π Why is the NYC startup scene taking off?
Weβre off next week for Thanksgiving, but wanted to send a big thank you to our Accelerated community for reading, commenting, and sharing this year! We love writing the newsletter and really appreciate all of you. πͺ Musk goes hardcore. Hundreds of Twitter employees reportedly resigned after CEO Elon Musk asked them to opt-in to an βextremely hardcoreβ new culture. Employees were given until Thursday afternoon to decide, and those who chose to leave will receive three months of severance pay. The move comes after half of the companyβs 7,500 employees were laid off in an effort to cut costs. Musk tweeted that the βbest peopleβ are staying with Twitter, and platform usage has hit new highs. βοΈ Elizabeth Holmes sentencing. The current chapter of the Theranos story came to an end, as Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison and a $400 fine, with restitution to be decided later. Holmes was convicted in January on four charges of defrauding investors, which carried a maximum penalty of 20 years as well as restitution. Prosecutors had asked for a 15 year sentence and $800M payment. Former Theranos COO Sunny Balwani will be sentenced in December. ποΈ Ticketmaster under fire. Finally, a reason to share a Taylor Swift update! This week, Swift released pre-sale tickets for her Eras tour - and crashed the Ticketmaster site. While 2M fans eventually got tickets, most waited hours to get through, and the company canceled the general sale due to βinsufficient inventory.β Swift released a statement expressing her disappointment, and the Justice Department is opening an investigation into Ticketmasterβs potential monopoly influence in live events. To all the startups disrupting ticketing, we see you π πΈ FTX unravels. If you missed last week, crypto exchange FTX declared bankruptcy after the company βborrowedβ customer assets to cover losses on its trading arm, resulting in a liquidity crunch. This week, former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried published a tweetstorm explaining what he thinks went wrong. Meanwhile - the companyβs new CEO, John Ray (who previously oversaw the Enron bankruptcy) released his first statement: βNever in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information.β π¬ what weβre following πIf I were looking to join a high-growth startup or tech company right now, I'd come to NYC.
I spend hours every week combing through job postings, and there's an insanely high volume of quality roles here right now.
This is particularly true if you want to work in-office. Weβve been back in California for a week, and weβve been reflecting on our time in New York this fall. As context: we spent nearly ten years in the Bay Area before deciding to switch it up. We moved to Santa Monica for the summer, and then spent a few months in Manhattan - so weβve experienced three startup ecosystems this year! NYC probably surprised us the most. We had visited New York a few times each year before COVID, and found the tech scene to be interesting but early. Compared to the Bay Area, there were far fewer startups and many were concentrated in fintech or healthtech (which are both great categories). When we returned this fall, we found that the ecosystem had matured considerably. There were significantly more founders, a much stronger sense of community, and a proliferation of startups across a broader range of categories (including social apps, consumer marketplaces, vertical SaaS, and prosumer tools). The startup scene is vibrant and buzzing with energy - itβs palpable. We spent some time talking with other investors and founders about what changed in NYC over the past few years, and distilled a few learnings on what can make an ecosystem βtake off.β Hereβs what we found:
jobs πNash - Chief of Staff (Remote) Headline - Investor (Remote) Faire - Product Strategy & Analytics Associate, Strategy Associate (Remote) Silk and Sonder - Chief of Staff to the CEO* (SF, Remote) Local Kitchens - Strategy & Ops, Market Launch (SF) Amazon Alexa Fund - Principal* (SF) Samsung Next - Venture Ops Associate (Mountain View) Temasek - Associate / Senior Associate (NYC) Pinwheel - Business Operations & Finance* (NYC) Flatiron Health - Business Operations Associate (NYC) *Expects 3+ years of experience. internships πSusa Ventures - Summer Fellows Program (Remote, Various) Loop - RevOps Intern (Remote) Robinhood - Data Science Intern (Remote) Bain - Summer Venture Ecosystem Associate (SF) Zoox - Strategy Associate Intern (Foster City) Google X - PM Intern (Mountain View) Nuro - MBA New Product Studio GM Intern (Mountain View) Zoom - Global Payments Intern (San Jose) GoodRx - Data Science Intern (Santa Monica) Blizzard - MBA Analytics & Tech Strategy Intern (Santa Monica) Clay - TikTok Creator Intern (NYC, Remote) Lucra Sports - Winter Business Analytics Intern (NYC, Remote) puppy of the week πΆMeet Gabi, a four-year-old Miniature Schnauzer who lives in Copenhagen. He enjoys going to the beach, eating chicken nuggets, and bringing joy to everyone. Follow him on instagram @gabi_the_minischnauzer! All views are our own. None of the above should be taken as investment advice. See this page for important information. |
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π Chaos reigns on the Internet
Sunday, November 13, 2022
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π A tough week for tech
Sunday, November 6, 2022
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π Musk takes the reins at Twitter
Sunday, October 30, 2022
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π Is TikTok tracking users?
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Plus, a new model in the fertility space! β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β
π TikTok goes all-in on commerce
Sunday, October 16, 2022
Plus, the rise of the VTuber! β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β β
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