Mentors at Key Studio

Thank you to our mentors Ankit Jain, Anthony DiMarco, Aydin Senkut, Bonita Stewart, Bradley Horowitz, Brent Dance, Brian McClendon, Caesar Sengupta, Catherine Lacavera, Chris Bayley, Christine Tsai, Claire Hughes Johnson, Gretchen Howard, Guru Bhat, Jackson Georges, Kazuki Notsu, Lei Xu, Mahesh Ram, Manik Gupta, Marissa Mayer, Mark Cummins, Mary Grove, Noah Ready-Campbell, Qasar Younis, Remi Cossart, Satya Patel, Shabih Rizvi, Shiva Rajaraman, Sunita Verma, Todd Jackson, Veronique Lafargue, Vibhu Mittal, Yigit Ihlamur and many more!

What is Xoogler.co?

We’re 36,000+ ex- and current Googlers. founders, investors, operators, and the teams hiring them. Here’s what you’ll find on our community platform:

• Need a co-founder? They’re here. #find-a-cofounder

• Raising a round? So are your future investors. #investing-early-stage

• Investing? Hop into #investing-early-stage.

• Sub-communities? Climate, NYC, Mentoring... you get it.

You can now share job openings with the community, head to https://xoogler.key.ai/opportunities to post job openings.

Join one of our onboarding sessions Aug 10, Aug 12, Aug 14, Aug 19 or Aug 21 to learn how to best leverage the community platform. They can also be found in our calendar.

Reach out to learn more about community leadership opportunities.

📅 Upcoming Events Include

🗽Aug 5 NY Coworking Day with Xooglers including Stef Lau & Chris Fong. RSVP

🗽 🎷 Aug 6 6pm-8pm NY Jazz Happy Hour with Art Zeidman. RSVP

🇲🇲 Aug 10 9:30am EDT Myanmar Trip Q&A. Come visit Myanmar and contribute to the ecosystem by sharing your skills. The proposed dates are December 22-29, 2026. Available dates are also possible in September or October. RSVP

💻 Aug 11, 6pm PDT Mentors in Silicon Valley (Oct 6-7) Q&A with Google for Startups Southeast Asia. RSVP

🗽 Aug 13 New York VCs & Angel Investors Meetup. RSVP.

💻 Aug 10, Aug 12, Aug 14, Aug 19, Aug 21 Xoogler Platform Onboarding Sessions

💻 Aug 18 5pm PDT Rushabh Gandhi, Co-Founder Strawberry.me is on a mission to make quality coaching accessible to everyone. Join us as he shares his founder story and Strawberry’s impact, why coaching, how it works, and how to choose. He will also cover workforce anxiety and what employees can do. RSVP.

Strawberry.me pairs you with a vetted professional coach for the moments that matter: a career transition, a leadership challenge, a big life decision, or simply feeling stuck. Coaching isn’t about giving you answers; it’s about seeing your blind spots, getting clear on what you actually want, and following through. Get matched in under 24 hours, meet weekly over video, and message your coach between sessions.

Xooglers get their first week of coaching free. Get started at www.strawberry.me/xoogler

👉 Sign up for the Xoogler calendar so you don’t miss out on 360+ annual events to help you connect with the community.

Many events are organized between newsletters so be sure to sign up for notifications!

• All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events.

• Create an event for Xooglers using the create event option and submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar for members to sign up.

🙏 Thank you to our Xoogler Volunteer Leaders Stefanie Lau & Sal Mohammed

Email partner@xoogler.co to volunteer as a leader in the Xoogler community

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Xoogler Reconnect hosted by Stephanie Davis in Dublin 🇮🇪

Thanks for reading the Xoogler Newsletter. Be sure to follow the Xoogler community.

Please join a Q&A session to learn more. Apply here and sign up here to get updates.

• Tuesday June 23, 1:30pm BST | 4pm IST | 6:30pm SGT | 8:30pm AEST

• Tuesday June 23, 7:30pm PDT | 10:30pm EDT | Wednesday June 23, 8am IST | 10:30am SGT | 8:30pm AEST

• Sunday June 28, 8pm PDT | 11pm EDT | Monday June 29, 8:30am IST | 11am SGT | 1pm AEST

• Monday June 29, 10am BST | 2:30pm IST | 5pm SGT | 7pm AEST

Thank you to Jonathan Silber, Co-Founder & Director, Google’s AI Futures Fund for making this opportunity available for Xooglers. Here are his thoughts on why this was established:

“Through this new partnership with Key Studio, we’re thrilled to enable Xooglers as they explore next generation AI applications. As a former Xoogler myself, I know first hand the depth and strength of their community. I can’t wait to see what they build when they combine that with access to the latest Google technologies and expertise through the AI Futures Fund.”

We’re excited to have Marissa Mayer be a mentor and participant in the AI Incubator. Here are her thoughts on why she is joining:

“Google’s legacy of innovation is an inspiration for the whole technical industry. Key Studio provides the ideal modern extension of that legacy, giving Google alumni access to frontier AI models and an executive network with experience operating at scale. I’m proud to be part of it.”

Selected founders receive an unmatched set of resources

• Early access to Google’s AI models

• Up to $100,000 in access to capital

• Up to $350,000 in Google Cloud and AI credits

• Full Key AI platform access for community building, networking, and warm introductions to investors and potential customers

• Access to the 35,000-strong Xoogler network of operators, PMs, and engineers

• Mentorship & sessions with senior Google and AIFF leaders

Applications Now Open

We are now accepting applications from founders in the Xoogler community, with plans to expand to a broader audience in future cohorts. The program is intentionally selective — every admitted startup receives the full weight of Key Studio resources, mentorship, and attention. Learn more at Xoogler.co/studio and apply here.

What is Xoogler.co?

We’re 36,000+ ex- and current Googlers. founders, investors, operators, and the teams hiring them. If you’re looking to build a startup, learn how Xoogler can assist you.

Here’s what you’ll find on our community platform:

• Need a co-founder? They’re here. #find-a-cofounder

• Raising a round? So are your future investors. #investing-early-stage

• Investing? Hop into #investing-early-stage.

• Sub-communities? Climate, NYC, Mentoring... you get it.

You can now share job openings with the community, head to https://xoogler.key.ai/opportunities to post job openings. Email Kushagra if you’re a Bay Area product engineering champion or enterprise account executive interested in an exciting opportunity.

Sill not sure how to use the community platform? Join one of our daily onboarding sessions. They can be found in our calendar.

Reach out to learn more about community leadership opportunities.

📅 Upcoming Events Include

🇮🇳 Thu June 25, Xoogler Demo Day Bengaluru. Learn more about presenting startups. Thank you Nupur Dave, Sachin Jain, Samvidha Sinha and Saurabh Minni for organizing this Demo Day! Thank you Rajan Anandan for serving on the Investor’s Panel!

🇨🇳 Tue June 30, Shanghai meetup with Chris Fong. RSVP

🇬🇧 Tue July 7, London meetup with Chris Fong. RSVP

💻 Investing in YC Startups. RSVP

✈️ Travel with Xooglers to Bhutan, the Great Barrier Reef (to help with conservation efforts), etc. Share your interest here

👉 Sign up for the Xoogler calendar so you don’t miss out on 360+ annual events to help you connect with the community.

Many events are organized between newsletters so be sure to sign up for notifications!

• All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events.

• Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co!

• Create an event for Xooglers using the create event option and submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar for members to sign up.

👥 Membership Directory

Recent additions include Alan Eustace, Christine Tsai, Hunter Walk and Jeff Huber. Be sure to sign up and read how they are looking to connect with Xooglers!

🎥 Recordings

Subscribe to the Xoogler YouTube Channel to be informed of newly posted videos

Thanks for reading the Xoogler Newsletter!

We’re 36,000+ ex- and current Googlers. founders, investors, operators, and the teams hiring them. If you’re looking to build a startup, learn how Xoogler can assist you.

Here’s what you’ll find on our community platform:

• Need a co-founder? They’re here. #find-a-cofounder

• Raising a round? So are your future investors. #investing-early-stage

• Investing? Hop into #investing-early-stage.

• Sub-communities? Climate, NYC, Mentoring... you get it.

You can now share job openings with the community, head to https://xoogler.key.ai/opportunities to post job openings. Email Kushagra if you’re a Bay Area product engineering champion interested in an exciting opportunity.

Not sure where to start? Just DM me or Nate Dumas and we’ll point you in the right channel.

We recently hosted an ex-Meta meetup given their news. Have your ex-Meta mates join the ex-Meta community here. Ex-Atlassian can join here. Reach out to learn more about community leadership opportunities.

🛠️ Google Cloud Credits & Other Benefits

Are you a startup founder looking for Google Cloud Credits? Watch this video and when you’re ready to apply, please fill out the public form and this form. We have other credits for Xooglers including Notion, Stripe, Hubspot, AirWallex and Aspire. Check out details in the #offers-benefits-discounts channel and email partner@xoogler.co if you can connect the community with other credit programs.

🗽 📅 NY Tech Week

⁠Mon Jun 1, 10:30am - Coffee with Xooglers at Chelsea Market. RSVP.

⁠Mon June 1, 6pm - AI, Time & The Future of Computers panel with Ang Li (CEO/Co-Founder of Simular, ex-Google DeepMind), Arian Agrawal (Partner at South Park Commons), Matt Ridenour (Head of Startups at Google DeepMind) and Christopher Fong. RSVP.

Wed June 3, 7pm - Founders/Investors NBA Finals Watch Party (Limited Seats). Co-hosted by Anthony DiMarco (Google 2002-09), Mike Canzoniero and Christopher Fong. RSVP.

Thu June 4, 9am - Agentic Development Lab by Google Cloud Platform Dev Rel and Global Accelerator & Incubator Partnerships Leader Subhadeep Chatterjee, hosted at Alumni Ventures. Learn how using AI Agents can help Cloud Engineers do their jobs faster and more effectively by creating an Agent Skill so the problem can be resolved even faster and more autonomously next time. RSVP.

⁠Mon June 8, 5pm - Xoogler Drinks. RSVP

📅 Other Events Include

☕ Tue June 2, Seattle. RSVP

🇬🇧 Thu June 4, London. RSVP

🇸🇬 Thu June 18, Singapore. RSVP

🇮🇳 Thu June 25, Xoogler Demo Day Bengaluru. RSVP

💻 Investing in YC Startups. RSVP

✈️ Travel with Xooglers to Bhutan, the Great Barrier Reef (to help with conservation efforts), etc. Share your interest here

👉 Sign up for the Xoogler calendar so you don’t miss out on 360+ annual events to help you connect with the community.

Many events are organized between newsletters so be sure to sign up for notifications!

• All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events.

• Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co!

• Create an event for Xooglers using the create event option and submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar for members to sign up.

🚀 Xoogler Demo Day Bengaluru June 25, 2026

Xoogler founders are presenting infront of Rajan Anandan, Managing Director Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia India) Former VP, Google India & SE Asia and other top investors!

Founders - if you haven’t applied yet, be sure to apply by Friday June 5.

Investors - RSVP to join us at the Google Ananta office. If you can’t make it, you can sign up here to receive the startup details after Demo Day.

Volunteers - if you’re in Bengaluru, please consider volunteering to make the event a success by reaching out to Nupur Dave, Sachin Jain, Samvidha Sinha, Saurabh Minni or via email.

👥 Membership Directory

Recent additions include Alan Eustace, Christine Tsai, Hunter Walk and Jeff Huber. Be sure to sign up and read how they are looking to connect with Xooglers!

🎥 Recordings

Subscribe to the Xoogler YouTube Channel to be informed of newly posted videos

Xoogler Onboarding

Xooglers in Climate

Building AI Agents

Thanks for reading the Xoogler Newsletter!

We’re 36,000+ ex- and current Googlers. Founders, investors, operators, and the teams hiring them. Here’s what you’ll find on our community platform:

• Need a co-founder? They’re here. #find-a-cofounder

• Raising a round? So are your future investors. #investing-early-stage

• ⁠Hiring? Your best hire isn’t on LinkedIn. They’re here. #hiring-misc

• Investing? Hop into #investing-early-stage.

• Sub-communities? Climate, NYC, Mentoring... you get it.

Not sure where to start? Just DM me or Nate Dumas and we’ll point you to the right channel.

🛠️ If you’re a builder and looking for a community where you can get feedback and support as you build the next-gen AI products using Gemini models, be sure to sign up here.

🇮🇳 If you’re a founder or investor in India, be sure to email Chris to learn more about Xoogler Demo Day.

📅 Events This Week

🌁 Mon April 6 | SF | HumanX Conference. RSVP

💻 Wed April 8 | 4pm PST | Meet your potential Xoogler co-founder. RSVP

🌁 Wed April 8 | 5:30pm PST | Are you interested in being a founding engineer? Join this fireside chat with Kiloforge. They are a new startup funded by a16z & Uncork Capital. RSVP

🌁 Thu April 9 | 12:30pm | Lunch Discussion for Hiring Managers. RSVP

💻 Fri April 10 | 11am PST | Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback Meetup. RSVP

💻 Fri April 10 | 4pm PST | Investors Meeting YC Companies. RSVP

Upcoming Events Include

🌁 Week of April | Bay Area Happy Hour. RSVP

🗽 April 15 | 4pm EST | Rooftop Happy Hour. RSVP

🇦🇪 April 16 | Doing Business in the UAE: The Importance of Finding the Right Partner. RSVP

🌴 April 18 | Miami Yacht Party. RSVP

🏕️ April 19 | Camping around SF Bay Area. RSVP

💻 April 20 | Y Combinator Prep with Xooglers & YC Alumni. RSVP

🃏 April 20-24 | Las Vegas Xoogler Meetup at Google Cloud Next. RSVP

🌁 April 30 - May 1 | Qualcomm x Google Developer Hackathon. RSVP

🇸🇬 May 9 | Singapore Botanic Gardens Meetup. RSVP

🇦🇺 May 12 | Sydney UHNWI Discussion. RSVP

🇦🇺 May 14 | Sydney Drinks. RSVP

🌁 May 17 | Women’s Brunch. RSVP

🌁 May 19 | Google I/O Meetup. RSVP

🗽 June 8 | NYC Drinks. RSVP

🏄 LA Meetup. RSVP

💻 Investing in YC Startups. RSVP

💻 Fireside chat with YouTube’s Co-Founder Steve Chen. RSVP

✈️ Travel with Xooglers to Bhutan, the Great Barrier Reef (to help with conservation efforts), etc. Share your interest here

👉 Sign up for the Xoogler calendar so you don’t miss out on 360+ annual events to help you connect with the community.

Many events are organized between newsletters so be sure to sign up for notifications!

• All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events.

• Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co!

• Create an event for Xooglers using the create event option and submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar for members to sign up.

Membership Directory

Recent additions include Alan Eustace, Christine Tsai, Hunter Walk and Jeff Huber. Be sure to sign up and read how they are looking to connect with Xooglers!

🎥 Building Intelligent apps with Google Cloud

The Google Cloud team gave a presentation on building intelligent apps. Watch this recording to learn how Google’s Data Cloud products help data teams and CTOs leverage AI. Learn and explore products such as Spanner which provides multi-model capabilities to build intelligent, AI-enabled applications on top of your operational data. You can email Chris to get in touch with the team. Speakers:

• Jagan Athreya, Group Product Manager at Google Cloud

• Neha Bhatnagar, Data Management Customer Engineer at Google Cloud

• Karthi Thyagarajan, Senior Staff Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Native Databases

We’re 36,000+ ex- and current Googlers. Founders, investors, operators, and the teams hiring them.

Nobody joins because they miss the old days. You join because the people who built the world’s most influential tech company are now building everything else. And this is where that happens.

• Need a co-founder? They’re here. #find-a-cofounder

• Raising a round? So are your future investors. #investing-early-stage

• ⁠Hiring? Your best hire isn’t on LinkedIn. They’re here. #hiring-misc

Here’s who you’ll find inside:

• Entrepreneurs – we do daily startup feedback sessions. Sign up here for March.

• Investors – hop into #investing-early-stage. We just helped a London founder close his round last week 🙌

• Talent – #hiring-misc is where roles get filled (without the resume pile)

• Sub-communities – Climate, NYC, Mentoring... you get it.

Not sure where to start? Just DM me or Nate Dumas and we’ll point you to the right channel.

📅 Events This Week

💻 Wednesday February 25

5pm PST

Fireside chat with Crossmint’s co-founder and former APM Alfonso Gómez-Jordana Mañas

Crossmint’s mission is to help the world migrate towards a new programmatic economy. They offer an all in one platform to integrate digital economy primitives—stablecoins, wallets, payments, tokens - into any business, AI agent or app and they are hiring. From Google to Startup Founder 🚀 Join us to hear Alfonso’s scaling secrets and learn how to spot the next big opportunity in today’s market.

RSVP

💻 Thursday February 26

9am GMT | 2:30pm IST | 5pm SGT | 8pm AEST

Community Onboarding

Unlock the power of the Xoogler community! Explore the directory to find the mentors, partners, and insights you need to reach your goals.

RSVP

💻 Thursday February 26

10am PST | 1pm EST | 6pm GMT

Build intelligent apps with Google Cloud

Learn how Google’s Data Cloud products help data teams and CTOs leverage AI. Learn and explore products such as Spanner which provides multi-model capabilities to build intelligent, AI-enabled applications on top of your operational data. RSVP.

Speakers:

• Jagan Athreya, Group Product Manager at Google Cloud

• Neha Bhatnagar, Data Management Customer Engineer at Google Cloud

• Karthi Thyagarajan, Senior Staff Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Native Databases

RSVP

Upcoming Events Include

💻 Monday March 2 6pm PST | 9pm EST | Tuesday March 3 7:30am IST | 10am SGT | 1pm AEST Community Onboarding RSVP

💻 Startup Pitch Feedback Daily in March. Sign up for the daily feedback sessions

🇸🇬 Monday March 2 3:30pm Singapore Coffee RSVP

🗽 Sunday March 8 12pm NYC International Women’s Day Brunch hosted by Stefanie Lau. RSVP

🇸🇬 Thursday March 12 Singapore Community Builders Funding Q&A RSVP

🌁 Saturday March 14 11am San Francisco Brunch at the Ferry Building. RSVP

🇦🇺 Friday March 20 11am Sydney AI Builders Meetup. RSVP

🌁 Saturday March 21 9am Stanford Dish Hike. RSVP

🌴 Saturday April 18 Miami Yacht Party organized by Anthony Hernandez. RSVP

💻 Fireside chat with YouTube’s Co-Founder Steve Chen. RSVP

💻 Effective Altruism Bootcamp organized by Leanne Poon. RSVP

✈️ Travel with Xooglers to Bhutan, the Great Barrier Reef (to help with conservation efforts), etc. Share your interest here

👉 Sign up for the Xoogler calendar so you don’t miss out on 360+ annual events to help you connect with the community. Many events are organized between newsletters so be sure to sign up for notifications!

• All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events.

• Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co!

• Create an event for Xooglers using the create event option and submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar for members to sign up.

Membership Directory

Recent additions include Alan Eustace, Christine Tsai, Hunter Walk and Jeff Huber. Be sure to sign up and read how they are looking to connect with Xooglers!

Xoogler Expert Network

📈 If you’re looking for an expert to help your business grow, be sure to review the list of Xoogler Experts here and reach out to experts like Jennifer (ex-Canva VP, Meta VP, Google Director) Stephen (Co-Founder of Google Maps), Travis (Strategic Finance/Fundraising), Adrian (Exec Coaching), Alex (GTM), Anna (Growth), Chris (Product), Noah (Game Design), Romain (Security), Sal (Partnerships), Stef (Product/Strategic Consulting), Terry (Talent Acquisition), and Vero (Marketing). Email for us to help you find more experts within the community and apply to join the list of experts here.

🎥 Fireside Chat with Gamma’s CEO/Co-Founder, Grant Lee

On Thursday January 29, the Xoogler community gathered in Palo Alto for an energizing session with Grant Lee. Moderated by Kushagra Shrivastava, CEO/Co-Founder of Key AI, the conversation centered on the founder’s journey and the art of maintaining radical self-belief, even when the venture capital world says “no.”

Big takeaway: Your vision shouldn’t be defined by investor skepticism.

Hiring Alert: Gamma is growing! Check out their open roles. Key AI is also hiring.

The Xoogler community organized over 360 events globally in 2025 and we now have over 36,000 members. 🙏 Thank you to all the community leaders that organized local, online and hybrid events! You can watch all of the recorded events on Xoogler’s YouTube channel.

Get the most out of your community

Be sure to post in the following channels to get the most out of your Xoogler community and check out the membership directory.

• #announcements use this channel to broadcast what you’re working on and if you’re looking to get support

• #am-a-mentor-or-i-need-a-mentor if you’re exploring new careers e.g. you are in edtech but are looking to switch to fintech

• #introduce-and-get-introduced to offer referrals or request referrals for jobs, business development, etc

If you have any questions on the best way to use channels, be sure to direct message Nate Dumas, Mariana Sanchez or Christopher Fong.

📅 Events Next Week

🌁 💻 Monday Jan 26 5:30pm PST Building Backbone: From Prototype to Platform in AI Startups: how to architect an AI Product by Jason Meil from Turing. RSVP

💻 Tuesday Jan 27 10:30am PST Monthly Onboarding RSVP

💻 Thursday Jan 29 9am PST Leveraging the value of Google stock RSVP

🌁 💻 Thursday Jan 29 6pm PST Fireside chat with Gamma CEO/Co-Founder Grant Lee on how he built a company valued at $2.1B with $100M ARR and 70M users. RSVP

Other Upcoming Events

🌁 Wednesday Feb 4 Palo Alto Meetup RSVP

💻 Friday Feb 27 10am PST AI & Data Webinar by Google Data Cloud & Google Cloud Developer Relations RSVP

✈️ Travel with Xooglers to Bhutan, the Great Barrier Reef (to help with conservation efforts), etc. Share your interest here

Opportunities

• Kushagra is hiring for 14+ roles including an Engineering Lead (Palo Alto), Growth Marketing, Applied AI Engineer, Talent Acquisition Specialist, etc check out the openings here

• If you’re hiring, be sure to post in the hiring-misc channel

• If you’re looking at investing in Xooglers launching VC Funds, reach out and I can connect you with them

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Xoogler Expert Network

📈 If you’re looking for an expert to help your business grow, be sure to check out the list of Xoogler Experts here and reach out to experts like Jennifer (ex-Canva VP, Meta VP, Google Director) Stephen (Co-Founder of Google Maps), Travis (Strategic Finance/Fundraising), Adrian (Exec Coaching), Alex (GTM), Anna (Growth), Chris (Product), Noah (Game Design), Romain (Security), Sal (Partnerships), Stef (Product/Strategic Consulting), Terry (Talent Acquisition), and Vero (Marketing). Email experts@xoogler.co for us to help you find more experts within the community and apply to join the list of experts here.

Organize Xoogler Events

👉 Sign up for the Xoogler calendar so you don’t miss out on 360+ annual events to help you connect with the community

• All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events.

• Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co!

• Once you organize a Xoogler event, just submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar for members to sign up.

Startups and Investors

• For Accredited Investors Want to join the Xoogler Angels community? 👉 Email your check size and investment experience. If you’re interested in being an angel investor or an aspiring fund manager, be sure to apply for First Round Capital’s AngelTrack program and Afore Capital’s Angel to Fund Manager program and email Chris

• Are you a startup founder? Be sure to apply for the Accel Atoms & Google’s AI Futures Fund program, the deadline is Monday January 21. You can learn more about the AI Futures Fund program by watching this Q&A with their Co-Founder/Director Jon Silber

We really appreciate everyone’s leadership and time over the past 10 years. Here is the donation link if you are able to financially support Xoogler, a registered non-profit under The Network Institute. Thank you Steven Klebe, Saiba Singh, Alison Rooney, David Janmohamed, Nilesh Karania, Devina Odilia, Julien Condamines, Teresa Gilman, Paul Huynh, Canaan Poh, Salisu Mohammed, Bugra Kara, Parin Mehta, Shoresh Shafei, Jenny Cheng, Shoresh Shafei, Catherine Lacavera, Mailine Swildens, Ram Muthiah, Alex Papageorgiou and Cara Devins for donating! Our non-profit can now accept donations of startup equity.

Connecting you with Xooglers

🔎 Search for Xoogler members via the membership directory, message them directly to connect and chat with Xooglers in over 100+ channels.

🏡 We also now have a Housing-Swap channel, be sure to login to plan your end of year holiday🏙️ 🏖️🎿 ! Check out the calendar to sign up for the next onboarding session to learn more how to get the most out of your community.

Alumni Mentoring

Xooglers who are UC Berkeley alumni, be sure to sign up here to provide and receive mentorship. If you attended another school, email me and let’s set up a mentorship group for your community!

Opportunities

• There is a chance Richard Branson will host a small group of Xooglers/Googlers on his island in the Caribbean in early 2027. If it goes ahead, there will be an application process, share your interest here.

• Kushagra is hiring for 15+ roles including a Delivery Lead (Services), PM, APM, Applied AI Engineer, Engineering Manager, Talent Acquisition Specialist, etc check out the openings here.

• If you’re looking at investing in Xooglers launching VC Funds, reach out and I can connect you with them.

AI

Does your company need assistance in figuring out how to best incorporate the latest developments in AI? Reach out to be connect with Xooglers who can assist!

• 💻 Latest in AI discussion led by Google DeepMind Group Product Lead. RSVP

• 🇸🇬 11/10 Singapore: PM Skills at AI Speed: Learn, Build, Ship. RSVP

• 🌁 11/13 TGI-AI Palo Alto Fireside Chat. RSVP

• 💻 11/20 Building Backbone: From Prototype to Platform in AI Startups: how to architect an AI Product. RSVP

• 🏄 12/2 Meetup at NeurIPS in San Diego organized by Ang Li & Simular. RSVP

Founders & Investors

• Founders looking for co-founders, be sure to join the online co-founder meetup today at 6pm PST or tomorrow.

• Looking for Google Cloud Credits? Be sure to hear from Google Cloud today at 7pm PST. RSVP

• Accredited investors, join the angels community and hear from a founder on 11/6 at 6pm.

• 11/10 5pm PST Online angel investors and VCs meetup. RSVP.

• 🌁 In-Person 11/21 SF & 11/20 Palo Alto meetups for startup founders & investors

• Founders, LPs, Technical Advisors Q&A with Jackson Georges Jr from BAG Ventures on 11/17. RSVP

• 11/20 5pm PST Building Backbone: From Prototype to Platform in AI Startups: how to architect an AI Product. RSVP

• 12/2 Unicorn or Bust Acquisitions fireside chat with Itamar Novick. RSVP

Impacted by Layoffs

Given the recent layoff announcements at Google, Amazon, etc, we have organized a session to provide support for folks that were impacted. Please join us on 11/5 7pm PST to hear from Sarah Karam. The session will be focused around:

1. Should you find a job immediately

2. How to navigate feelings of shame or grief

3. How do they find a support network or coach

Be sure to join the Xoogler layoff channels on the platform to get additional support.

Xoogler Expert Network

📈 If you’re looking for an expert to help your business grow, be sure to check out the list of Xoogler Experts here and reach out to experts like Jennifer (ex-Canva VP, Meta VP, Google Director) Stephen (Co-Founder of Google Maps), Travis (Strategic Finance/Fundraising), Adrian (Exec Coaching), Alex (GTM), Anna (Growth), Chris (Product), Noah (Game Design), Romain (Security), Sal (Partnerships), Stef (Product/Strategic Consulting), Terry (Talent Acquisition), and Vero (Marketing). Email experts@xoogler.co for us to help you find more experts within the community and apply to join the list of experts here.

📅 Upcoming Events

👉 Explore the 300+ events organized each year by checking out the Xoogler Calendar. Sign up for the calendar so you don’t miss out.

All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co!

Once you organize a Xoogler event, just submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar for members to sign up!

🇻🇳 11/6 Vietnam Happy Hour with Robert Huynh. RSVP

💻 11/6 Q&A with Malika Cantor on Verve, supporting ambitious women in tech: founders, operators, and investors. RSVP

💻 11/7 Xoogler Onboarding. RSVP. Review calendar for other onboarding sessions.

💻11/11 LATAM Introduce yourself & Networking. RSVP

🇸🇬11/9 Coffee with Hugging Face’s Tiezhen Wang. RSVP

💻11/11 LATAM Introduce yourself & Networking. RSVP

💻11/12 Women@Xoogler’s Tales of the 0.001% with Jerene Yang RSVP

💻11/14 EMEA Introduce yourself & Networking. RSVP

💻11/19 US Introduce yourself & Networking. RSVP

💻11/21 India Introduce yourself & Networking. RSVP

🇸🇬 11/25 Thrive Mode: Nervous System Management for High Performance with Suzie O’Carroll. RSVP

💻11/25 Asia Introduce yourself & networking. RSVP

💻11/27 Australia & NZ Introduce yourself & networking. RSVP

💻11/28 MENA Introduce yourself & networking. RSVP

🎉🇸🇬 Thu 12/4 Singapore End of Year Gathering. RSVP

🎉 🌁 Thu 12/9 San Francisco End of Year Gathering. RSVP

Resources & Ways to Plug In

• For Accredited Investors | Want to join the Xoogler Angels community? 👉 Email

  your check size and investment experience.

• Xoogler Ventures Fellow | We are looking for our next Fellow. Email your LinkedIn to learn more.

• Volunteer | Xoogler is powered by The Network Institute, a non-profit that thrives on volunteer leadership 👉 Learn more here

📈 If you’re looking for an expert to help your business grow, be sure to check out the list of Xoogler Experts here and reach out to experts like Stephen (Co-Founder of Google Maps), Travis (Strategic Finance/Fundraising, Adrian (Exec Coaching), Alex (GTM), Anna (Growth), Chris (Product), Noah (Game Design), Romain (Security), Sal (Partnerships), Stef (Product/Strategic Consulting), Terry (Talent Acquisition), and Vero (Marketing). Email experts@xoogler.co for us to help you find more experts within the community and apply to join the list of experts here.

If you’re hiring, please post your jobs in the #hiring-misc channel on the platform and we’ll start surfacing them to relevant Xooglers. Email if you need assistance.

📅 Upcoming Events

👉 Explore the 300+ events organized each year by checking out the Xoogler Calendar. Sign up for the calendar so you don’t miss out.

All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co!

Once you organize a Xoogler event, just submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar for members to sign up!

🇸🇬 Mon 10/13 AI Meeting with Ang Li in Singapore. RSVP

💻 Wed 10/15 Building a Unicorn using Agents. RSVP

Join us for a session with Sam Ho, product leader at Turing and former Google, Glassdoor, and Sendoso exec. He’ll share insights on agentic-powered product management and how to use prompts to boost productivity and shape the future of building.

