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Why The Gender Pay Gap Gets Worse—Not Better—For Senior Engineers
A study of how salary expectations change among women and men engineers as their careers progress.
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Practical advice for finding startup work, hiring exceptional teams, and building companies that last.
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Mattermark Founder on Being Self-Taught in Silicon Valley
Danielle Morrill is a partner at XFactor Ventures, co-founder of Mattermark, first employee at Twilio, and self-taught everything. And we mean everything. Here are her secrets to teach yourself anything.
Careers
Liquidation Preference: Your Equity Could Be Worth Millions—Or Nothing
Liquidation preference is a simple, but often misunderstood, concept that can control how much your equity is worth. It can be the difference between a life-changing windfall, and a modest payout.
Leadership
Surviving Scale: 4 Hiring Lessons From Instacart, Affirm, And Roblox
But how do you successfully sell your vision? And harder yet: How can you compete with big-tech offers? The key is getting candidates to connect with your product.
Careers
How To Tell If You're Joining A Rocketship
Joining a startup is a high-risk, high-reward decision. The better you are at evaluating which companies are rocketships and which companies are duds, the more likely you are to succeed. This guide will teach you how.
Leadership
How Well-Meaning Startups Destroy Employee Trust
The competitive advantages of an employer brand are clear—but there's a right way and a wrong way to build them. Unfortunately, many startups are going about things the wrong way, and damaging their reputation as a result.
What Makes a Good Head of Talent—Beyond "People Skills"
Your head of talent will affect every future hire your startup makes. You can't afford to get this one wrong. To help, we've put together a profile of the ideal head of talent by analyzing data from our 8 million AngelList users.
How to Hire After Raising Your Seed Round
Raising a seed round is a huge accomplishment—but it's also a big responsibility. The pressure is now on for you to grow quickly, and that means learning how to build a real hiring process.
Leadership
How Keith Rabois Builds Billion-Dollar Businesses: Radical Simplicity
Keith Rabois has built more billion dollar businesses than almost anyone else alive. We asked what philosophy guided him to build PayPal, Opendoor, and Square—and his response was surprisingly simple.
Hiring
How To Hire Your First 10 Employees
In your early stages, you typically don't have the funding, the traction, or the brand to attract top talent—but that doesn't make it impossible. In this guide, we're going to show you how you can hire incredible people as your first ten employees.
How to Hire World-Class Engineers
Hiring quality engineers is daunting. We interviewed 1,000+ startups to design the optimal funnel for hiring world-class engineers—regardless of your space or growth stage.
Careers
How To Get A Job At A Crypto Startup
Everything you need to know to land your dream job at a startup in one of the fastest growing markets—cryptocurrency.
Careers
Why Join A Company That’s Scaling Up
Advice on scaling from Y Combinator's president Sam Altman for founders and employees at high growth companies. What to keep in mind when it’s time to hire and scale up the team.
Midstage Startups Are Your Best First Job In Tech
A guest post by Hunter Walk, including 17 of the best companies to join for new grads
How Modern Health has used Wellfound to 3X their team
When the pandemic hit, the need for mental health support at companies grew, throwing Modern Health into a hyper-growth phase. The team then turned to Wellfound to help with tripling their technical talent within one year.