "Office Hours" 📣

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Apr 30
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🏡 community update 🏡

  • Drum roll 🥁 We have a DRF alum, Tanthai, on a Times Square billboard! Catch him in our latest “Office Hours” podcast episode on Spotify with content associate Souhail Siddiqi. And follow Mad Realities’ latest $6 million raise, including an investment from Paris Hilton. We hear Tanthai hosts the show 👀

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is this how you're supposed to burn venture money
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April 27th 2022

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🌞 summer diversity tracks

  • Apps have opened for our summer diversity tracks. Virtual evening commitment, works well with a full-time internship. Tell your friends!

    1. Blueprint: for our Black, Latinx, and Indigenous friends. Deadline: May 4

    2. Female Investor Track. Deadline: May 4

    3. Female Founder Track. Deadline: May 11

    4. PRISM: for our LGBTQ+ friends. Deadline: May 4

    5. PhD Track: Deadline: May 23

  • Content associates Daniel Aboul-Hassan and Andrew Xu have interviewed leads for the summer diversity tracks on our DRF podcast. Tune in for diversity app advice, beginning with episodes about the Blueprint track and PRISM.

📱 tech news

  • Bolt, checkout startup worth $11 billion, losing customers

  • Not so boring: Elon Musk’s Boring Co. raises $675 million to solve traffic

    • Nine years after the first proposal, Boring Co. will test Hyperloop, a new mode of transportation that includes a vacuum environment in a tunnel to move vehicles faster

  • Yikes to this NYTimes title: Why Netflix is the worst performing stock in the S&P 500. Shares in Apple, Google, and Microsoft have fallen this year, but Netflix is facing an even harsher punishment.

new startup + VC jobs 📣

full-time

  • Riot Ventures: investment team

  • Evergrow: senior software engineer

  • Uniswap Labs: roles in design and product, engineering, growth & strategy, operations, and people

  • SnackMagic: product manager

  • Coinbase: blockchain associate

  • Notion: business strategy and operations

internships

  • Cowboy Ventures: strategy and operations intern

  • Zoom: PM intern

  • Uber: performance marketing intern

  • Christie’s: 2022 summer intern

  • Greylock: marketing intern

Twitter avatar for @janehkJane Lippencott @janehk
I’m hiring an intern to work with me this summer @a16z crypto Biased toward technical exp (ongoing CS degree is fine), 1+ internship exp @ tech co/startup, deep philosophical alignment w/ crypto. US-based remote is ok Pls send resume & why you like web3 to crypto-jobs@a16z.com

April 26th 2022

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📖 great reads 📖

  • Content associate Kevin Wu: My journey to DRF, from Berkeley

  • Reducing busy work in gym with IRON founders

😂 meme 😂

for our beloved DRF seniors

Written by head of content Anne Wen (annewen@dormroomfund.com). For more fun, check out our Twitter + website + company app. Send jokes, criticisms, and hot takes to info@dormroomfund.com. 🚀

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