💻 Wed 10/22 Engineering a People-Centered, Planet-Friendly Digital Future for All. RSVP

Christina Yan Zhang is setting standards for 2,000 major cities around the world at the United Nations ITU; she’s shaping future fiscal policy at The Economist Impact AI Economy Board; and advancing AI for scientific discovery at the International Science Council. Her global vantage point helps her see the interconnected ways AI can advance communities, cities, and countries. Join us for a chat on the gaps, trends, and opportunities she’s seeing for civic innovation -- and what it’ll take to get there.

💻 Tue 10/28 AI and Parents. RSVP

How should parents guide their children in the AI age? 🌍 Join global experts in technology, education, psychology, and government for an honest discussion on the skills of the future, responsible AI use, and how to balance innovation with wellbeing.

🔥 🌁 Thu 11/13 TGI-AI Palo Alto Fireside Chat. RSVP

🎉 🌁 Thu 12/11 SF End of Year Gathering. RSVP

🔥 💻 RSVP for our online fireside chat with Google Advisor, and former SVP Jonathan Rosenberg.

📖 💻 RSVP for How I Found Myself in the Midwest: A Memoir of Reinvention book discussion with Steve Grove, founding director of the Google News Lab and CEO and Publisher of The Minnesota Star Tribune.

🙏 Remembering Brett Willms

Brett Willms worked at Google 2010-15 & 2016-18 and was beloved by his colleagues, friends, customers and family. You can share your condolences here. He personally took the time and energy to brainstorm ways Xoogler can be more helpful to more people and even thought of a unique way to bring people together over coffee. His energy and positivity will be sorely missed. Our deepest condolences to his family.

🎥 Watch Maximus Greenwald share his fundraising insights

Thank you to Xoogler’s Financial Supporters

We really appreciate everyone’s leadership and time over the past 10 years. Here is the donation link if you are able to financially support Xoogler. Thank you Jenny Cheng, Shoresh Shafei, Catherine Lacavera, Mailine Swildens, Ram Muthiah, Steven Klebe, Alex Papageorgiou and Cara Devins for donating! Our non-profit can now accept donations of startup equity.

Xooglers have recommended these jobs

This Palo Alto PM role comes recommended by Jonathan Rosenberg, be sure to consider applying for it via email. Inception is a seed-stage AI startup developing a new type of ultra-fast and efficient LLM. Our team brings experience from Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Microsoft AI, and OpenAI and is led by founders from Stanford, UCLA, and Cornell. Reporting to the CEO and working closely with the founding team, this role provides an opportunity to define the product vision for technology that will reshape how humans interact with AI. As our first PM hire, you’ll work directly with our founding team to translate breakthrough research into products that transform how millions of users work, create, and solve problems.

These Head of Strategic Finance & Strategic Finance Manager roles come recommended by Tim Armstrong and Anthony DiMarco. Flowcode is the leading offline-to-online conversion platform, powering personalized consumer experiences through dynamic QR codes, AI-powered landing pages, and real-time analytics. We partner with the world’s most iconic brands across sports, media, retail, and enterprise to transform consumer engagement in the real world. Email to apply.

Resources & Ways to Plug In

• For Accredited Investors | Want to join the Xoogler Angels community? 👉 Email

  your check size and investment experience.

• Xoogler Ventures Fellow | We are looking for our next Fellow. Email your LinkedIn to learn more.

• Volunteer | Xoogler is powered by The Network Institute, a non-profit that thrives on volunteer leadership 👉 Learn more here

🔥 Thu 8/14 5pm PDT Fireside conversation with Jon Silber, co-founder of Google’s AI Futures Fund moderated by Howard Tung. Startups of all stages are welcome to apply for funding. Discover how the fund provides privileged access to Google's cutting-edge AI models, like Gemini, Imagen, and Veo, along with direct support from Google's experts. RSVP.

We’ve officially launched 🚀 the Xoogler Expert Network, an exclusive community dedicated to creating value for Xooglers who offer specialized knowledge and skills to businesses who seek help with their challenges and demands. We’d love for you to be part of it, whether you work as a fractional executive, advisor, consultant or solopreneur.

On the other hand, if you are looking to tap into the minds of these awesome experts, feel free to explore the full Expert Directory which will start growing every week, and be sure to sign up for the information session on August 13, 6pm PDT or August 15 8am GMT (1:30pm IST | 4pm SGT | 6pm AEST).

👩🏻‍💻📓✍🏻💡8/20 Have you considered hiring Xooglers who are fractional, a consultant or solopreneur? Learn from Anna Buber on the best way to collaborate effectively with business leaders and projects that need exactly what you bring to the table. RSVP

🙌💼🎯 8/22 Are you an engineer looking for fractional work? If so, join this Q&A with Turing. RSVP. Are you hiring? Email to arrange your own talk with Xooglers.

🙌💼🎯 Mon 8/25 6pm Liminal, a venture creation group by Temasek ($450B in AUM) is looking to meet serial entrepreneurs or are domain experts in robotics, healthcare, financial services, consumer and AI who are interested in building their next startups. RSVP.

📰 Sign up here to subscribe to the Bay Area 🌁 events weekly newsletter to be informed of the 3 events that are organized each week in the Bay Area! We always welcome Xooglers who can host events at their space or help sponsor drinks/food. You can see all the global events here.

If you’re in Singapore🇸🇬, be sure to join the AI training workshop for VC/PE Analysts & Associates (8/20) or Partners (8/22), pivoting to product workshop by a Group PM who pivoted from Sales to PM (9/10) and a jobs event where Xooglers get to meet companies who are actively hiring (9/12).

Will you be traveling to Singapore for Super Return (9/15)? Sign up and join the side event hosted by Xoogler, the Columbia University Venture Community, Berkeley Club of Singapore and Singapore Global Network. RSVP.

Sign up here to be informed of the other upcoming events alongside Token2049 (email to get a discount code), F1🏎️ , etc.

AI Education and Discussion

Reach out if you’re:

• Interested in attending or teaching AI workshops

• At an AI company and interested in partnering to run workshops

• At a company looking to engage experts for your AI needs

Connect with Xooglers Globally

The events below are examples of the 300+ events that are organized each year. Sign up to the Xoogler Calendar to receive notifications when new events are organized.

• 🌁 Tuesday Aug 12 | 5pm PDT | San Francisco Cofounders Meetup Looking for the right partner to bring your vision to life? Join us whether you’re refining a product or just have the spark of an idea. RSVP.

• 💻 Wednesday Aug 13 | 11am PDT | Demystifying GenAI with Jerene Yang, Head of Runtime at Open AI hosted by Stefanie Lau. RSVP.

• 💻 August Founders meetup with Boldstart Ventures GP Ed Sim. RSVP.

• 💻 September Q&A with Gamma. RSVP.

We have WhatsApp groups in 🇦🇺Australia 🇨🇦Canada 🇮🇪Dublin 🇪🇺Europe 🇭🇰Hong Kong 🇮🇳India 🇮🇩Indonesia 🇯🇵Japan 🌎LATAM 🇵🇹Lisbon 🇬🇧London 🇲🇾Malaysia 🌍MENA🌁SF Bay Area 🇸🇬Singapore 🇻🇳Vietnam ✈️Digital Nomads. Reply with your WhatsApp number to be added and suggest other locations where we should have a WhatsApp group.

Thank you to Xoogler’s Advisors & Financial Supporters

We really appreciate everyone’s leadership and time over the past 10 years. Here is the donation link if you are able to financially support Xoogler. Thank you Jenny Cheng, Shoresh Shafei, Mailine Swildens, Ram Muthiah, Steven Klebe, Alex Papageorgiou and Cara Devins for donating! Our non-profit can now accept donations of startup equity. Thank you Catherine Lacavera, Hal Varian and Qasar Younis for serving as Xoogler’s advisors.

July Xoogler Startup Pitches & Startup Investing

👏 Congrats to Jeff Cherkassky & Jill Randell (Fuse), Bhavna Taneja (Pinakyne), Roza Ghamari (Healink) and Jing Conan Wang (DeepVista) who presented their startups infront of angel investors and VCs in July! Reach out to them to learn more about their startups. Email if you’re looking to present in future sessions, RSVP to attend August’s session or email to join our angels community.

• You can check out 7 other pitches if you’re interested in meeting other early stage startups such as Lumena (watch their pitch)

• A Xoogler is looking to raise a Series A+ round, email to learn more

• If you’re looking to invest in a new venture fund, email to learn more

Unlock the Full Xoogler Experience

Our 35,000+ strong network is about to become even more connected via our community platform. You can sign up here .

• Member Directory – Find collaborators, mentors, or reconnect with former teammates

• Knowledge Base – Access insights from over 100 topic and location-based channels

• Subscribe to the Xoogler calendar to be informed of our upcoming events. All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co! Once you organize an event, just submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar.

• Key was created after Chris and Kushagra struggled to connect 1,500 impacted Googlers after the 2023 layoffs. It’s now here to support the entire community.

💼 Jobs & Hiring

• Need to hire Xooglers? 👉 Email us to connect

• Want to feature a job? 👉 Email for details

• Open to a new role? 👉 Fill this form

Sign up here to subscribe to the Bay Area 🌁 events weekly newsletter to be informed of the 3 Xoogler events that are organized each week in the Bay Area! We always welcome Xooglers who can host events at their space or might want to help sponsor drinks/food. You can see all the global events here.

Will you be traveling to Singapore 🇸🇬 for SuperReturn, Token2049, F1 or the other conferences? Sign up here to be informed of the upcoming side events.

Are you interested in attending or teaching AI workshops? Let us know here. If you’re at an AI company and are interested in partnering to run workshops, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Are you a hiring manager or looking for opportunities?

We continue to hear that Xooglers are looking to hire and many are looking for work. If you’re a hiring manager, please reply and we’ll get you slotted to speak to Xooglers!

• Are you a SWE with experience in LLM research, developer agents, or AI evaluation projects? If so, a Xoogler exec is looking to hire you for 10-20 hours/week starting immediately. Email to learn more.

• Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund’s venture builder is looking for successful repeat founders or experts in Robotics or Healthcare to hear about their venture building program, RSVP to learn more. If you’re a Data Engineer or Data Scientist and interested in their Decarbonisation startup, please reach out.

• Adam Sadilek recently shared that he’s hiring engineers at AIM

• Sunita Verma recently spoke to the community, she’s hiring research engineers at Character AI

• Tao Zhang, co-founder of Manus AI held a fireside and shared he’s hiring in SF and Singapore. You can join the Manus interest group here

• Kushagra Shrivastava is hiring a lead engineer in Palo Alto

🧑‍💻 Given the increase of Xooglers becoming independent consultants, fractional execs or solopreneurs, we’ve been looking at ways for Xooglers to get more support and community. Sign up here to learn more.

📅 Access the Xoogler Membership Directory & Calendar

We’re working to serve the global 🌎 Xoogler community and the following are only some of the 300+ events that are organized each year. Be sure to sign up to the calendar to receive notifications of all our new events and join the platform to access the membership directory!

Mentorship in Singapore 🇸🇬 on Monday July 21, 7pm. RSVP

Receive in-person mentoring from Sherry Jiang, Swee Kiat Lim, Edward Chiang, Bhavna Taneja, Prasanna Loganathar, Siavash Dejgosha, Mohammed Abdoolcarim, Bryan Wong and George Li. Organized with Lorong AI and the Singapore Global Network.

Panel on AI’s Impact on the Workforce in Sydney 🇦🇺 on Thursday July 24, 5:45pm, moderated by Tina Tran at Airtree Ventures. RSVP

Panelists: Claire Hatton (Google 2007-13), Mike Knapp (Google 2005-09, 2018-22) and Ned Moorefield (Google 2020-22).

SF🌁 and online 💻 Fireside Chat with Merve Isler on Thursday July 24, 5pm PDT. RSVP

💻 Insights on Investing in Secondaries with Derek Minno on July 28, 6pm PDT. RSVP

💻 EdTech Online Meetup on Thursday July 31, 12pm PDT hosted by Nathaniel Dumas. RSVP

💻 Monthly Startup Pitch Day on Tuesday July 29, 8pm PDT. Hear from the latest Xoogler startups. RSVP. Email if you’re a startup looking to pitch in future months.

SF🌁 and online 💻 Breaking Visa Barriers for Founders on Thursday July 31, 5pm PDT. RSVP

Palo Alto 🌁 and online 💻 Xoogler x FounderCoHo Founders Panel moderated by Jing Conan Wang featuring Ang Li, CEO & Co-Founder of Simular, and Priyaa Kalyanaraman, CEO & Co-Founder of Lica World on Tuesday August 5, 5pm PDT. RSVP

Connect with Xooglers Globally

We have WhatsApp groups in Australia🇦🇺 Dublin🇮🇪 Hong Kong🇭🇰 India🇮🇳 Indonesia🇮🇩 Japan🇯🇵 Lisbon🇵🇹 London🇬🇧 Malaysia🇲🇾 Singapore🇸🇬 Vietnam🇻🇳 Digital Nomads🌎 and we are launching a Bay Area🌁 WhatsApp group. Reply with your WhatsApp number to be added and suggest other locations where we should have a WhatsApp group to bring the community together!

🎥 Watch the Fireside Chat with Bradley Horowitz

Bradley Horowitz (ex-Google VP) and now the founder/general partner at Wisdom Ventures was named #5 Seed Investor by Business Insider. He’s helped the best startups in Silicon Valley such as Slack, Circle, Scale AI and Applied Intuition. Don’t miss out on watching the recording of the fireside chat held on July 1 to learn from him.

Thank you to Xoogler’s Advisors & Financial Supporters

We really appreciate everyone’s leadership and time over the past 10 years. Here is the donation link if you are able to financially support Xoogler. Thank you Shoresh Shafei, Mailine Swildens, Ram Muthiah, Steven Klebe, Alex Papageorgiou and Cara Devins for donating! Our non-profit can now accept donations of startup equity. Thank you Catherine Lacavera, Hal Varian and Qasar Younis for serving as Xoogler’s advisors.

Unlock the Full Xoogler Experience

Our 35,000+ strong network is about to become even more connected via Key, a community platform that’s unifying all the Xoogler resources:

• Member Directory – Find collaborators, mentors, or reconnect with former teammates

• Knowledge Base – Access insights from over 100 topic and location-based channels

• Events Calendar – Stay informed about meetups, workshops, and networking sessions

• Job Board – Explore opportunities shared directly by fellow Xooglers

• Single Sign-On – One login gives you access to all current and future features

• Benefits - Access exclusive benefits available to Xoogler Founders!

Key was created after Chris and Kushagra struggled to connect 1,500 impacted Googlers after the 2023 layoffs. It’s now here to support the entire community.

You can sign up here to join.

EVENTS & CALENDAR

Subscribe to the Xoogler calendar to be informed of our upcoming events. All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co!

Once you organize a Xoogler event, just submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar for members to sign up!

Resources & Ways to Plug In

• X Studio | 90-day program to ideate, validate, and build your startup. 👉 Sign up here

• For Accredited Investors | Want to join the Xoogler Angels community? 👉 Email your check size and investment experience.

