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Our latest spotlight with Miter is now live ✨ We cover: • revolutionizing an “unsexy” space • building a culture of curiosity and understanding • focusing on great written communication and more Read the full post here: nextplayso.substack.com/p/a-spotlight-…

Been subscribed to next play for a few months now, and it is the best newsletter for career growth, finding your next role and discovering interesting startups. Highly recommended!

I put together a list of 30 startups who've each raised $50-100M in the past few weeks and are hiring:

Understanding the 37 most valuable private startups In this essay, we worked with Palle Broe to take a closer look at private startup valuations: What are revenue multiples? What's happening in the ecosystem? How does this impact my job-search? read here: nextplayso.substack.com/p/valuations-a…

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got my job thanks to Ben Lang’s startup hiring list. super grateful for it. if you're job hunting, start there. fire off those cold emails and keep grinding till you land the one. it works.

On Building a Founding Team We partnered with Mercury to produce a guide with tactical advice for founders and candidates access here: nextplayso.substack.com/p/on-building-…

Your founding team sets the tone for everything. We partnered with next play to help founders get this right ⤵️

I put together a list of the fastest growing teams (based on hiring rate) backed by top tier funds:

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Our latest spotlight with Warp is now live ✨ We cover: • What it takes to be a product-centric company • ⁠How their culture supports autonomy and hustle • ⁠What management is like at a fast-growing startup and more Read the full post here: nextplayso.substack.com/p/how-a-small-…

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Our latest spotlight with Meanwhile is now live ✨ Read here: nextplayso.substack.com/p/mixing-domai…

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Join a startup if you want to have a great time at work

I put together a list of 28 startups who've each raised $50-100M recently and are hiring:

Know a few former founders looking to join startups (technical, product, ops) Which companies are specifically hiring former founders?

Breaking into tech is hard. This is what I'd do today: • get good at writing cold emails • start a niche Substack • build stuff in public, learn distribution • follow the "in" crowd on X, get good at cold DMs • once one of these work well, focus, drop the rest, repeat

I collected a list of small teams (<10 people) backed by top-tier funds who are all hiring: