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Hey #Product folks, come work with me and my team! I have another role open. We are growing! The team is amazing, the challenge is exciting, and the mission and vision is inspiring! This is a chance to work for a brand () that is loved and used by billions of people. If this is for you, do apply via the link below. If it's for a friend, do share with that friend, and if you just think it sounds exciting, please share with your network. #hiring #product #jobs #apple https://lnkd.in/dRWZuF3i

How do you build an intentional career? This week the Talent team Sequoia Capital had the pleasure of gathering an exceptional group of rising leaders in tech to explore the idea of building intentional careers. We were lucky to be joined by panellists Laura Gonzalez Florez (Synthesia) Tara Massoudi (Revolut) Ellen (Moeller) McCormack (Watershed) who shared stories about their own career journeys and gave excellent advice on making purposeful career decisions. Hosted by our very own career expert, Franky Roberts. 4 key takeaways that stood out: 🎢 Actually, How Intentional Can You Really Be? Many tech careers, especially in startups, are non-linear. They often start accidentally without a clear North Star – and that’s okay.  Early on, following great people is perhaps the best North Star of all - for example, joining a visionary founder who can attract high-calibre talent could be the most intentional choice you make. 💬 The True Power of Mentors Mentorship doesn’t need to be formal. The best advice often comes from people who don’t even realise they’re mentoring you. Seek out diverse perspectives and direct feedback from people who won’t sugarcoat their advice – they’ll challenge you to grow in unexpected ways. 🧩 Network > Credentials An MBA is by no means a career prerequisite, but it can amplify your network. However, working in high-growth startups often creates even stronger networks. Be intentional about the company you pick to spend the next chapter of your career with. Companies like Stripe and Revolut have done a great job at building tightknit ecosystems of talented individuals that can supercharge careers. ⚡ Founders As Career Catalysts Purposefully selecting great founders to work for can accelerate your career. The best founders think deeply and broadly, challenging their teams to back up their instincts with data and rigorous thinking. This teaches you to dive deep into details, while also seeing the bigger picture. Founders are classically demanding, direct and have high expectations, which forces you to bring your A-game every day.

We're hiring an office manager / EA at Sling Money in London. This is a really important hire for me because this person will not only be responsible for helping run our office and our team, but also for helping me out with my increasingly heavy workload and calendar and all of that fun stuff. This is a great role in a really innovative, fast-growing, very fast-paced start-up environment. Please apply or let me know if you or someone you know might be a good fit! https://lnkd.in/e3gFN6wT

I never thought I'd be asked to speak at the UK House of Lords, especially on such an important topic as the intersection of #AI and #copyright. We've been incredibly fortunate over the last few months of our journey building Human Native AI to speak with many folks on both sides of this debate. Creative rights holders feel angry that their work is being stolen, and AI developers feel frustrated because they need high quality data at scale to build better products. The UK is at a pivotal moment. We urgently need clarity on copyright exceptions, opt-out mechanisms, and stronger support for the licensing ecosystem. If we have a message it's this: we need to get a move on. Further delay doesn't benefit anyone. At Human Native AI, our work with people across the creative and tech communities has made one thing clear: long-term success depends on collaboration and common ground. Check out the video below for a clip of my evidence. It was my first time speaking at such an event, and my first ever professional day wearing a suit, so please forgive any stumbles!👇

A lot has been going on here at Goodstack HQ — exciting times. Firstly, we have formally rebranded from Percent to Goodstack. We believe Goodstack better represents the brand we have become, empowering companies to easily weave good into what they do by powering their social impact programmes — including product donations, employee giving and corporate grants. In so doing, we’re enabling thousands of nonprofits to access the world’s best technology and find new funding streams. Secondly, we’re thrilled to announce our $28 million Series A funding led by General Catalyst, alongside Morpheus Ventures, Marbruck Investments and Repeat Ventures. This is off the back of our incredible growth, having gone from facilitating $3 million in charitable donations in 2021, to $3 billion by the end of this year. We have incredibly exciting ambitions to continue this rapid growth trajectory in 2025 and are hiring across our Commercial, Operations, Product, Engineering, Marketing and Finance teams; if you’re excited about our mission of making it easy to do good, come join us! A huge thank you to all of our current and future business and nonprofit partners. Together, we are building a better future for us all. Let’s do this! 🍋 More info below, including our round and selected press coverage: https://lnkd.in/gEn4urF6 https://lnkd.in/gZn5a5Cx https://lnkd.in/eaAsPBdS Excited about our mission of making it easy to do good? Join us! Open roles here: https://lnkd.in/ebabaVGx

Today, we’re launching Sling Money in the US. Stepping into the world’s largest economy and one of the most advanced financial systems in the world. With a GDP of $25.4 trillion, the U.S. is a core piece in the puzzle of simplifying global finance and connecting billions around the world. What Sling Money is bringing to the table: Speed - Usually, ACH payments in the US can take 1–4 business days to settle. With Sling Money, transfers are instant between 140+ countries. Our users can load funds into Sling Money with a debit card and send money worldwide in seconds. Simplicity - Forget routing numbers, IBANS & account numbers. All you have to do is search for the name of the person you want to send to, type in the amount and hit send. It's that simple. Fee Free - It’s estimated that American consumers are charged up to $16.3B in fees annually when sending money abroad. On Sling there are no hidden fees, in fact, at the moment all transfers on Sling are fee-free. Sling Money is bringing in real-time payments that leverage both advanced U.S. networks and Solana’s fast, affordable blockchain. The result: payments as seamless as sending a text, no matter the currency, no matter the location. There’s more to come, but right now, we’re thrilled to bring Sling Money’s mission of effortless, global finance to the U.S.