• Lead | Inspired by Xoogler? We’re here to help you kickstart and grow your own alumni network 👉 Learn more here

• Volunteer | Xoogler is powered by The Network Institute, a non-profit that thrives on volunteer leadership 👉 Learn more here

• Stay in the Loop | Subscribe to the Xoogler Calendar for upcoming events

💼 Jobs & Hiring

• Need to hire Xooglers? 👉 Email us to connect

• Want to feature a job? 👉 Email for details

• Open to a new role? 👉 Fill this form

We continue to hear that Xooglers are looking to hire and many are looking for work. If you’re a hiring manager, please reply and we’ll get you slotted to speak to Xooglers!

👂I’m looking forward to chatting with you online to hear how the community can best serve your needs during the second half of 2025. 🙏

Some of our upcoming events

🌁 💻Friday 6/27 SF & online 5:30pm Learn how to get into Y Combinator from Ankit Jain. RSVP

Rachel Fenn will be moderating the fireside chat with Ankit Jain, founder of YC-backed Aviator (S21) and former Google engineer. Dive into the real story behind building in today’s startup landscape. From navigating the YC experience to raising capital, scaling engineering teams, and making the leap from Big Tech to founder life — Ankit will share the lessons, mistakes, and mindset shifts that shaped his journey.

🌁Saturday 6/28 2pm Hike Henry Cowell Redwoods (SF Bay Area). RSVP

Unwind from the busy week and join fellow Xooglers for an easy hike at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. Email if you need or can offer a carpool.

🌁 Monday 6/30 Palo Alto 5:30pm Learn from Bradley Horowitz. RSVP

Bradley Horowitz (ex-Google VP) was named #5 Seed Investor by Business Insider and has helped the best startups in Silicon Valley. He will share his insights from his front row seat at Slack, Circle, Scale AI, Applied Intuition and more! Previously Co-founder and CTO of Virage, Inc., from beginnings through to IPO and acquisition, he's now the founder/general partner at Wisdom Ventures.

🌁 💻Tuesday 7/1 Menlo Park 5pm Learn from Sunita Verma moderated by Medha Bankhwal. RSVP

Sunita Verma is the CTO of Character AI and brings deep experience across AI/ML, LLMs, Distributed Systems, and data technologies. She was recently VP & GM of Google’s Core Labs. Join us as she shares the latest in AI and the opportunities that it will unlock.

🇸🇬 AI Day in Singapore Saturday 7/5. Classes from Vincent Tatan and Manus AI Co-Founder Tao Zhang fireside chat.

• 9am Vibe Coding (email to request online classes)

• 1pm Gen AI for Professionals: Branding, Content & Automation (email to request online classes)

• 5pm Fireside chat with Manus AI's Co-Founder Tao Zhang moderated by Patrick Cao (GoTo Group's Co-Founder) RSVP. Manus AI is hiring in Singapore, Tokyo & SF. The event is made possible thanks to the Singapore Global Network and AGILE at Ngee Ann Polytechnic.

💻 Anthony DiMarco’s (Google 2002-09 & Ironman) Overcoming Workplace Resistance & Building a Resilient Team. RSVP

Find your tribe within Xoogler

🧑‍💻 Are you an independent consultant, fractional exec or solopreneur? Let’s get all Xooglers featured in one place. Sign up here.

✈️ Are you a digital nomad? Reply with your WhatsApp number to join our new chat group and plan to work alongside Xooglers around the world 🌍! Let’s combine our talents and give back to local communities in our 20% time.

Thank you Stephanie Davis & Google Dublin

Google alumni were welcomed back to Google Dublin thanks to the leadership of Stephanie Davis, GCS EMEA Google VP on Thursday June 26. We also have Tobias Wittmann, Pierre-Edouard Bouygues, Mahima Tailang and many other Googlers for hosting. Other Google offices and non-Google hosts for the Xoogler community are always welcome! Check out the comments in this post. Reply with your WhatsApp to join the Dublin group.

Thank you to Xoogler’s Financial Supporters

We really appreciate everyone’s leadership and time over the past 10 years. Here is the donation link if you are able to financially support Xoogler. Thank you Shoresh Shafei, Catherine Lacavera, Mailine Swildens, Ram Muthiah, Steven Klebe, Alex Papageorgiou and Cara Devins for donating! Our non-profit can now accept donations of startup equity.

Unlock the Full Xoogler Experience

Our 35,000+ strong network is about to become even more connected via Key, a community platform that’s unifying all the Xoogler resources:

• Member Directory – Find collaborators, mentors, or reconnect with former teammates

• Knowledge Base – Access insights from over 100 topic and location-based channels

• Events Calendar – Stay informed about meetups, workshops, and networking sessions

• Job Board – Explore opportunities shared directly by fellow Xooglers

• Single Sign-On – One login gives you access to all current and future features

• Benefits - Access exclusive benefits available to Xoogler Founders!

Key was created after Chris and Kushagra struggled to connect 1,500 impacted Googlers after the 2023 layoffs. It’s now here to support the entire community.

You can sign up here to join.

EVENTS & CALENDAR

Subscribe to the Xoogler calendar to be informed of our upcoming events. All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co!

Once you organize a Xoogler event, just submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar for members to sign up!

Resources & Ways to Plug In

• X Studio | 90-day program to ideate, validate, and build your startup. 👉 Sign up here

• For Accredited Investors | Want to join the Xoogler Angels community? 👉 Email your check size and investment experience.

• Expert Network | Are you a subject matter expert? Join the Expert Network. 👉 Sign up here

• Lead | Inspired by Xoogler? We’re here to help you kickstart and grow your own alumni network 👉 Learn more here

• Volunteer | Xoogler is powered by The Network Institute, a non-profit that thrives on volunteer leadership 👉 Learn more here

• Stay in the Loop | Subscribe to the Xoogler Calendar for upcoming events

💼 Jobs & Hiring

• Need to hire Xooglers? 👉 Email us to connect

• Want to feature a job? 👉 Email for details

• Open to a new role? 👉 Fill this form

• For Solopreneurs 👉 Dive into the directory here
  

Ask the Network

Have a question for fellow Xooglers? Curious about tech stacks, fundraising lessons, or switching industries? Drop your question below — we’ll feature a few in the next issue.

Leave your question in the comments below — we’ll feature a few in the next edition and bring the wisdom of the community right to you.

Let’s crowdsource some answers. 🚀

As we enter our second decade, Xoogler stands at an exciting inflection point and we want your involvement to make our second decade even more impactful. What began as a small support community for aspiring venture backed startup founders has evolved into a global community of over 35,000 members, including builders of all kinds (tech startups, solopreneurs, lifestyle businesses, etc), operators, investors, and dreamers, united by shared experiences and a collective ambition. This milestone isn’t just about looking back; it’s about looking ahead. Together, we’re refining our mission, aligning our values, and setting the foundation for what the next 10 years can become.

As part of this reflection, we’re revisited the core principles that shaped us that will continue to guide our growth. Take a look and share your thoughts → here, especially on how our community can better support your journey. For example, should we organize more X2X classes like Anthony DiMarco’s (Google 2002-09) Overcoming Workplace Resistance & Building a Resilient Team, sessions like Vincent Tatan’s (Google 2019-23) Vibe Coding or other classes to prepare you for a work environment that’s being disrupted by the advances in AI? 📧 Email me to share what classes would be useful for you.

If you are in London 🇬🇧 for Tech Week, email to join our WhatsApp group for us to find each other. You can also access the global directory and connect with members with common interests here and see all our events here. If you’re in Oxford on Sunday June 8, please join our meetup!

Google Ireland 🇮🇪 is hosting a gathering for the community in the EMEA HQ in Dublin! Please rsvp here to join the 26th June 5:30pm event, and spread the word to your fellow Xooglers in Dublin. You’ll get to hear from a panel of Googlers and Xooglers on the power of networking, how to leverage your experience at Google for future career moves, tips to improve day to day productivity with Google’s latest AI tools, and most importantly, catch up with old friends and forge new connections!

Thank you to Xoogler’s Financial Supporters

We really appreciate everyone’s leadership and time over the past 10 years. Here is the donation link if you are able to financially support Xoogler. Thank you Catherine Lacavera, Mailine Swildens, Ram Muthiah, Steven Klebe, Alex Papageorgiou and Cara Devins for donating! Our non-profit can now accept donations of startup equity.

Shoutout to Our Community Builders

This community is only as strong as its people — and we’re lucky to have some incredible leaders shaping meaningful spaces for growth and connection.

👏 Prasanna Loganathar (Singapore), Sadasia McCutchen (San Francisco), Sera Unlu (Cannes on June 17), Soohyun Bae (Seoul on June 13), Stefanie Lau, Kazuki Notsu, Kushagra Shrivastava, Hadas Shahak Ben-Horin (Seattle on June 26) and many more — thank you for showing up with purpose and heart. We’re grateful for all that you do.

Unlock the Full Xoogler Experience

Our 35,000+ strong network is about to become even more connected via Key, a community platform that’s unifying all the Xoogler resources:

• Member Directory – Find collaborators, mentors, or reconnect with former teammates

• Knowledge Base – Access insights from over 100 topic and location-based channels

• Events Calendar – Stay informed about meetups, workshops, and networking sessions

• Job Board – Explore opportunities shared directly by fellow Xooglers

• Single Sign-On – One login gives you access to all current and future features

• Benefits - Access exclusive benefits available to Xoogler Founders!

Key was created after Chris and Kushagra struggled to connect 1,500 impacted Googlers after the 2023 layoffs. It’s now here to support the entire community.

You can sign up here to join.

EVENTS & CALENDAR

Subscribe to the Xoogler calendar to be informed of our upcoming events. All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co!

Once you organize a Xoogler event, just submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar for members to sign up!

SELECT EVENTS

You can review the calendar for the full list of events, many are hosted between newsletter distribution dates. There will be 3 events/week in the SF Bay Area from June 15 🙌.

Europe
🇬🇧 Google DeepMind alumni event - Research to ventures: AI founders night | RSVP | 6 PM BST London — Jun 9

🇬🇧 Xoogler London Meetup | RSVP | 5 PM BST London — Jun 10

🇪🇸 🇫🇷 Xoogler Virtual Lunch Club – Spain & France Edition 🍽️ | RSVP | 5 PM CEST Online — Jun 12

🇮🇪 Dublin June Virtual Meetup | RSVP | 5 PM BST Online — Jun 12

🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇵🇹 Xoogler Virtual Lunch Club – UK, Ireland & Portugal Edition 🍽️ | RSVP | 1 PM BST Online — Jun 13

🇫🇷 Wake Up & Connect: Xoogler Morning Meetup at Cannes Lions | RSVP | 5.30 PM CEST Cannes — Jun 17

🇸🇪 🇩🇰 Xoogler Virtual Lunch Club – Nordics Edition 🍽️ | RSVP | 1 PM CEST | 2 PM EEST | 11 AM GMT Online — Jun 13

🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 Xoogler Virtual Lunch Club – DACH Edition 🍽️ | RSVP | 1 PM CEST Online — Jun 20

💻 Xoogler Virtual Lunch Club – Central Western Europe Edition 🍽️ | RSVP | 1 PM CEST | Online — Jun 26

🇮🇪 Dublin June In-Person Meetup at Google EMEA HQ | RSVP | 5.30 PM — Jun 26

💻 Xoogler Virtual Lunch Club – Southern Europe Edition 🍽️ | RSVP | 1 PM CEST | 2PM EEST Online — Jun 27

Asia-Pacific
🇰🇷 Seoul Xoogler meetup | RSVP | 8 PM KST South Korea — Jun 13

🇮🇳 Xoogler India 2035 Input Session | RSVP | 5.30 PM IST Ahmedabad — Jun 26

🇸🇬 Vibe Coding 101 Workshop | RSVP | 9 AM SGT Singapore — Jul 5

🇸🇬 Generative AI for Career Masterclass | RSVP | 1 PM SGT Singapore — Jul 5

🇦🇺 Xoogler Sydney Meetup | RSVP | 4:30pm Sydney — Jul 24

Online
💻 Founders & Mothers: Meet Two Remarkable Women Redefining Success | RSVP | 4 PM UTC Online — Jun 11

💻 Overcoming Workplace Resistance & Building a Resilient Team! | RSVP | TBD

Resources & Ways to Plug In

• X Studio | 90-day program to ideate, validate, and build your startup. 👉 Sign up here

• For Accredited Investors | Want to join the Xoogler Angels community? 👉 Email your check size and investment experience.

• Expert Network | Are you a subject matter expert? Join the Expert Network. 👉 Sign up here

• Lead | Inspired by Xoogler? We’re here to help you kickstart and grow your own alumni network 👉 Learn more here

• Volunteer | Xoogler is powered by The Network Institute, a non-profit that thrives on volunteer leadership 👉 Learn more here

• Stay in the Loop | Subscribe to the Xoogler Calendar for upcoming events

💼 Jobs & Hiring

• Need to hire Xooglers? 👉 Email us to connect

• Want to feature a job? 👉 Email for details

• Open to a new role? 👉 Fill this form

• For Solopreneurs 👉 Dive into the directory here
  

WATCH

Xoogler Founders Pitch Day (May). Email partner@xoogler.co to join the next monthly pitch day as an investor or founder!

• Tingz – Create and monetize AI-generated games from a single prompt.

• Teamwork Unlocked – Leadership training through custom escape rooms.

• SushiData – Reimagining how we visualize massive data.

• ISA – A space-tech nonprofit backed by NASA, launching Lunar Labs for frontier innovation.

Ask the Network

Have a question for fellow Xooglers? Curious about tech stacks, fundraising lessons, or switching industries? Drop your question below — we’ll feature a few in the next issue.

Leave your question in the comments below — we’ll feature a few in the next edition and bring the wisdom of the community right to you.

Let’s crowdsource some answers. 🚀

Thank you Stefanie Lau for planning Xoogler’s 10th year anniversary camping weekend. We reviewed the impact the community has made and growth to over 35,000 members and discussed the values and operating principles for the organization as we enter our second decade. Angela Wong, Ankit Jain, Christopher Fong, Howard Tung, Kazuki Notsu, Kushagra Shrivastava, Lei Xu, MinhHa Pham, Sal Mohammed, Stefanie Lau, Terry O'Connor and Yigit Ihlamur were able to join in-person. We also received input from Adam Sah, Angelica Handover, Anthony Hernandez, Brain Rabben, Catherine Lacavera, Hadas Shahak Ben Horin, Julien Condamines, Kevin Yen, Mark Grozen-Smith, Nathaniel Dumas, Sandeep Jain, Veronique Lafargue, Vibhu Mittal and others ahead of time.

Here are the Operating Principles that were discussed. Your input is appreciated, please share them here.

• Empower the Next Wave: Championing and enabling the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators.

• Scrappy Ingenuity, Collective Impact: Embracing resourcefulness and leveraging our community's power for significant, positive change.

• Genuine Connection, Shared Growth: Fostering authentic relationships and a supportive environment where everyone can learn and develop.

• Beyond Ourselves, A Legacy of Giving: Committing our collective talents to create lasting positive influence in the world.

Please share your input in-person if you’re in Ahmedabad 🇮🇳, Dublin 🇮🇪, London 🇬🇧, San Francisco 🇺🇸, Singapore 🇸🇬 or Sydney 🇦🇺.

We really appreciate everyone’s leadership and time over the past 10 years. Here is the donation link if you are able to financially support Xoogler. Thank you Catherine Lacavera, Ram Muthiah, Steven Klebe, Alex Papageorgiou and Cara Devins for donating!

Engineering lead to help connect Xooglers

Kushagra and Chris are seeking an exceptional Engineering Lead in Palo Alto to oversee the development of the community platform. You'll be responsible for architecting and implementing a high-performance, scalable application that handles real-time communication, event management, community spaces, polls, newsletters, AI agents and integration with third-party services. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in building real-time systems that can handle high volumes of concurrent users without performance degradation.

