Another 🦄 in the DRF fam!
📎 Plus software engineer roles at Sparrow and MetaMap
DRF fam! We’re excited to have everyone back for the new year. Tune in for more DRF news, tech content, and other info as we get this party starteddddd 🚀
Our latest 🦄!
💥 congratulations to our DRF fam
Isabelle Zhou, former SF managing partner, joined Floodgate.
Shawn Xu joined On Deck as a founding partner for ODX, their new $150M venture fund and accelerator.
Watch Doola Deathcare, a DRF community company, on BBC World News.
📎 tech news
Netflix might need to chill: The company will raise prices on all plans in the US.
Oof, loan shark’s ploy backfired: Navient, one of the largest student loan companies, reached a $1.85B deal with 39 states for charging students with debts they knew the students couldn’t repay.
Bolt, which provides online checkout solutions, raised $355M.
#Instagram became the top downloaded app again!
#fyp #foryoupage: TikTok surpassed Google as the most visited website on the internet, garnering 3B downloads.
Mental health alert: A content moderator of TikTok sued the company for failing to protect her mental health, citing exposure to graphic videos.
Vroom vroom, put away the games: Tesla agreed not to allow drivers to play video games while driving.
More Tesla news, but this man was over it: A Tesla owner blew up his new car instead of footing $22,600 to replace a battery, The Verge reported.
Old news but just in case: YC now invests $500K into new investments.
📂 startup + VC jobs
Sparrow: senior backend software engineer, associate backend software engineer, junior backend software engineer, email harrison.hochman@sparrowfi.com
Merch (formerly Upparel): integrations engineer
Paradigm: investment associate, data software engineer, front end software engineer, legal operations, research associate
Here: chief of staff
Ripple Ventures: associate
Pillar VC: crypto associate
First Round Capital: community manager
Echosec: engineering, sales, product
Over 100 jobs at MetaMap
Coinbase: community analyst
Mike Maples at Floodgate: chief of staff, email shawn@beondeck.com
📌 internships
Emerson Collective: five MBA summer associates
Switch Ventures: MBA internship
Precursor Ventures: internship
Lerer Hippeau: summer associates
Costanoa Access Fellowship: summer internship
MasterClass: product manager intern
LinkedIn: product design intern
Curology: MBA growth intern
Dropbox: launch (technical) intern
Pinterest: data science or product analyst intern
Financial Times: tech dev summer intern
Wayfair: software engineering intern
WhatsApp: product design intern
Spotify: business strategy intern
On Deck: scale intern
📗 consider a contest or fellowship
Black New Venture Competition: up to $275K for black entrepreneurs
First Round’s Fast Track Mentorship: looking for mentors and mentees
Norrsken Impact Accelerator: 2022 apps now open
EneryTech University Prize: chance to win over $250K. Deadline: Jan. 31.
VentureWell E-Team Grant Program: solutions to social, health, and environmental changes. Deadline: Feb. 2.
Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge: share $1M. Deadline: Feb. 11.
📖 cool reads
How the founders of boam help you find the next meal
Why she left her finance job for social impact
Books, podcasts, and newsletters to round up your year
Justine Moore, author of Accelerated, on VC recruiting
😂 meme 😂
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