Dubai highlights 🌆: The group panel at #BinanceBlockchainWeek event, featuring Minh Nguyen, CPO at Onfido, sharing key insights with industry leaders. And the team visited the Entrust Dubai office 🤝 Tuan-Minh NGUYEN, Andrea Bondi, Christian Curdy. #Crypto #Team #Innovation #IDV

We’re really excited to see the bloom community flourish since our re-launch just three months ago, with members starting to meet in-person in London, NYC, and San Fran 🌍 👥 💜 Last week, 25 of us gathered in Shoreditch for very informal afterwork drinks, a fantastic reminder of the power of in-person connections 💜 So, what is bloom? We're a two-part business: a recruitment agency and a community platform. At our core, we specialise in recruitment across Product, Engineering, and Product Design, helping tech companies hire world-class talent at every growth stage – from pre-seed to post-IPO. We partner with VCs like General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Kindred Capital VC, and firstminute capital, with some of our partners including Monzo Bank, Deliveroo, Google, Causaly, Sling Money, Bumble Inc., Depop, Synthesia, Paddle, Granola, Human Native AI, Lightnote (South Park Commons) and Patients.app. Both with 10+ years of recruitment experience, Alex and I have built bloom as a people-first business driven by high-calibre matchmaking. With that in mind, four years ago we expanded bloom by creating a community for product people which we recently relaunched on the Circle platform. Our community is a space for peer support, mentorship, and industry connections, whether in-person or online .... bloom is here to support your journey 🪜 What Can You Expect in The Community?: 🌍 In-person Monthly Meetups : We host regular in-person city meetups, always covering the first drink for members to kick-start connections! No need to wait for meetups to stay connected! 💬 Active Online Community : With 82 global members (and growing), bloom offers peer support, mentorship pairings, "ask the community" sections and many more. 👥 Personalised Member Profiles & Member Tags : Members fill out detailed profiles for tailored matches by interest, location, and expertise. We even use the MBTI test to enhance member connections. 🔓 Easy Access : Members can log in via our website or our mobile app for on-the-go access. Community Highlights: 🌎 Global Reach : 82 members across London (50), the U.S. (17 across NYC, San Francisco, and Philadelphia), and Europe (5). 🎉 Connections & Opportunities : 81% of members have met in person, and off the back of joining the community, four of our members have secured roles at Cleo, Monzo Bank, Hupe & Stride. 🫂 Member-Driven Experience : Focused on quality, we create a human experience that grows with our members. Membership Details: 💷 At £19.99 + VAT/month, many members expense the membership, with most employed members using L&D benefits. There’s no contract, so you can cancel anytime. 🌍 Join Us! We’re actively welcoming new members worldwide, with a strong focus for now on members living and working in London, NYC, and San Francisco. Are you a product manager, product leader, founder, or GM ready to join a community that puts people first? Apply here >> https://lnkd.in/e8V93CZN #bloom

Lightscreen AI (YC F24) is building a voice agent for uncheatable tech screens, helping hiring teams focus on genuinely skilled candidates. Up to 30% of candidates cheat on coding tests. With the increased prevalence of AI tools and remote interviewing, cheating is only becoming more common. Yet traditional screening tools remain outdated—many are still unproctored and rely on questions easily answered by AI. Lightscreen’s AI interviewer works with candidates step-by-step through dynamic coding problems like a pair programmer, observing their problem-solving process. It analyzes a variety of signals in real time to make sure their work is genuine. Lightscreen's problems are also designed to measure more than the ability to solve coding puzzles, offering insights into problem-solving and engineering skills. Founders Prachie Banthia and Gavin Saldanha experienced the problem firsthand, both as hiring managers and interviewees. They met while working at Google and have since worked on NLP, ML, and speech AI products. Their shared experience and interest led them to create Lightscreen AI, with the mission to enable fairer and faster hiring of top technical talent with AI. Congrats to the team on the launch! 🚀 https://lnkd.in/gEZCrCnu

I’ve been wanting to dive into more product networking for a while, and last week, I finally made it happen. As part of my membership with bloom, I attended their in-person networking event, and it was fantastic. It was great to meet new product people and chat about product but also lots of other things like dogs and karaoke🎤. Huge thanks to bloom founders Sam Helire-Howell and Alex Castell-Howard for building such a welcoming community and hosting an great, personal event.