Meetup around Google I/O on Thursday May 22

Remi Cossart (Google 2018-2020) started and sold Weekend Health to Weight Watchers in 19 months for $132M+. He also sold his prior company, Onward to Google in 2018.

Join us for this Xoogler fireside chat as he shares his story of finding the right startups to work on, fundraising journey and how he successfully sells companies. RSVP. Thank you Calvin Young and Remi for providing Xoogler Ventures with an allocation for your startup.

Thank you Wayne Hu and Sadasia McCutchen for providing space at SignalFire’s SF office for this event! We welcome other space and food/drinks sponsors for the Xoogler community, reach out via partner@xoogler.co to learn more.

Investors please email to hear of startups looking for funding and Xoogler startups, reach out to pitch at our next demo day. Congrats to the startups that pitched on May 15!

Connect with the community

Our incredible 30,000+ strong community is about to become even more connected! We're giving the community access to all the Xoogler resources under a single, seamless login – no more juggling across multiple platforms. Sign up here.

• Member Directory: Finally, a way to discover and connect with fellow Xooglers! Find potential collaborators, mentors, or reconnect with old teammates.

• Permanent Knowledge Base: No more lost conversations! Access discussions across 100+ topic and location-based channels, preserving our community's valuable insights that were previously lost due to Slack's 90-day limit.

• Centralized Events Calendar: Never miss another Xoogler meetup, workshop, or networking session. All community events in one place, with easy submission for organizers.

• Exclusive Job Board: Direct access to opportunities shared by fellow Xooglers (reach out to get early access).

• Single Sign-On: One login gives you access to chat, events, calendar, member directory, jobs, and all future features.

What's Coming Next. We're just getting started! Our roadmap includes:

• Advanced AI-powered networking features

• Enhanced job board with personalized recommendations

• More tools to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing

Additional community-driven initiatives. Help shape our future!

We're actively seeking community members to:

• Provide feedback on new features

• Suggest improvements

• Help build new capabilities

• Lead community initiatives

Let's make the Xoogler community stronger than ever! 💪 Kushagra and Chris decided to build a platform after struggling to add 1,500 impacted Googlers to a calendar invite and being helpful to everyone that was impacted during the 12,000 layoff period. Sign up here.

Volunteering your time with Xoogler

Xoogler is managed by The Network Institute, a non-profit empowering professionals from various industries to pursue continuing education, enhance their career development, and foster innovation, particularly in the fields of science and technology. We would like to encourage Xooglers to consider volunteering to enhance your alumni community. Why Lead a Group?

• Make meaningful impact in areas you care about

• Build valuable professional relationships

• Create opportunities for others

• Expand your influence and give back

Please share your details here to learn more about these opportunities.

JOBS

🙌 Xoogler has a recruiter for the community to assist with hiring.

• If you’re looking to hire xooglers, your company has a recruiter or your VC firm has a talent partner, email to be connected to start hiring from the community.

• If you’re open to a new role, please fill in this form for the recruiter to consider your background for openings.

• Do your want your job featured for a nominal amount? Email for more details.

OPPORTUNITIES

Venture Fellows: Xoogler Ventures is seeking 1 more Venture Fellow for 2025 to help partners with deal flow, opportunity assessment portfolio management, marketing and more. This is great opportunity to learn about the world of Venture Capital. Background in Corp Dev or Strategy are strongly preferred. If interested, please apply here.

💰If you’re an accredited investor, email your usual check size and the number of investments you’ve invested in the past 2 years to be added to the Xoogler angels community.

🚀 If you’re looking to raise funds as a startup founder, you can submit your interest for the Xoogler Investment Syndicate here. Companies funded include FalconX and Workstream. Exits include Pointy and CoScreen.

X Studio: 90 day program for startup founders to ideate, validate, and build a business. Sign up here.

Expert Network: Xooglers are subject matter experts and widely sought after. If you are willing to spend time to help our members in their journey please sign up here to learn more about the Expert Network marketplace.

🚀 Ankit Jain has organized feedback for Xooglers applying for Y Combinator. Email him to get feedback on your application and prepare for your interview.

EVENTS & CALENDAR

Subscribe to the Xoogler calendar to be informed of our upcoming events. All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co!

Once you organize a Xoogler event, just submit the event and we will approve it to be featured on the Xoogler calendar for members to sign up!

Thank you Sera Unlu for organizing the meetup at Cannes Lions 🇫🇷 on June 17 and Soo Jung Han and Soohyun Bae for organizing the meetup in Seoul 🇰🇷 on June 13.

WATCH

Personal Finance: Building Generational Wealth for Kids with Ali Moiz, Co-Founder Mora.com moderated by Stefanie Lau.

Architecting climate solutions: Orchestrating data, AI, and software for impact with Mark Grozen-Smith and Veronique Lafargue

Our incredible 30,000+ strong community is about to become even more connected! We're giving the community access to all the Xoogler resources under a single, seamless login – no more juggling across multiple platforms. Sign up here.

• Member Directory: Finally, a way to discover and connect with fellow Xooglers! Find potential collaborators, mentors, or reconnect with old teammates.

• Permanent Knowledge Base: No more lost conversations! Access discussions across 100+ topic and location-based channels, preserving our community's valuable insights that were previously lost due to Slack's 90-day limit.

• Centralized Events Calendar: Never miss another Xoogler meetup, workshop, or networking session. All community events in one place, with easy submission for organizers.

• Exclusive Job Board: Direct access to opportunities shared by fellow Xooglers (reach out to get early access).

• Single Sign-On: One login gives you access to chat, events, calendar, member directory, jobs, and all future features.

What's Coming Next. We're just getting started! Our roadmap includes:

• Advanced AI-powered networking features

• Enhanced job board with personalized recommendations

• More tools to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing

Additional community-driven initiatives. Help shape our future!

We're actively seeking community members to:

• Provide feedback on new features

• Suggest improvements

• Help build new capabilities

• Lead community initiatives

Let's make the Xoogler community stronger than ever! 💪 Kushagra and Chris decided to build a platform after struggling to add 1,500 impacted Googlers to a calendar invite and being helpful to everyone that was impacted during the 12,000 layoff period. Sign up here.

Volunteering your time with Xoogler

Xoogler is managed by The Network Institute, a non-profit empowering professionals from various industries to pursue continuing education, enhance their career development, and foster innovation, particularly in the fields of science and technology. We would like to encourage Xooglers to consider volunteering to enhance your alumni community. Why Lead a Group?

• Make meaningful impact in areas you care about

• Build valuable professional relationships

• Create opportunities for others

• Expand your influence and give back

Please share your details here to learn more about these opportunities.

JOBS

🙌 Xoogler has a recruiter for the community to assist with hiring.

• If you’re looking to hire xooglers, your company has a recruiter or your VC firm has a talent partner, email to be connected to start hiring from the community.

• If you’re open to a new role, please fill in this form for the recruiter to consider your background for openings.

• Do your want your job featured for a nominal amount? Email for more details.

🧳 Founding team (Stanford AI/systems background) has authored 20+ AI papers and raised $40M+ across ventures is looking to connect with Xooglers experienced in computer-aided engineering and simulation. We're revolutionizing engineering workflows by combining AI, systems, and simulation. Open to discussing founding/founding engineer roles with those who've worked on similar challenges. Email to be connected.

🧳 Abel Mengistu, CEO/Co-Founder of FlutterFlow is hiring in the US 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, India 🇮🇳, Singapore 🇸🇬, Latin America & Remote 🌍. Review the openings and email talent@xoogler.co to be connected.

🧳 Are you interested in joining a Xoogler that was at Google 2000-2009? He’s looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer (Finetuning) and a Platform Software Engineer. Email talent@xoogler.co.

OPPORTUNITIES

Venture Fellows: Xoogler Ventures is seeking 1 more Venture Fellow for 2025 to help partners with deal flow, opportunity assessment portfolio management, marketing and more. This is great opportunity to learn about the world of Venture Capital. Background in Corp Dev or Strategy are strongly preferred. If interested, please apply here.

💰If you’re an accredited investor, email your usual check size and the number of investments you’ve invested in the past 2 years to be added to the Xoogler angels community.

🚀 If you’re looking to raise funds as a startup founder, you can submit your interest for the Xoogler Investment Syndicate here. Companies funded include FalconX and Workstream. Exits include Pointy and CoScreen.

X Studio: 90 day program for startup founders to ideate, validate, and build a business. Sign up here.

Expert Network: Xooglers are subject matter experts and widely sought after. If you are willing to spend time to help our members in their journey please sign up here to learn more about the Expert Network marketplace.

🚀 Ankit Jain has organized feedback for Xooglers applying for Y Combinator. Email him to get feedback on your application and prepare for your interview.

WATCH

How AI agents are transforming renewable energy projects with Mark Grozen-Smith moderated by Veronique Lafargue

EVENTS & CALENDAR

All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co!

We’ve received requests for more local meetups, be sure to join the online meetups for your city where you can meet others and plan in-person event as well!

🇸🇬 Singapore Feb 24 10:30am SGT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇦🇺 Sydney Feb 24 1pm AEDT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇦🇺 Melbourne Feb 24 3pm AEDT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇮🇳 Hyderabad Feb 24 8:30 am IST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City Feb 24 1pm ICT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇨🇳 Beijing Feb 24 3pm CST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇸🇬 Singapore Feb 24 6pm Insights from Silicon Valley with Angelica Handover. RSVP

🇺🇸 Boston Feb 24 8pm EST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 Pittsburgh Feb 24 9pm EST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 Austin Feb 24 8pm CST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 Denver / Boulder Feb 24 8pm MST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Feb 25 11am HKT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇩🇪 Berlin Feb 25 9:30 am CET RSVP to join our online meetup

🇵🇱 Warsaw Feb 25 10:30 am CET RSVP to join our online meetup

🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur Feb 25 2pm MYT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇮🇳 Mumbai Feb 25 10am IST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇮🇪 Dublin Feb 25 8am GMT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇹🇼 Taipei Feb 25 3pm CST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 Los Angeles Feb 25 7pm PST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇯🇵 Tokyo Feb 26 1pm JST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇦🇪 Dubai Feb 26 10am GST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇨🇭 Zurich Feb 26 8am CET RSVP to join our online meetup

🇬🇧 London Feb 26 11:30am GMT RSVP to join our online meetup

♀️Feb 26 9am PST Women@Xoogler.co Tax Planning. RSVP

🇧🇷 São Paulo Feb 26 9am BRT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 Miami Feb 26 8pm EST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 Seattle Feb 26 6pm PST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇮🇳 New Delhi Feb 27 10am IST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇰🇷 Seoul Feb 27 3pm IST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 New York Feb 27 8am EST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 SF Bay Area Feb 27 6pm IST RSVP to join our online meetup

♻️ Feb 27 9am PST Hear from Pierre Paslier, Founder and CEO of Notpla, a family of regenerative packaging materials, made from seaweed and plants. RSVP

🇮🇳 Bangalore Feb 28 9am IST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇮🇱 Tel Aviv Feb 28 9am IST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇹🇷 Istanbul Feb 28 9am TRT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇸🇬 ⁠Feb 28 5pm Net-Walking. RSVP

♻️ Mar 4 9am PST Hear from Julia Marsh, CEO and Co-Founder of Sway, a material innovation startup scaling seaweed-based, home-compostable packaging. RSVP

♀️🗽Mar 8 12pm NYC Brunch for Women founders and execs. RSVP

🇸🇬 ⁠Mar 13 5pm Singapore Careers Panel. RSVP

🇸🇬 ⁠Mar 14 5pm Singapore Personal Finance Meetup with Sherry Jiang RSVP

🚀 Mar 13 EMEA Demo Day. Startup Application | Investor RSVP

🇸🇬 ⁠Mar 18 5pm AI Espresso Shots organized by Prasanna Loganathar. RSVP

♻️ Mar 18 8am PST Hear from Shingai Samudzi, CEO of Asoba, a utility scale virtual power plant company, based in both San Francisco and Cape Town. RSVP

🇦🇪 Mar 20 12pm GST Insights on getting funded by Christopher Fong hosted by Ahlem Mahroua. RSVP

🇺🇸 Mar 21 TGI AI Palo Alto & Online 5pm PST. Learn the latest from Silicon Valley organized by Kushagra Shrivastava and Navneet Singh. RSVP

🇺🇸 Mar 22 10am PST SF Bay Area Xoogler Women Hike Meetup RSVP

🇺🇸 Seattle 26 Feb 6pm PST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇨🇳 Mar 26 Shanghai Meetup organized by Pian Li. RSVP

🚀 Mar 26 Bay Area Founders Lunch with Accel’s Casey Aylward organized by Ankit Jain. RSVP. Investors, email Ankit to speak at future founder lunches.

🇬🇧 Mar 28 NYC and Women@Xoogler.co leader Stefanie Lau is in London. Don’t miss out on meeting her and Sal Mohammed! RSVP

♀️Apr 16 12pm EST: Women@Xoogler.co RSUs and You. RSVP

🇨🇳 Apr 19 Beijing Meetup. RSVP

🇺🇸 Apr 26 10am PST SF Bay Area Xoogler Women Hike Meetup RSVP

us May 7 11am PST 2pm EST Women@Xoogler.co Money Talk: Jerene's Investment Q&A. RSVP to join our online meetup

us May 11 10am PST SF/Bay Area Xooglers @ Presidio Popup (family event) organized by Stefanie Lau. RSVP

💻 Startup mentorship organized by Yiğit Ihlamur and Kazuki Notsu. RSVP

❤️ If you’re single and ready to mingle, meet Echo, Cup of Tea’s AI super-connector! Get started here, we’ll get you to message Echo and she’ll chat with you to introduce you to awesome connections.

Our incredible 30,000+ strong community is about to become even more connected! We're giving the community access to all the Xoogler resources under a single, seamless login – no more juggling across multiple platforms. Sign up here.

• Member Directory: Finally, a way to discover and connect with fellow Xooglers! Find potential collaborators, mentors, or reconnect with old teammates.

• Permanent Knowledge Base: No more lost conversations! Access discussions across 100+ topic and location-based channels, preserving our community's valuable insights that were previously lost due to Slack's 90-day limit.

• Centralized Events Calendar: Never miss another Xoogler meetup, workshop, or networking session. All community events in one place, with easy submission for organizers.

• Exclusive Job Board: Direct access to opportunities shared by fellow Xooglers (reach out to get early access).

• Single Sign-On: One login gives you access to chat, events, calendar, member directory, jobs, and all future features.

What's Coming Next. We're just getting started! Our roadmap includes:

• Advanced AI-powered networking features

• Enhanced job board with personalized recommendations

• More tools to facilitate collaboration and knowledge sharing

Additional community-driven initiatives. Help shape our future!

We're actively seeking community members to:

• Provide feedback on new features

• Suggest improvements

• Help build new capabilities

• Lead community initiatives

Let's make the Xoogler community stronger than ever! 💪 Kushagra and Chris decided to build a platform after struggling to add 1,500 impacted Googlers to a calendar invite and being helpful to everyone that was impacted during the 12,000 layoff period. Sign up here.

Volunteering your time with Xoogler

Xoogler is managed by The Network Institute, a non-profit empowering professionals from various industries to pursue continuing education, enhance their career development, and foster innovation, particularly in the fields of science and technology. We would like to encourage Xooglers to consider volunteering to enhance your alumni community. Why Lead a Group?

