🥁 DRF alum on a Times Square billboard
Summer diversity track episodes out on our podcast "Office Hours" 📣
🏡 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 👀
🌞 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
Christie’s: 2022 summer intern
Greylock: marketing intern
📖 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. 🚀