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The Ultimate Playbook for Landing a Job at the Next Uber
Proven Strategies to Find and Secure a Role at a High-Potential Startup
Trey Layton
May 09, 2024
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Your Playbook for Getting a Job at the Next Uber
If you were one of the first employees at Uber, you can probably afford to order Black or Eats without having to cringe at the price.
Getting rejected from turning away from the corporate, finance, or big tech worlds to take a bet on some upstart scrappy team is risky, and frankly, it’s not for everyone. You get paid less, and you work just as much, if not more.
Your parents will also most certainly not approve, not-so-subtly answering “good! they’re still doing that little business experiment while they figure things out” whenever they’re asked by friends or relatives how you’re doing.
However, if you are dead set on being the gal or guy who pitches your company to everyone at every social function you ever attend, here's my tried and true playbook for not only finding promising startups, but also landing a job once you find one, ensuring a successful startup job search.
*Obviously, no guide can be foolproof. However, from literally years of experimentation and embarrassing mistakes, I can spare you most of the loss of confidence that the job search can inspire.
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Apple released two new iPads, including its thinnest yet
They’re powered by Apple’s fancy new M4 chips, which are apparently great for running AI applications in the off chance that Apple ever actually does something in the space
Tim Cook called it the biggest iPad release yet, and somehow despite the lack of literally anything special over the last model, he’s not wrong lol
Side note, wasn’t aware that the iPad Air’s primary demographic is middle age women? My favorite comment from Reddit called it the “Toyota Camry of tech” lmao
In case you want to compare LLMs yourself, this research site lets you “battle” two LLMs answering a single prompt.
An interesting point on the OpenAI team’s recent media crusade
Related, but the event rumored to be for the company’s new search engine feature originally scheduled for today has been moved to Monday
OpenAI was amazing in 2022-2023 because they shipped a product that spoke for itself. Jaws dropped by those using it, and seeing it for themselves.
To see the company hype up future (unreleased) products feels like a major shift. If it's that good, why not ship it, like before?
— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)
6:48 PM • May 7, 2024
At least Sora appears to be doing well? Here’s an entirely Sora-generated music video… woah
Moving on is the hardest part. This is about losing a loved one and dreaming of them after they're gone. But memories are subjective, distorted mirrors of reality. That's what's in the latent space.
The Hardest Part by @realwashedoutvimeo.com/941713443
Made with Sora
— Paul Trillo (@paultrillo)
4:45 PM • May 6, 2024
This breakdown on the latest report on TikTok is a mind-killer
National cybersecurity is one of the most important topics of our time.
Quick recap of the most successful fifth column attack ever, TikTok:
- Chinese government develops a world class algorithm to hack people's dopamine centers
- Leverages addiction machine to subvert… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Andrew Côté (@Andercot)
3:46 AM • May 8, 2024
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Trey
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