• Make meaningful impact in areas you care about

• Build valuable professional relationships

• Create opportunities for others

• Expand your influence and give back

Please share your details here to learn more about these opportunities.

JOBS

🙌 Xoogler has a recruiter for the community to assist with hiring.

• If you’re looking to hire xooglers, your company has a recruiter or your VC firm has a talent partner, email to be connected to start hiring from the community.

• If you’re open to a new role, please fill in this form for the recruiter to consider your background for openings.

• Do your want your job featured for a nominal amount? Email for more details.

🧳 Founding team (Stanford AI/systems background) has authored 20+ AI papers and raised $40M+ across ventures is looking to connect with Xooglers experienced in computer-aided engineering and simulation. We're revolutionizing engineering workflows by combining AI, systems, and simulation. Open to discussing founding/founding engineer roles with those who've worked on similar challenges. Email to be connected.

🧳 Abel Mengistu, CEO/Co-Founder of FlutterFlow is hiring in the US 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, India 🇮🇳, Singapore 🇸🇬, Latin America & Remote 🌍. Review the openings and email talent@xoogler.co to be connected.

🧳 Are you interested in joining a Xoogler that was at Google 2000-2009? He’s looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer (Finetuning) and a Platform Software Engineer. Email talent@xoogler.co.

OPPORTUNITIES

Venture Fellows: Xoogler Ventures is seeking 1 more Venture Fellow for 2025 to help partners with deal flow, opportunity assessment portfolio management, marketing and more. This is great opportunity to learn about the world of Venture Capital. Background in Corp Dev or Strategy are strongly preferred. If interested, please apply here.

💰If you’re an accredited investor, email your usual check size and the number of investments you’ve invested in the past 2 years to be added to the Xoogler angels community.

🚀 If you’re looking to raise funds as a startup founder, you can submit your interest for the Xoogler Investment Syndicate here. Companies funded include FalconX and Workstream. Exits include Pointy and CoScreen.

X Studio: 90 day program for startup founders to ideate, validate, and build a business. Sign up here.

Expert Network: Xooglers are subject matter experts and widely sought after. If you are willing to spend time to help our members in their journey please sign up here to learn more about the Expert Network marketplace.

🚀 Ankit Jain has organized feedback for Xooglers applying for Y Combinator. Email him to get feedback on your application and prepare for your interview.

WATCH

How AI agents are transforming renewable energy projects with Mark Grozen-Smith moderated by Veronique Lafargue

EVENTS & CALENDAR

All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event and email partner@xoogler.co!

We’ve received requests for more local meetups, be sure to join the online meetups for your city where you can meet others and plan in-person event as well!

🇸🇬 Singapore Feb 24 10:30am SGT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇦🇺 Sydney Feb 24 1pm AEDT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇦🇺 Melbourne Feb 24 3pm AEDT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇮🇳 Hyderabad Feb 24 8:30 am IST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City Feb 24 1pm ICT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇨🇳 Beijing Feb 24 3pm CST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇸🇬 Singapore Feb 24 6pm Insights from Silicon Valley with Angelica Handover. RSVP

🇺🇸 Boston Feb 24 8pm EST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 Pittsburgh Feb 24 9pm EST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 Austin Feb 24 8pm CST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 Denver / Boulder Feb 24 8pm MST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇭🇰 Hong Kong Feb 25 11am HKT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇩🇪 Berlin Feb 25 9:30 am CET RSVP to join our online meetup

🇵🇱 Warsaw Feb 25 10:30 am CET RSVP to join our online meetup

🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur Feb 25 2pm MYT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇮🇳 Mumbai Feb 25 10am IST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇮🇪 Dublin Feb 25 8am GMT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇹🇼 Taipei Feb 25 3pm CST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 Los Angeles Feb 25 7pm PST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇯🇵 Tokyo Feb 26 1pm JST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇦🇪 Dubai Feb 26 10am GST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇨🇭 Zurich Feb 26 8am CET RSVP to join our online meetup

🇬🇧 London Feb 26 11:30am GMT RSVP to join our online meetup

♀️Feb 26 9am PST Women@Xoogler.co Tax Planning. RSVP

🇧🇷 São Paulo Feb 26 9am BRT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 Miami Feb 26 8pm EST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 Seattle Feb 26 6pm PST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇮🇳 New Delhi Feb 27 10am IST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇰🇷 Seoul Feb 27 3pm IST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 New York Feb 27 8am EST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇺🇸 SF Bay Area Feb 27 6pm IST RSVP to join our online meetup

♻️ Feb 27 9am PST Hear from Pierre Paslier, Founder and CEO of Notpla, a family of regenerative packaging materials, made from seaweed and plants. RSVP

🇮🇳 Bangalore Feb 28 9am IST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇮🇱 Tel Aviv Feb 28 9am IST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇹🇷 Istanbul Feb 28 9am TRT RSVP to join our online meetup

🇸🇬 ⁠Feb 28 5pm Net-Walking. RSVP

♻️ Mar 4 9am PST Hear from Julia Marsh, CEO and Co-Founder of Sway, a material innovation startup scaling seaweed-based, home-compostable packaging. RSVP

♀️🗽Mar 8 12pm NYC Brunch for Women founders and execs. RSVP

🇸🇬 ⁠Mar 13 5pm Singapore Careers Panel. RSVP

🇸🇬 ⁠Mar 14 5pm Singapore Personal Finance Meetup with Sherry Jiang RSVP

🚀 Mar 13 EMEA Demo Day. Startup Application | Investor RSVP

🇸🇬 ⁠Mar 18 5pm AI Espresso Shots organized by Prasanna Loganathar. RSVP

♻️ Mar 18 8am PST Hear from Shingai Samudzi, CEO of Asoba, a utility scale virtual power plant company, based in both San Francisco and Cape Town. RSVP

🇦🇪 Mar 20 12pm GST Insights on getting funded by Christopher Fong hosted by Ahlem Mahroua. RSVP

🇺🇸 Mar 21 TGI AI Palo Alto & Online 5pm PST. Learn the latest from Silicon Valley organized by Kushagra Shrivastava and Navneet Singh. RSVP

🇺🇸 Seattle 26 Feb 6pm PST RSVP to join our online meetup

🇨🇳 Mar 26 Shanghai Meetup organized by Pian Li. RSVP

🚀 Mar 26 Bay Area Founders Lunch with Accel’s Casey Aylward organized by Ankit Jain. RSVP. Investors, email Ankit to speak at future founder lunches.

🇬🇧 Mar 28 NYC and Women@Xoogler.co leader Stefanie Lau is in London. Don’t miss out on meeting her and Sal Mohammed! RSVP

♀️Apr 16 12pm EST: Women@Xoogler.co RSUs and You. RSVP

🇨🇳 Apr 19 Beijing Meetup. RSVP

💻 Startup mentorship organized by Yiğit Ihlamur and Kazuki Notsu. RSVP

❤️ If you’re single and ready to mingle, meet Echo, Cup of Tea’s AI super-connector! Get started here, we’ll get you to message Echo and she’ll chat with you to introduce you to awesome connections.

Have you enjoyed Xoogler events or benefited from the community since our founding in 2015? We have not charged any membership fees and are supported by the generosity ❤️ of this community. Please consider donating to Xoogler which is now under a non-profit foundation to enable US taxpayers to receive a tax deduction before Dec 31, 2024. Here is the link to donate.

RECONNECTING YOU WITH MORE XOOGLERS

📈 With our community growing to over 30,000 members we need a better way to connect Xooglers with each other e.g. Slack messages expire and there isn’t a membership directory for you to understand who is in the community.

You can sign up for early access for our new community platform here, we welcome your feedback and how it can be more useful to you 🙏.

In addition, as you consider your plans for 2025, I’d like to offer this opportunity for you to volunteer for Xoogler to reconnect with more Xoogler members and grow professionally. Since our founding we’ve witnessed the incredible power of our community. From landing dream jobs to launching successful startups, from finding mentors to becoming investors – the impact has been remarkable.

There’s been growing requests to create focused interest groups within our community. Many of you have stepped up to organize local meetups, lead functional groups, and drive impact-focused initiatives. It's time to take this energy to the next level! 🚀 We're looking for and helping passionate leaders to build and run dedicated interest groups around three key areas:

1. Geographic Chapters - Perfect for those who want to strengthen local Xoogler networks or are recent transplants. Thank you to longstanding leaders like Stef Lau in NY, Hadas Shahak Ben-Horin in Seattle, Alex Ausch in Toronto, Anthony Hernandez in Miami, Till Dietrich in Hamburg and Sal Mohammed in London.

2. Professional Tracks - Ideal for those who want to deepen functional expertise (e.g. AI, Engineering Communities, PM Networks, Marketing Collectives, Sales Networks, Design Groups, Operations Teams, etc.). Thank you to Max Greenwald for your leadership with the APM community, Navneet Singh and Kushagra Shrivastava for organizing the TGI-AI series and Yiğit Ihlamur and Kazuki Notsu for organizing the masterclasses, mentoring, TGIF and Tokyo meetups.

3. Special Interest Groups - Great for those passionate about specific causes or interests, such as climate, education innovation, Web3, healthcare technology, family life, career transitions, FIRE, digital nomad, Y Combinator applications and more. Thank you Nathaniel Dumas, Veronique Lafargue, Mark Grozen-Smith and Ankit Jain for your leadership in the Education, Climate and YC Application groups.

Why Lead a Group?

• Make meaningful impact in areas you care about

• Build valuable professional relationships

• Create opportunities for others

• Expand your influence and give back

Please share your details here to learn more about these opportunities.

JOBS

🙌 Xoogler has a recruiter for the community to assist with hiring:

• If you’re looking to hire xooglers, your company has a recruiter or your VC firm has a talent partner, email to be connected to start hiring from the community.

• If you’re open to a new role, please fill in this form for the recruiter to consider your background for openings.

🧳 Tier 1 VC funded startup is looking for a full stack founding engineer, AI in SME space.

🧳 Abel Mengistu, CEO/Co-Founder of FlutterFlow is hiring in the US 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, India 🇮🇳, Singapore 🇸🇬, Latin America & Remote 🌍. Review the openings and email talent@xoogler.co to be connected.

🧳 Are you interested in joining a Xoogler that was at Google 2000-2009? He’s looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer (Finetuning) and a Platform Software Engineer. Email talent@xoogler.co.

OPPORTUNITIES

Roth IRAs for Kids: Learn how thousands of parents in the US are leaving $5m+ tax-free for each of their children using Roth IRAs for minors. Compare to college 529 and UTMA/UGMA accounts, and hear from the team at Mora that helps parents plan for this estate & tax strategy. Learn more on December 17.

Speaking in Malaysia & Southeast Asia: Are you interested in sharing your expertise with companies and government agencies in Southeast Asia? If so, share your interest here.

X Studio: We are announcing a 90 day program for startup founders to ideate, validate, and build a business. The program is stage agnostic. Whether you have an idea, have written an app and need help with GTM or anything in between we will partner with you and unblock to build a successful venture. You will be guided with successful startup founders, VCs and experts. To learn more sign-up here.

Expert Network: Xooglers are subject matter experts and widely sought after. If you are willing to spend time to help our members in their journey please sign-up here to learn more about the Expert Network marketplace. Whether it's Applied AI, Revenue Ops, Coaching or GTM all disciplines are welcome to apply. Once verified, you can elect to offer services for a fee or pro bono.

Venture Fellows: Xoogler Ventures is seeking 2 Venture Fellows for 2025 to help partners with deal flow, opportunity assessment portfolio management, marketing and more. This is great opportunity to learn about the world of Venture Capital. Background in Corp Dev or Strategy are strongly preferred. If interested, please apply here.

🚀 Ankit Jain has organized feedback for Xooglers applying for Y Combinator from Xoogler YC alumni. Email him to get feedback on your application and prepare for your interview.

WATCH

Don’t miss out on the learnings and practical insights to shared by Anna Buber, Toby Berger and Deepti Dayal and determine if fractional work is right for you.

EVENTS

All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event! Thank you Jeremy Rome, Till Dietrich, Alex Ausch for organizing events in Berlin 🇩🇪 , Hamburg 🇩🇪 and Toronto 🇨🇦 earlier this month.

💻♻️ 12/10 9am PST Climate Monthly Introduction Call RSVP.

🇸🇬 12/11 6:30pm Singapore Holiday Party. RSVP.

💻♻️ 12/12 8am PST | 11am EST | 4pm GMT Net Zero Angels Demo Day for Xoogler-led Climate Startups. RSVP.

💻 12/12 12pm PST | 3pm EST Fireside Chat with Catherine Chin, Co-founder & CEO of Odyseek on “Perfecting Your Resume and Value Story” moderated by Maciej Szczepaniak. RSVP.

🌁 12/13 5pm Bay Area Holiday Gathering hosted by Catherine Lacavera and Kushagra Shrivastava. RSVP.

🇮🇳 12/15 4:30pm Bangalore Meetup at Indihood featuring Rachna Agarwal, Raghunath Raghunath, Lalitesh Katragadda and Manu Rekhi. RSVP.

💻 12/17 10am PST Webinar with Ali Moiz: Tax savings for kids via custodial Roth IRAs. RSVP.

🇸🇬 12/18 6:30pm Singapore Monthly Drinks hosted by Alaap Tatwawadi. RSVP.

🌁 💻 12/18 5pm PDT Palo Alto & Online TGI AI featuring Vibhu Mittal (Google 2000-09), CTO of Inflection AI. RSVP.

💻 12/19 7pm PST 🇺🇸 | 10pm EST 🇺🇸 | 12/20 8:30am IST 🇮🇳 | 12/20 11am SGT 🇸🇬 | 12/20 12pm JST 🇯🇵 | 12/20 2pm AEDT 🇦🇺 New Member Onboarding. RSVP.

🇯🇵 12/19 5pm Japanese Xoogler TGIF (year end party) at Google Campus hosted by Kazuki Notsu. RSVP.

🇻🇳 12/30 9pm Ho Chi Minh City Drinks. RSVP.

♀️💻 1/14 9am PST | 12pm EST Women@Xoogler.co: Set Your Intentions for 2025 with Megan Hellerer. RSVP.

♀️💻 1/16 9am PST | 12pm EST Women@Xoogler.co Money Talk: Kids & Money Panel. RSVP.

🌁 1/16 12pm Founders Meetup with Maarten Hooft hosted by Ankit Jain. RSVP.

🇫🇷 1/23 6:30pm Paris Meetup organized by Perrine Daumont. RSVP.

🌁 2/25 5pm Fireside chat with Bradley Horowitz. RSVP.

💻 Startup mentorship organized by Yiğit Ihlamur and Kazuki Notsu. RSVP.

RECHARGE AND REBUILD DURING THE HOLIDAYS

Consider updating your resume during the down time. You can check out these tips from Applied Intuition’s Eitan Sheer

And here’s something to reflect on from Google’s former GCAS President, Kirk Perry. Consider your job’s bigger purpose is about the human beings you get to interact with at work than the things you do at work. How can you help lift each other up and help each other achieve their personal ambitions and dreams.

Thank you for reading and please share your feedback on the content you’ve enjoyed and what you want to read less of or more of in 2025.

Have you enjoyed Xoogler events or benefited from the community since our founding in 2015? If so, please give back for us to make the community even stronger. Xoogler is now under a non-profit foundation to enable US taxpayers to receive a tax deduction. Here is the link to donate. Help us continue to unite Xooglers around the world for tech talks, happy hours, founder meetups, job connections and more. Learn more on Wednesday 11/13.

