You know that saying, go big or go home? The new saying is, go audacious or home! There’s no other way!

What your engineering recruiting pipeline looks like 2 weeks after Audacious Ventures sends the wire out. (BTW, this is real from a screen shot grab this morning)

Yes the term “force of nature” is overused these days, but still not easy to earn that reference from someone who’s successful themselves + has made a few improbable outcomes happen in their own journeys. You get a strong reference from a person like that, gotta take it seriously

Technical recruiters are in very (very) high demand right now.

In the last week, WorkOS announced OpenAI, Sierra, Anthropic, Cursor and Perplexity as customers 🤯. The enterprise readiness platform for the AI agents era --> WorkOS! 💥💥💥

Excerpt from monthly update: ---- Founding Engineer: emailed 5,250 that met Founding Engineer Target Criteria. Interviewed 128 personally. Hired 2. ---- This is what it takes.

Super excited for this GA launch of Tezi! True to their name, everything at Tezi (Hindi for speed) happens super fast - recruiting an amazing team, shipping a beautiful, delightful beta, signing up design partners, acting on product feedback! If you’re hiring, check out Tezi!

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Big launch: Tezi's agentic AI recruiter, Max, is now available to all companies. Bye bye beta, hello GA. Max filled all my open headcount in < 30 days per role. Excited to share it with even more companies!

Here's the full convo with Nakul Mandan // Audacious Ventures on recruiting exceptional talent for your startup. What topic is more important than this? I'm not sure there is one. We cover the 5 top mistakes founders make when recruiting: 1. Not internalizing good is the enemy of great. 2. Lack of

Going on vacation with VCs

For too long the world of hardware testing has been stuck in the past. Our mission at Nominal since the beginning has been to change this - to give hardware engineers and organizations a new suite of tools to help them build the physical world that moves, powers, and protects

Trying to find Andytown Coffee Roasters at Salesforce Park again, which means I’ll spend the next 12 minutes confidently walking in the wrong direction and pretending like I know where I’m going. I can’t be the only one, right?

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Want to 10x your recruiter? Don’t just say “send great people.” Start with the companies you admire. Tell us what makes them great. Then watch what happens.

We just pulled the #1 rep out of a $2B company and placed them into a seed stage co (more to soon!). Here’s what it actually took: - Rep referred to us from our network but wasn't looking - Gave us a 15-min call and we knew we needed to earn more time (full send on the story +

Building eng teams @ seed is fun work too! We sent them engineers. They sent us champagne. I think we all won! 🥂

We're hiring an AI Engineer at Audacious Ventures! Cannot wait to work with this person to build one of the best internal candidate<>company AI matching systems and more!!