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Excited to host the first next play gathering in Lisbon in September! I love next play because it facilitates serendipity. It's what I wish existed when I took the leap from Google to The Newsroom. We'll bring together a small group of top-notch founders and operators who are openly or secretly exploring what comes next. You may be considering starting a company, joining your next thing, both, or unsure. Sounds like you? Application link is in the comments!

These 26 early-stage, Y Combinator backed startups are now hiring INTERNS: 1) Arketa - software for fitness / wellness businesses (remote US - sales intern) 2) BoldVoice - speech and accent coaching app (remote US / NYC - growth marketing intern) 3) Culdesac - cities for people (Tempe - social media & events intern) 4) Swipe (YC S21) - billing and payments for Indian SMBs (Hyderabad - iOS intern) 5) Thera (YC S22) - payroll for global teams (remote US - growth marketing intern) 6) Hypotenuse AI - AI copywriting & visual content (Singapore - business development and writing intern) 7) Infer (YC S21) - AI for lead qualification for insurance & financial services (remote India - deep learning intern) 8) Juicebox (YC S22) - AI-powered talent sourcing for recruiters (Bay Area - software engineering intern) 9) K-Scale Labs - open-source humanoid robots (Bay Area - technical intern) 10) Leafpress - AI utility data management (remote US / Bay Area - SWE intern) 11) Odys Aviation - vertical takeoff & landing aircraft for airlines (Los Angeles - motion planning & controls intern) 12) Peakflo (YC W22) - bill payment for SE Asia (remote India - SDR intern) 13) Pivot Robotics (YC W24) - AI for robot arms in factories (Bay Area - mechanical engineer intern) 14) DreamWorld - next-gen Minecraft (Bay Area - game design / QA testing intern) 15) Quickchat AI - AI assistants (Warsaw - machine learning engineer intern) 16) Rally Technologies - Zoom for social events (remote - marketing intern) 17) Studdy - AI math tutor for students (remote US - campus marketing intern) 18) Swif - compliance-first device security (remote US / Bay Area - sales intern) 19) Taiki (YC W24) - universal API for tax data (remote US / Bay Area - mobile engineering intern) 20) Topline Pro - Gen AI powered Shopify for home service professionals (NYC - social media intern) 21) Univerbal - language learning with a conversational AI Tutor (Zurich - social media intern) 22) Vectorview - custom evaluation tasks for AI (Bay Area / Stockholm - engineering intern) 23) Wefunder - pre-IPO investments in tech companies (Nashville - business development intern) 24) Wordware (YC S24) - IDE for building AI agents (Bay Area - general intern) 25) Zuddl - platform for events and webinars (remote India - lead development intern) 26) Retell AI - conversational AI builder (Bay Area - design intern) I'll include links to all of their job pages in the comments. 📍 for more lists like these every week, follow me here: @Ben Lang ➕ join next play if you're exploring what comes next in your journey

There’s no one-size-fits-all in your career journey. Sometimes, the most unexpected path lead to where you're meant to be. Career trajectory advice from Camille Ricketts

I just sent out an email with a new, curated list of under-the-radar opportunities (breakout startups hiring, co-founder searches, early teams to join.) Share your email in the comments and I’ll forward it to you.