XOOGLER DEMO DAY APAC

🙌 Congrats to Angelica Handover from OpenSeal, Alaap Tatwawadi from Ads In Store, Caesar Sengupta from Arta Finance, Ishi Singh from Counto, Julien Condamines from Novo AI, Mohammed Abdoolcarim from DesignPro, Rohit Shawarikar from Levi Semiconductor, Saif Farooqui from Corgi Labs and Swee Kiat Lim from Pebblely for presenting on October 15! Reach out to organize Xoogler Demo Days in your region! .

🙏 Thank you to the Google Cloud team including Fannie Soubiele and Annie Nguyen Hai Anh for hosting Xoogler Demo Day at Google Singapore, investor panelists Shiyan Koh & Patrick Cao, volunteers Pooja Verma, Arun Kumar, Ethan Tan, Joel Ho & Vasanth Raju and the selection advisory panel consisting of Rajan Anandan, Andy Hwang, Alap Bharadwaj & Tony Zameczkowski.

UPDATES

📈 Our community has 33K+ members. Let us know if you want to set up a community like Xoogler.

♻️ San Francisco Climate Week is the ultimate gathering for those invested in climate tech—bringing together climate curious, founders, and VCs. In 2024, SFCW brought together 18,500 attendees, 750+ organizations, and 350+ events. The Xooglers in Climate hosted an inspiring series of sessions (check out our videos) and we're set to go even bigger in 2025! If you want to be part of this or have suggestions, please take a few minutes to answer our survey. 

💰 More Xooglers are running venture capital funds. Email your ideal check size if you are interested in being an investor in those funds.

🚀 Ankit Jain has organized feedback for Xooglers applying for Y Combinator from Xoogler YC alumni. Email him to get feedback on your application and prepare for your interview.

🌱 Did you work at Microsoft or Meta? Help build “Xoogler” for those communities.

OPPORTUNITIES

Fractional work might be your next full-time job: Learn from Xooglers who have transitioned to fractional work. RSVP.

Speaking in Malaysia & Southeast Asia: Are you interested in sharing your expertise with companies and government agencies in Southeast Asia? If so, share your interest here.

X Studio: We are announcing a 90 day program for startup founders to ideate, validate, and build a business. The program is stage agnostic. Whether you have an idea, have written an app and need help with GTM or anything in between we will partner with you and unblock to build a successful venture. You will be guided with successful startup founders, VCs and experts. To learn more sign-up here.

Expert Network: Xooglers are subject matter experts and widely sought after. If you are willing to spend time to help our members in their journey please sign-up here to learn more about the Expert Network marketplace. Whether it's Applied AI, Revenue Ops, Coaching or GTM all disciplines are welcome to apply. Once verified, you can elect to offer services for a fee or pro bono.

Venture Fellows: Xoogler Ventures is seeking 2 Venture Fellows for 2025 to help partners with deal flow, opportunity assessment portfolio management, marketing and more. This is great opportunity to learn about the world of Venture Capital. Background in Corp Dev or Strategy are strongly preferred. If interested, please apply here.

JOBS

🙌 Xoogler has a recruiter for the community to assist with hiring:

• If you’re looking to hire xooglers, email to be connected and start hiring from the community.

• If you’re open to a new role, email your resume to talent@xoogler.co for our recruiter to consider your background for openings.

🧳 Abel Mengistu, CEO/Co-Founder of FlutterFlow is hiring in the US 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, India 🇮🇳, Singapore 🇸🇬, Latin America & Remote 🌍. Review the openings and email talent@xoogler.co to be connected.

🧳 Are you interested in joining a Xoogler that was at Google 2000-2009? He’s looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer (Finetuning) and a Platform Software Engineer. Email talent@xoogler.co.

WATCH

Learn how to lead in the times of technology disruption and leadership changes from Steve Vamos. He shared his insights from his book, Through Shifts And Shocks.

Learn from Stefanie Lau, Kaitlyn Knopp and Terry O’Connor as they discuss compensation and salary negotiations best practices.

Learn how Thalo Labs tackles decarbonization of the built environment in this fireside chat with their CEO/Founder Brendan Hermalyn, moderated by Veronique Lafargue.

EVENTS

All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event!

💻♻️ 11/12 6pm PST Xooglers in Climate Monthly Introduction Call. RSVP.

💻 11/13 9pm EST | 6pm PST | 11/14 7:30am IST | 10am SGT | 1pm AEST Learn how your donations can help Xoogler support more xoogler members. RSVP.

💻 11/14 9am GMT | 5pm SGT AMA with Renegade Ventures, a new VC fund founded by former Google Play execs Shannon Low and KH Min. RSVP.

💻 🎓 11/14 12pm PST | 3pm EST EdTech Monthly Virtual Meetup. RSVP.

🌁 11/14 4:30pm San Francisco Meetup hosted by DOGO. RSVP.

🌁 11/14 5pm “Commercializing AI Research” Roundtable in Palo Alto, hosted by Yigit Ihlamur and Kazuki Notsu. RSVP.

🇯🇵 11/15 6pm Osaka Meetup hosted by Christopher Fong. RSVP.

🗽 11/16 3pm NYC Friendsgiving Party. RSVP.

💻 11/18 5pm PST | 8pm EST “How To Land A Job During The Holiday Season” Masterclass with Alan Stein. RSVP.

🇯🇵 11/19 6pm Tokyo Meetup hosted by Kushagra Shrivastava. RSVP.

💻 ♻️11/19 9am PST | 12pm EST | 5pm GMT Climate Founders Series with Alex Brown, Co-Founder and CEO of Alga Biosciences. Discover how Alga Biosciences is using algae to address methane emissions in agriculture. RSVP.

🇬🇧 11/19 7pm London EIS & SEIS Masterclass with SeedLegals. RSVP.

🇸🇬 11/20 6:30pm Drinks hosted at Monk’s Brew Club sponsored by SGN. RSVP.

🇮🇳 11/21 7pm Mumbai Meetup with FlutterFlow CEO Abel Mengistu, CTO Alex Greaves & Enterprise Head Abhishek Pathak. RSVP.

💻 11/21 9am PST | 12pm EST Xoogler Womxn and Money: Conquering Money Blocks. Conquering your money fears with money mentor, Katy Mazzara. RSVP.

🇮🇪 💻 11/21 7pm IST Ireland Virtual Meetup. RSVP.

🏝 11/21 5:30pm Miami Happy Hour with Anthony Hernandez. RSVP.

🇬🇧 11/25 6:30pm London Winter Party. RSVP.

🇫🇮 11/26 6pm Helsinki Meetup. RSVP.

💻 11/26 6pm PST Founders meetup moderated by Chris Fong. Meet other Xoogler founders and find ways to support each other. RSVP.

🇪🇸 11/28 7pm Madrid Meetup. RSVP.

💻 🧳 11/29 9:30am IST 11am SGT | 2pm AEST | 11/28 7pm PST Fractional Work Panel featuring Anna Buber, Deepti Dayal & other Xooglers. RSVP.

🇮🇳 December Bangalore Meetup hosted by Manu Rekhi and Lalitesh Katragadda. RSVP.

💻 12/3 9am PST | 12pm EST | 5pm GMT Climate Founders Series with Lauryn Menard, CEO of GOB. Join us to learn how Lauryn and her team at GOB are leveraging material science and mycelium to design sustainable earplugs. RSVP.

🇩🇪 12/4 5:30pm Berlin Meetup. RSVP.

🇩🇪 12/5 6pm Hamburg Holiday Meetup. RSVP.

🇨🇦 12/5 6pm Toronto Drinks and Dinner. RSVP.

🌁 12/5 5pm Bay Area Holiday Meetup. RSVP.

🇸🇬 12/11 6:30pm Singapore Holiday Party. RSVP.

💻 12/11 7pm PST 🇺🇸 | 10pm EST 🇺🇸 | 12/12 8:30am IST 🇮🇳 | 12/12 11am SGT 🇸🇬 | 12/12 12pm JST 🇯🇵 | 12/12 2pm AEDT 🇦🇺 Xoogler New Member Onboarding. RSVP.

💻 12/12 8am PST | 11am EST | 4pm GMT Net Zero Angels Demo Day for Xoogler-led Climate Startups. RSVP.

💻 12/12 12pm PST | 3pm EST Fireside Chat with Catherine Chin, Co-founder & CEO of Odyseek on “Perfecting Your Resume and Value Story” moderated by Maciej Szczepaniak. RSVP.

🇯🇵 12/19 7pm Japanese Xoogler TGIF (year end party) at Google Campus hosted by Kazuki Notsu. RSVP.

🇻🇳12/30 9pm Ho Chi Minh City Drinks. RSVP.

🇫🇷 1/23 6:30pm Paris Meetup. RSVP.

💻 Weekly startup mentorship hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP.

📈 Our community has 33K+ members. Let us know if you want to set up a community like Xoogler.

🌁 SF Bay Area members, are you interested in commercializing AI research? If so, be sure to join Mohit Lad (he turned his PhD into a $1B outcome to Cisco), Anna Patterson (ex-VP of Eng at Google, research PhD) and Joanne Chen (GP at Foundation Capital) in SF. RSVP to join this TGIF on October 10!   

💻 Shiva Rajaraman is sharing how to be a PM to GM on October 14.

🇸🇬 Investors, if you’re in Singapore on October 15, join us for Xoogler Demo Day to catch product demos from Caesar Sengupta (former VP for Google Pay & NBU) from Arta Finance, Julien Condamines from Novo AI, Swee Kiat Lim from Pebblely and other founders! RSVP to join us at Google’s APAC headquarters.

🇦🇺 Aussie members, don’t miss out on the October 9 Melbourne meetup and October 11 Sydney meetup!.

💻 Don’t miss out on hearing from Steve Vamos, former Xero CEO, Microsoft Australia’s CEO & Apple APAC’s MD as he shares from his book, “Through Shifts & Shocks” on October 29 at 6pm PST. RSVP to hear how his insights shaped how the Xoogler community is run.

🇰🇷 Seoul members, would you like to be or can you recommend a featured speaker for the October 26 meetup? Please let us know here. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an in-person or online meetup.

💰 More Xooglers are running venture capital funds. Email your ideal check size if you are interested in being connected to them.

🚀 Ankit Jain has organized feedback for Xooglers applying for Y Combinator from Xoogler YC alumni. Email him to get feedback on your application and prepare for your interview.

🌱 Did you work at Microsoft or Meta? Help build “Xoogler” for those communities.

OPPORTUNITIES

X Studio: We are announcing a 90 day program for startup founders to ideate, validate, and build a business. The program is stage agnostic. Whether you have an idea, have written an app and need help with GTM or anything in between we will partner with you and unblock to build a successful venture. You will be guided with successful startup founders, VCs and experts. To learn more sign-up here.

Expert Network: Xooglers are subject matter experts and widely sought after. If you are willing to spend time to help our members in their journey please sign-up here to learn more about the Expert Network marketplace. Whether it's Applied AI, Revenue Ops, Coaching or GTM all disciplines are welcome to apply. Once verified, you can elect to offer services for a fee or pro bono.

Venture Fellows: Xoogler Ventures is seeking 2 Venture Fellows for 2025 to help partners with deal flow, opportunity assessment portfolio management, marketing and more. This is great opportunity to learn about the world of Venture Capital. Background in Corp Dev or Strategy are strongly preferred. If interested, please apply here.

JOBS

🙌 A xoogler is now a fractional recruiter for the community! If you’re looking to hire xooglers, email to be connected and start hiring from the community!

🧳 Abel Mengistu, CEO/Co-Founder of FlutterFlow is hiring in the US 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, India 🇮🇳, Singapore 🇸🇬, Latin America & Remote 🌍. Review the openings and email talent@xoogler.co to be connected.

🧳 Are you interested in joining a Xoogler that was at Google 2000-2009? He’s looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer (Finetuning) and a Platform Software Engineer. Email talent@xoogler.co.

🧳 Please fill in this survey if you’re a fractional executive.

WATCH

Daniel Ladvocat Cintra shared how to pivot from a career in Google Sales & Partnerships to being an engineer, product leader and co-founder at startups. He’s now the Chief Product Officer of Envera and is hiring across the board in product, design and engineering.

Don’t miss out on watching Stefanie Lau’s moderated panel featuring Sarah Payne, Jerene Yang and Terry O’Connor on Women’s Personal Finances.

Veronique Lafargue moderated the Climate Founder Series, featuring Peter Light, CEO of Lumen Energy. In this interview, Peter discusses his journey from Google X to founding Lumen Energy.

James Green, founder of DQ Ventures shared how you can launch your startup journey while keeping your day job during the high-risk stage and get support! Apply early to increase your optionality and opportunities given the uncertainties in today’s economic climate.

EVENTS

All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event!

⛳️ 10/4 7pm Atlanta TGIF: Startups and TopGolf. RSVP.

🇦🇺 10/9 6pm Melbourne meetup. RSVP.

🌁 10/10 5pm TGIF and Commercializing AI Research Panel. Hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP.

🇦🇺 10/11 5:30pm Sydney meetup. RSVP.

💻 10/14 7pm PDT PM to GM Journey with Shiva Rajaraman. RSVP.

💻 10/15 9am PDT/12pm EDT/5pm GMT Climate Founders Series with Brendan Hermalyn, Founder and CEO of Thalo Labs. RSVP.

🇸🇬 10/15 4:30pm APAC Demo Day at Google Singapore. RSVP.

🇸🇬 10/16 6:30pm Drinks hosted at Monk’s Brew Club sponsored by SGN. RSVP.

🇮🇩 10/17 7pm Bali Drinks. RSVP.

🇬🇧 10/17 6:30pm London Drinks with Sal Mohammed. RSVP.

🇩🇪 10/17 6:15pm Munich Drinks with Raphael Labaca-Castro. RSVP.

💻 10/22 11am EDT 🇺🇸 | 4pm BST 🇬🇧 | 5pm CEST 🇪🇺 | 8:30pm IST 🇮🇳 Xoogler New Member Onboarding. RSVP.

🇮🇪 💻 10/22 7pm IST Ireland Virtual Meetup. RSVP.

🇪🇸 10/24 7pm Madrid Meetup with Dino Jugo. RSVP.

💻 10/24 9am PDT/12pm EDT Womxn@Xoogler.co Finance Panel #2. RSVP.

🇰🇷 10/26 1p KST Seoul Meetup with Soo Jung Han. RSVP.

🗽 10/26 8:30pm NYC Halloween Party. RSVP.

💻 10/29 9am PDT/12pm EDT/5pm GMT Climate Founders Series with Paul Lambert, CEO of Quilt. RSVP.

💻 10/29 6pm PDT Fireside chat with Steve Vamos, former Xero CEO, Microsoft Australia’s CEO & Apple APAC’s MD on “Through Shifts & Shocks” RSVP.

💻 11/1 11am EDT Net Zero Angels (an investment collective focused on early-stage climate tech startups) information session. RSVP.

🌁 ♻️ 11/6 6:45pm SF Climate Founders Dinner with Mark Grozen-Smith. RSVP & Sign up for the Global Climate Community.

💻 11/12 6pm PST Xooglers in Climate Monthly Introduction Call. RSVP.

🗽 11/16 3pm NYC Friendsgiving Party. RSVP.

🇸🇬 11/20 6:30pm Drinks hosted at Monk’s Brew Club sponsored by SGN. RSVP.

🇬🇧 11/25 6:30pm London Winter Party. RSVP.

🇸🇬 12/11 6:30pm Singapore Holiday Party. RSVP.

🇻🇳12/30 9pm Ho Chi Minh City Drinks. RSVP.

💻 Weekly startup mentorship hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP.

TALENT

Email talent@xoogler.co if you need help to source talent. Here are some opportunities, email to be connected.

• Tempo AI is hiring for a Founding ML engineer with computer vision expertise in the SF Bay Area 🇺🇸.

• Aviator is hiring for early/mid-level software engineers in Palo Alto 🇺🇸.

• Applied Intuition has 100+ job openings. You can view their CTO’s fireside chat with the community here. 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇰🇷 🇯🇵 🇸🇪

• Flutter Flow: Head of People Ops, Technical Program Manager, Technical Writer Software Engineer 🇺🇸 🇸🇬 🇮🇳 🇧🇷

• Gamma: Senior Backend Engineer, AI Engineer, Staff Frontend Engineer, Staff Product Designer in San Francisco 🇺🇸

• Key: Senior Engineer in Ahmedabad 🇮🇳, Growth Marketer 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇸🇬

• Fintech Stealth Startup in Dubai 🇦🇪 & Bangalore 🇮🇳 looking for an ex-consultant with 3-7 years of experience

📈 Our community has 33K+ members. Let us know if you want to set up a community like Xoogler. Sign up here if you’re looking for work and share your ideal job.

🌱 Did you work at Microsoft or Meta? Help build “Xoogler” for those communities.

📚 Eduardo Saverin is looking to support founders to make a bigger impact via a Founders Circle program. Apply here if you’re interested in being nominated. He recently shared his learnings from building Facebook and investing in 160 startups.

🚀 Xooglers are coming to Singapore 🇸🇬 for Token2049! Join in pickleball on 9/15 & meetups on 9/15, 9/17, 9/18, 9/19! Email your telegram to be added to the chat group.

LEARN

Don’t miss out on our programs to learn how to be a PM to GM (online), launch a startup before you quit your job (online), how to transition to engineering from sales (online) and hear from Xooglers at Notion, Figma, Glean, Applied Intuition, and formerly Databricks on the challenges of building AI products (San Mateo).

Catherine Lacavera, Xoogler’s Advisor alongside Qasar Younis wrote "What Did You Do At School Today?" and shared that she found the techniques of famous trial lawyers equally applicable to her most important job, that of a mother.

JOBS

🙌 A xoogler is now a fractional recruiter for the community! If you’re looking to hire xooglers, email to be connected and start hiring from the community!

🧳 Abel Mengistu, CEO/Co-Founder of FlutterFlow is hiring in the US 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, India 🇮🇳, Singapore 🇸🇬, Latin America & Remote 🌍. Review the openings and email talent@xoogler.co to be connected.

🧳 Are you interested in joining a Xoogler that was at Google 2000-2009? He’s looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer (Finetuning) and a Platform Software Engineer. Email talent@xoogler.co.

🧳 Please fill in this survey if you’re a fractional executive.

WATCH

Anne Dwane from Village Global shared insights on their Velocity Program. Be sure to apply by September 10 and email to get your application highlighted. Ankit Jain is still helping late applications get into Y Combinator’s Fall 2024 Batch. Email him for support.

EVENTS

All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event!

🇲🇾 9/9 12pm Kuala Lumpur meetup with Huiling Xie. RSVP.

🌁 9/10 5pm Mountain View Healthcare Panel at Fenwick & West. RSVP.

🌁 9/10 7:30pm San Francisco x-APMM (Xooglers and Googlers) Reunion. RSVP.

💻 9/12 9am PDT Climate Founders Series with Peter Light. RSVP.

🏄 9/12 6pm Orange County Meetup with Nicole Tsai. RSVP.

🇸🇬 9/15 4pm Meetup with Stanford Alumni Club during Token2049 organized by George Li. RSVP.

🇸🇬 9/17 4pm Token2049 Welcome Drinks sponsored by SGN. RSVP.

🇩🇪 9/17 7pm Hamburg Meetup with Till Dietrich. RSVP.

⛴ 9/17 6pm Seattle Meetup with Hadas Shahak Ben-Horin. RSVP.

🇸🇬 9/18 6:30pm Monthly drinks at Monk’s Brew Club sponsored by SGN. RSVP.

🗽 9/18 3pm SPC Commons Demo Day and Happy Hour. RSVP.

🏛️ 9/18 5pm Washington DC Real Estate Investor Meetup with Marsha Fils. RSVP.

🌺 9/18 5pm Women’s Meetup at Honolulu Tech Week with Rosalyn Mahashin. RSVP.

🇸🇬 9/19 5pm Fireside chat with FalconX’s Raghu Yarlagadda & Electric Capital’s Avichal Garg at Google. RSVP.

🇻🇳 9/20 7pm Hanoi Xooglers Meetup with Robert Huynh. RSVP.

🗽 9/21 2pm NYC Summer Rooftop BBQ. RSVP.

🇸🇬 💻 9/23 9am SGT Investors join us online & in-person in Singapore to hear about this Coffee Venture & Social Club investment opportunity featuring Monk’s Brew Club’s Alaap Tatwawadi. RSVP.

🗽 9/23 5:30pm NYC Real Estate Investor Meetup with Marsha Fils. RSVP.

🇮🇪 💻 9/24 7pm IST Ireland Virtual Meetup. RSVP.

🏙 9/24 4:30pm Chicago Meetup with Becky Thalmann. RSVP.

🗽 9/24 5:30pm NYC Tech Talk: SQL Optimization with ML and Gen AI. RSVP.

🏛️ 9/24 5:30pm Washington DC / DMV Happy Hour. RSVP.

🌁 9/24 6pm San Mateo Founders in AI Networking with Fluxon. RSVP.

💻 9/24 6pm PDT | 9am SGT Investors hear from a Xoogler founder in this fundraising Q&A. RSVP.

💻 9/26 12pm EDT Womxn@Xoogler.co Money Matters Series Talk. RSVP.

🌁 9/26 5:30pm San Mateo Panel and Networking Event: Hear from a panel of product and engineering leaders from Notion, Figma, Glean, Applied Intuition, and formerly Databricks sharing insights and discussing the challenges of building AI products. Networking to follow. RSVP.

⛳️ 9/27 7pm Atlanta Xooglers TGIF: Startups and TopGolf. RSVP.

🇦🇺 October Melbourne & Sydney meetups. RSVP.

🇫🇷 10/1 6:30pm Paris Meetup. RSVP.

🇵🇹 10/1 7pm Portugal (Lisbon) Xoogler Meetup. RSVP.

💻 10/1 9pm SGT Fireside chat with Daniel Cintra, learn how he pivoted from Google sales to engineering and product in startups. RSVP.

🌁 ♻️ 10/2 6:45pm SF Climate Dinner with Mark Grozen-Smith. RSVP & sign up for the Global Climate Community.

💻 10/2 🇬🇧 8am UK Time | 🇮🇳 12:30pm IST | 🇸🇬 3pm SGT Start a company before you quit your job. Q&A with DQ Ventures’s James Green. RSVP.

🇸🇬 10/9 12pm Singapore Founders Meetup at January Capital. RSVP.

🇸🇬 10/9 5pm Xoogler Demo Day at Google Singapore. RSVP.

🌁 10/10 5pm TGIF and AI Researcher Fireside Chat. Hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP.

💻 10/12 9am PDT/12pm EDT/5pm GMT Climate Founders Series with Brendan Hermalyn, Founder and CEO of Thalo Labs. RSVP.

💻 10/15 7pm PDT PM to GM Journey with Shiva Rajaraman. RSVP.

💻 10/22 11am EDT 🇺🇸 | | 4pm BST 🇬🇧 | 5pm CEST 🇪🇺 | 8:30pm IST 🇮🇳 Xoogler New Member Onboarding. RSVP.

🗽 10/26 8:30pm NYC Xooglers Halloween Party. RSVP.

💻 10/29 9am PDT/12pm EDT/5pm GMT Climate Founders Series with Paul Lambert, CEO of Quilt. RSVP.

🗽 11/16 3pm NYC Xooglers Friendsgiving Party. RSVP.

🇸🇬 12/11 6:30pm Singapore Holiday Party. RSVP.

💻 Weekly startup mentorship hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP.

TALENT

Email talent@xoogler.co if you need help to source talent. Here are some opportunities, email to be connected.

• Tempo AI is hiring for a Founding ML engineer with computer vision expertise in the SF Bay Area 🇺🇸.

• Aviator is hiring for early/mid-level software engineers in Palo Alto 🇺🇸.

• Applied Intuition has 100+ job openings. You can view their CTO’s fireside chat with the community here. 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇰🇷 🇯🇵 🇸🇪

• Flutter Flow: Head of People Ops, Technical Program Manager, Technical Writer Software Engineer 🇺🇸 🇸🇬 🇮🇳 🇧🇷

• Gamma: Senior Backend Engineer, AI Engineer, Staff Frontend Engineer in San Francisco 🇺🇸

• Key: Senior Engineering in Ahmedabad 🇮🇳, Growth Marketer 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇸🇬, Growth marketer in Palo Alto 🇺🇸

• Fintech Stealth Startup in Dubai 🇦🇪 & Bangalore 🇮🇳 looking for an ex-consultant with 3-7 years of experience

You can read about her impact on Sundar Pichai, Sheryl Sandberg, Jonathan Rosenberg, Marissa Mayer, Alan Eustace, Keval Desai, Hunter Walk, Shishir Mehrotra, Francoise Brougher, Wesley Chan, Bill Ready, Allan Thygesen, Yunkai Zhou, Punit Singh Soni, Stephanie Tilenius, Aparna Chennapragada and Lexi Reese.

Keval Desai shared: “The reason why Google today is the company that touches billions of people's lives daily and does that with empathy, humanity and a fundamental belief that doing good is the primary north star is because of Susan. The same founders, the same vision and the same leadership team could have produced an entirely different type of company if it were not for Susan's unreal abilities as a leader who always knew what was the right thing to do.”

Please share your thoughts, memories and impact that Susan had on your time at Google here. We will deliver these messages to Susan’s family.

📈 Our community has 33,731 members. Let us know if you want to set up a community like Xoogler. Sign up here if you’re looking for work and share your ideal job.

🧳 Please fill in this survey if you’re a fractional executive.

🚀 💻 8/16 Join Google Corp Dev’s Frank Lin for the fireside chat with EQL’s CEO/Co-Founder Andrew Lipp.

♀️💰 The organizers for Xoogler Women is looking for Xoogler women who want to talk openly about a traditionally taboo topic money. Are you passionate about money as a founder, CFO, solopreneur? Or are you especially savvy with building personal wealth and independence? We're looking for experts within the community to share their money wins and insights with us as we craft these events. Fill out this form to express interest.

📚 Parents, let your kids' school or PTA know about Super Teacher for Schools. Every child can now have access to unlimited private tutoring, with Super Teacher. Email Tim Novikoff.

🧳 Abel Mengistu, CEO/Co-Founder of FlutterFlow is hiring in the US 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, India 🇮🇳, Singapore 🇸🇬, Latin America & Remote 🌍. Review the openings and email talent@xoogler.co to be connected and reach out to get assistance to hire Xooglers!

CONNECT

• Would you play a game like this? Email Derrick Xin (ex-Google Research) with feedback. He’s making a game 🎮 where LLMs power spell and world generation

• Are you interested in joining a Xoogler that was at Google 2000-2009? He’s looking for a Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineer (Finetuning) and a Platform Software Engineer. Email talent@xoogler.co.

• Reach out if you have a 2-4 person team and want to rent a space with fellow Xooglers in Palo Alto.

• 🧳 Founders and CEOs - are you interested in a one-stop-shop consultancy for transformation? Struggling to scale, hit profitability, build high-performing teams, or simply putting some wins on the board? Anna Buber (Google 2011-2020) has been working with Founders, CEOs, and Boards to transform winning businesses into global unicorns, and we're looking to help our community founders and executives win. Email Chris to learn more.

EVENTS

All Xooglers/Googlers are welcome to organize community events. Review our playbook if you’re interested in organizing an event!

🇫🇷 8/12 Meetup after the Paris Olympics with Paul Huynh. RSVP.

🌁 ♻️ 8/13 6:45pm SF Climate Dinner with Mark Grozen-Smith. RSVP & Sign up for the Global Climate Community.

🇸🇬 8/14 6:30pm Augie Ilag is sharing what needs to be in a startup pitch from his experience evaluating startups from Sequoia Capital and CMT Digital. Check out his prior presentation to the Xoogler community here. RSVP

🇬🇧 8/15 6:30pm London Drinks with Sal Mohammed. RSVP.

💻 🇦🇺 8/16 12pm AEST Fireside Chat with Andrew Lipp, CEO/Co-Founder of EQL moderated by Google Corp Dev’s Frank Lin. RSVP.

🇸🇬 8/21 6:30pm Drinks hosted at Monk’s Brew Club sponsored by SGN. RSVP.

🏄 8/21 6pm LA Meetup (Culver City) with Howard Park. RSVP.

🌁 ♻️ 8/21 6:30pm SF Climate Founders Dinner with Mark Grozen-Smith, sponsored by JPMC. RSVP & Sign up for the Global Climate Community.

🇩🇰 8/22 5:30pm Copenhagen Wine Tasting with Jonas Emiliussen and Peter Holt Theisen. RSVP.

💻 8/27 6pm PDT Velocity program for startups (deadline is 9/10) with Village Global’s Anne Dwane. RSVP.

🇸🇬 8/29 5pm Join the Singapore community for Happy Hour at Morton’s. RSVP.

💻 8/28 5pm PDT Climate Founders Series with Cynthia Wu. RSVP.

💻 8/29 12pm PDT EdTech Monthly Virtual Meetup. RSVP.

💻 8/29 7pm PDT 🇺🇸 | 8/30 7:30am IST 🇮🇳 | 8/30 10am SGT 🇸🇬 | 8/30 11am JST 🇯🇵 | 8/30 12pm AEST 🇦🇺 Xoogler New Member Onboarding. RSVP.

🌁 9/10 5pm Mountain View Healthcare Panel at Fenwick. RSVP.

🏄 9/12 6pm Orange County Meetup with Nicole Tsai. RSVP.

🏙 9/24 4:30pm Chicago Meetup with Becky Thalmann. RSVP.

🌁 10/10 5pm Palo Alto TGIF and AI Researcher Fireside Chat. Join us for an exclusive TGIF and fireside chat with a world-wide well-known AI researcher (Trevor Darrel). Hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP.

💻 Weekly startup mentorship hosted by Kazuki Notsu & Yigit Ihlamur. RSVP.

TALENT

Email talent@xoogler.co if you need help to source talent. Here are some opportunities, email to be connected.

• Applied Intuition has 100+ job openings. You can view their CTO’s fireside chat with the community here. 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇰🇷 🇯🇵 🇸🇪

• Flutter Flow: Head of People Ops, Technical Program Manager, Technical Writer Software Engineer 🇺🇸 🇸🇬 🇮🇳 🇧🇷

• Gamma: Senior Backend Engineer, AI Engineer, Staff Frontend Engineer in San Francisco 🇺🇸

• Key: Senior Engineering in Ahmedabad 🇮🇳, Growth Marketer 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇸🇬, Growth marketer in Palo Alto 🇺🇸 and a recruiter that can work US hours 🌎

• Fintech Stealth Startup in Dubai 🇦🇪 & Bangalore 🇮🇳 looking for an ex-consultant with 3-7 years of experience