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Founders You Should Know
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Founders You Should Know
@foundersysk
Meet 10 breakout founders at our IRL showcase on May 20th in SF
00:00- you prob know FYSK as the premier startup/talent showcase/startup-party in SF but did you also know we’re an investment platform/community? we write $100k checks into the series A rounds of companies that are scaling revenue and engineering teams. we grow together
- we know this is severely underpriced today but when we invest in founders we provide a lot more help in hiring great engineers than just featuring at the showcase the core of the help is a "bespoke matching" process to connect talent from our community to founders so far this
- In the spirit of @nikunj's sentiment, here's what X, not Linkedin, is saying about the startups you'll get to meet at our October 15th Founders You Should Know 🧵🧵It's incredible how obsolete LinkedIn has become for me.. It just lives for being a "profile" of my professional journey and for Claude to look up someone's background. But, all the work happens here on X (yes!), over text and emails.
- FYSK is a community first venture capital fund: • we showcase the best companies, invested or not • our community created a small venture fund • top Silicon Valley engineers, eager to join startups, are our fund's LPs • we invest $100k in companies at Series A, when revenue
- Truly, @foundersysk is my favorite evening of the whole month. That the startup energy in SF is tangible -- and magical. A huge congrats and thank you to this month's founders for inspiring us all with your visions for the future ✨ @ankrgyl @thejessezhang @TaraViswanathan
- The "n+1 effect" -- if you're a high talent engineer, your next job will probably come from a connection closer than you think
- even if you didn't go to MIT... but you'll meet a lot of MITers here, too 🤝Being at MIT is kinda like insider trading because you can observe where everyone goes to work and then invest in those companies
- Juan Lozano was an ML engineer. Now he owns real mines & is redefining US infra @MarianaMinerals Hear his story at our private dinner for engineers exploring new opportunities next week, moderated by the one and only @dksf Request to join: luma.com/k360kc0o
- 🎶🪅 we had a "special guest" perform at intermission
- at FYSK we feature *Founders* could be CEOs, CTOs, COOs, VPs, etc, but they are all *Founders* the best engineering talent is there to look the founders in the eyes, shake their hands, and get all their questions answered
- the best talent isn't always super public about the fact that they're looking for a new role you can DM us or apply to a showcase you also get plausible deniability at the showcase since some people come just to browse 😉
