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Angellist spotlight, internship at Reddit, founding operations lead at Harper
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Spotlight: AngelList
Today’s spotlight is on AngelList. Thanks to the AngelList team for sharing behind-the-scenes details and supporting next play.
If you work in tech, you probably have heard of AngelList. AngelList first launched in 2010 as an angel investor matchmaking email list that helped the likes of Uber raise their seed round. Since then, they’ve evolved into a leading fintech startup that builds infrastructure that powers the startup economy. They offer software focused on Funds (fund formation & scaling), Equity (cap table management, Roll Up Vehicles), and Capital (Limited).
So how does an organization like AngelList do it? How do they keep innovating, or as one of their founders calls it: “innovating on innovation.”? And perhaps the question of this essay — what type of culture have they created internally such that they are able to sustainably launch new industry-leading products? What is it really like to work at AngelList?
AngelList has done a uniquely great job attracting entrepreneurial talent: “AngelList is a meta-startup of sorts and tends to attract really entrepreneurial people. About one quarter of the engineering team has founded companies in the past, with many others on the team with aspirations to bring their ideas to life in the future. We have a high trust and high ownership culture where you're expected to operate as a CEO of your own domain in the company, which works really well with the entrepreneurial view.”
Hiring former founders — and generally people who: can operate without needing micro-instruction, take accountability for their work, tackle ambiguous problems, and build solutions quickly — is perhaps AngelList’s secret ingredient that enables their ability to scale the business from an angel investor / job board to a fintech leader.
“Remove your title from your identity. You are not a software engineer/designer/ops person – you are someone who will help the company (& our customers) win. Everything boils down to agency. You have a lot of agency at AngelList and you can make an impact on anything. If you think the help center isn't doing a good job - build a better one and push it live.”
A great example of this is with AngelList’s Roll Up Vehicles, a first (and only)-of-its-kind innovation that allows startups to raise big and small checks from up to 250 investors in a single line on their cap table. The team that built this product was composed of a single engineer.
You can read more details here.
AngelList is hiring for nearly every department: customer success, operations, business, engineering, marketing, and product design. If you think you may be a fit, you can apply here and mention next play in the “Additional Information” section.
And if you are working on a new company, consider building it on AngelList. You can sign up for AngelList here.
Early-stage opportunities:
Priyang from Healia is hiring a business operations specialist. Healia enables companies to cover the expenses of employees on their spouse's health plan, saving companies $10k per enrollee. You can learn more and apply here.
Neha from just words is building a platform to help you scale hyper-personalized messaging with AI. They are hiring new grad engineers and designers. You can learn more and apply here.
Conor from Keye is building an ai-platform to speed up due diligence during m&a. They are making their first non-technical hire - looking for a generalist businessperson. You can learn more and apply here.
Richard from Roe is building a data warehouse to query unstructured data like docs, webs, and more. They are hiring a founding account executive. You can learn more and apply here.
Bruno from Jestor is hiring a sales development representative. They are building a no-code platform designed for scale. You can learn more and apply here.
Dakotah from Harper is hiring a founding operations lead. Harper is an ai-native commerical insurance brokerage. You can learn more and apply here.
Varun from 1stCollab is building a performance-optimized influencer marketing platform. They are hiring a customer success manager. You can learn more and apply here.
Valon wants to empower every homeowner. They are hiring a business operations intern. You can learn more and apply here.
Later-stage opportunities:
Mintlify's platform reaches 20m+ developers every year and power the documentation of 5000+ companies including Anthropic, Scale AI, Cursor, X, Perplexity, Zapier, and over 20% of the last YC batch. They are hiring an engineer. You can learn more and apply here.
Coinbase is hiring a user research intern. You can learn more and apply here.
Reddit is hiring a machine learning intern. They are also hiring a product management intern. You can learn more and apply here and here.
Lyft is hiring a financial planning and analysis intern. You can learn more and apply here.
Waymo is hiring a summer intern to work on ML runtime optimization. You can learn more and apply here.
Samsung is hiring a research intern. You can learn more and apply here.
Other:
Jared from Avenir is hiring an investment analyst for a 2-year program. You can learn more and apply here.
Piva Capital is hiring an intern. You can learn more and apply here.
Sharran from Mighty Capital is looking for an intern. You can reach out here: sharran@mighty.capital.
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