Fellowship —
With Zack Baker and Danielle Frider, I launched the Contrary Fellowship, a community of the world's top early-career engineers, designers, and product minds. We're ~300 strong as of Summer 2021.
Some notable achievements:
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Our Fellows have been instrumental in the growth of breakout startups like Retool and Ramp
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We've helped Fellows land roles at companies like Italic
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Several Fellows have founded companies and joined top accelerators like YC
I launched v1 of the program and began by shepherding the community with Zack, later moving into an advisory + operations role supporting our Danielle.
Investing —
I've supported the investment team on several key deals by making introductions to talent sourced from our network. I've also occasionally supported investment operations, notably coordinating SPVs.
Startup Search —
Zack and I took over the Startup Search newsletter. We launched Startup Search Verified to help our top subscribers get introduced directly to great startups. Later, we launched startupsearch.com and announced Lists, our compilations of top startups in categories like fintech and climate.
Startup Fair —
With Jess Retrum, I launched startupfair.com, a closed career fair that pairs 100 of the world's top early-career builders with top startups like Anduril, Ramp, Vise, and Stytch.
Tools —
I've built internal tools to keep the whole ship running. There's a lot more of this than you might expect (certainly than I expected).
Web presence —
I built + maintain contrarycap.com and design Contrary's brand assets for social media and email marketing.