🚨 New Podcast Episode with Talia Goldberg 🚨

Summer diversity apps are open + a lot of Elon Musk news.

🏡 community updates 🏡

• In this week's episode of Office Hours, Andrew Xu and Daniel Aboul-Hassan speak with Talia Goldberg (@TaliaGold) from Bessemer Venture Partners! Listen here.

  • 🌟 Why is DRF such a strong platform for college students interested in startups?

  • 🍂 How does Bessemer think through developments in Web3 and crypto

  • 😊 What are 2 of Talia’s personal goals for 2022?

  • 🌱 How did the Bessemer analyst program shape Talia’s venture education?

    

• Congratulations to DRF portfolio company HighTouch on their acquisition of Workbase, a workflow automation startup! It is the team’s first acquisition to date.

• Shoutout to DRF portfolio company Snackpass on being named to a16z’s 2022 Marketplace 100 list!

• LinkedIn updates: Matt Piccolella joins Notion as product lead and Philippe Griffiths co-chairs Stanford’s Africa Business Forum

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

📱 tech news

• Elon Musk’s tunnel making venture is now valued at $5.7 billion

• An Apple store in Atlanta becomes the first to file to unionize

• Elon Musk announces he has $46.5 in funding to finance his Twitter offer

• Amazon launches a $1 billion fund targeting companies working on supply chain and/or logistics issues

📣 new startup + VC jobs 📣

full-time

• Linse Capital - Associate

• Pachama - Chief of Staff

• aMoon Fund - Late Stage Associate

• Drem - Founding Front-End Engineer

• Voyager Ventures - Summer Associate

internships

• TruEra - Product Management Intern

• Feathery - Product Design Intern

• Apeel - Digital Marketing Intern

• Alpaca VC - Marketing Intern

📖 great reads 📖

• The New York Times examines Barack Obama’s new campaign to fight disinformation.

• Twitter’s board adopts “poison pill” plan to defend against Elon Musk’s bid. Here’s how Musk could respond.

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