Here's a new list of 35 early-stage, fast growing Y Combinator backed startups, hiring for REMOTE roles, all have < 50 employees. 1) Text Blaze - slash commands anywhere (remote global) 2) Rootly - on-call and incident management (remote US / Canada) 3) Litnerd - teaching reading through live-stream actors (remote global / US) 4) Activeloop - database for AI (remote US) 5) Centaur Labs - data annotation for AI in the medical and life sciences (remote US) 6) Enode - integrations for energy devices (remote US / EU) 7) Fella Health - weight loss for men (remote global) 8) GoLinks - URL shortener for work (remote US) 9) Pair Team - quality care for the underserved (remote US) 10) Topkey - financial management for vacation property management (remote US) 11) Strac - data loss prevention software (remote US) 12) StackAI - enterprise generative AI platform (remote US) 13) OneText - frictionless payments via SMS (remote US) 14) Assembly HOA Management - tech-enabled HOA (remote US) 15) CrowdVolt (YC W24) - platform to exchange live events tickets (remote US) 16) InspectMind AI (YC W24) AI - construction inspections reports using AI (remote US) 17) Haplotype Labs - personalized prevention using genetics and AI (remote US) 18) Zep AI (YC W24) - long-term memory for AI assistants (remote US / Canada) 19) Givefront - banking for nonprofits (remote US) 20) Pythagora (YC W24) - builds entire apps from scratch by talking (remote global) 21) Roe AI - data warehouse to query unstructured data (remote US) 22) Further AI - AI workforce for insurance industry (remote US) 23) Corgea (YC S23) - fix vulnerable code using AI (remote US) 24) Affinity - compliance training platform for regulated industries (remote) 25) Leafpress - AI utility data management (remote US) 26) Turntable (YC W23) - AI-native operating system for analytics teams (remote) 27) Fiber - pull data from popular APIs to build integrations (remote) 28) Anarchy Labs - Gitlab for LLM Teams (remote) 29) Delfino AI - gen AI for administrative automation in healthcare (remote US) 30) JustPaid.io - AI accounts receivable agent (remote) 31) Anja Health - cord blood banking reimagined (remote US) 32) Emerge Career - selling online job training to the government (remote US) 33) Odigos - open-source codeless monitoring pipeline (remote US) 34) Taiki (YC W24) - Universal API for tax data (remote US) 35) Resquared - Marketing automation to sell to local businesses (remote US) I'll include links to all of their job pages in the comments. 📍 for more lists like these every week, follow me here: @Ben Lang ➕ join next play if you're exploring what comes next in your journey

Our first customer was a grandparent who worried they'd die before having the chance to afford a home near their grandkids. He found his home with Roam, and sent us a postcard at Christmas with his grandkids. Join us at Roam - you'll get to viscerally feel the impact you have at work. We're making homeownership 2x more affordable by helping buyers rewind the clock and access low-rate mortgages. There's urgent and massive demand for affordable homeownership, and we're hiring for several roles to advance our mission: 🏃♂️ Sales: You'd be a great fit if you were a former athlete and still have the competitive drive and resilience. We're looking for someone who is determined and loves to talk to customers daily. 🛠️ Eng: We're hiring a full stack engineer to join our lean but mighty team, where you'll get to work with the founding engineers at Opendoor and Square. You'll be a great fit if you value velocity over process and want to ship something daily with high agency. 📣 Marketing: We're hiring a lifecycle marketing manager who is excited to own our CRM infrastructure, which will power us to scale nationwide. You're an excellent fit for this role if you sweat the details and care about delivering an authentic voice to customers. Apply online or ping me / Sarah Ruth Boyer Hendrix for details.

Excited to announce that I have been working with Ben Lang & Jordan Gonen to bring next play gatherings to Sydney after the successful turnouts in NYC, SF, Boston and so many more. We're planning the first private event in Sydney around Sept-end / Oct-start. next play brings together top-notch founders, builders & operators exploring what comes next, whether that’s starting something new, joining a startup, tinkering with a few ideas, or still unsure. Reach out if that sounds like you. Examples of people in next play community - second time founder who sold their previous company and exploring starting a new company - engineering leader from Series C company looking to join a new company or potentially start a company - VP growth at FAANG company thinking about joining an early stage startup + many others from places like Stripe, OpenAI, Notion, Retool, Y Combinator, Rippling, Silver Lake, Sequoia, SpaceX, Figma, Replit, Nasa, Coinbase, Airbnb, Instacart, and more. You can read more about community here and see if it appeals to you- https://nextplay.so/sydney Apply on link in the comments.

A month ago, I had the chance to talk to one of my favorite people on the planet, the great Ben Lang of global Notion & next play fame, about our early days together working at Notion, the role community played, what it was like to define a brand that would be as truly lovable as the product..... and then what it's like to leave a job you really adore to move onto the next thing. So grateful for the opportunity to reflect on so many favorite moments, and hopefully offer some interesting advice (or at least hard won lessons) along the way. Hope you enjoy! And thank you, Ben! 🎙️⚡️❤️

Our latest podcast episode with Camille Ricketts is now live ✨ We talk about: • The serendipitous moments at First Round Capital which led to joining Notion as the first marketing leader • Interview process for Notion in the early days • The life story tradition at Notion • What leaving Notion was like after playing such a key role in the company • Setting your team up for success when leaving • Taking time off to be present, travel, angel invest • Going back to work, ways to approach exploring new opportunities • Going from journalism scoops to joining Tesla early • How important serendipity can be in your career • Moving to venture capital as an investor at XYZ Venture Capital and more! Links to listen in the comments