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Revelo's LatAm talent network sees strong demand from US companies, thanks to AI | TechCrunch
The company saw a surge of interest during Covid-19, now it's seeing strong demand for another reason: training LLMs. (2025)
How to Tell an Employee They’re Not Ready for a Promotion
Discussing a promotion with an employee when you’re not ready to give them one is a delicate balancing act, but it’s also a golden opportunity. It’... (2023)
“Scaling People” is a textbook piece of management writing
Claire Hughes Johnson has gone long on tactics and pragmatism, short on guff | Business. “Scaling people” is written by Claire Hughes Johnson, a te... (2023)
Meeting Cofounders: 27 places to find them
Hoping to meet your cofounder? As a followup to my post about getting a technical cofounder, I thought I'd offer a near-exhaustive list of places w... (2023)
My 5-step blueprint for finding the ideal cofounder
Having founded multiple startups across various industries, I firmly believe having the right cofounder(s) is the most significant determinant of s... (2023)
Factorial adds $120M and doubles valuation to $1B to build enterprise-quality HR for SMBs • TechCrunch
Big money for an HR startup targeting the little guys (2022)
The Complete Guide to Acquihires | a16z Future
Advice from a16z experts on figuring out whether an acquihire makes sense and, if so, how to successfully pull it off — from due diligence to deal ... (2022)
Founders Equity - Best Practices for Startup Founder Equity
By following these startup equity best practices, founders and co-founders will establish a solid foundation to have a successful startup (2017)
Online whiteboarding platform Miro raises $400M to power the future of work | VentureBeat
Miro, a visual collaboration platform used by companies like Dell, Cisco, and Deloitte, has raised $400 million at a $17.5 billion valuation. (2022)
Corporate learning platform 360Learning raises $200 million – TechCrunch
360Learning has raised a $200 million funding round from Sumeru, SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 and Silver Lake Waterman. And this time, the name of the ... (2021)
Medley, the coaching platform for personal and professional development, gets $3.7M led by a16z
Medley, the group coaching platform that focuses on both personal and professional development, announced the close of a $3.7 million seed round le... (2021)
How to expand internationally: Genially Case Study
As part of our work on international expansion, we hosted a portfolio session featuring conversations with Patricia Matey, VP International Strateg... (2021)
Silicon Valley’s ‘Mission Protocol’ Revolution Is Beginning to Attain Critical Mass – Quillette
In Silicon Valley, 17 years later, another kind of revolution is taking shape. A handful of founders and CEOs—Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, Jason Fr... (2021)
Investing in Pyn - Andreessen Horowitz
Our investment in Pyn was announced earlier today. Joris and Jon are building a key aspect of enabling a future of work that we all want to be a pa... (2021)
Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics—and failing | The Economist
As other firms become more political, some Silicon Valley companies are heading in the opposite direction | United States (2021)
Changes at Basecamp
At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product. It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves. We aren't stuck w... (2021)
How Brex used Retool to scale 10x in three years
Brex has a killer philosophy of internal tools. Find out how Retool, on top of this strong foundation, has helped Engineering Manager Derek Stavis ... (2020)
Remote hiring startup Deel raises $156M at a $1.25B valuation after 20x growth in 2020 – TechCrunch
Many of the world’s organizations shifted to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But even as more people are vaccinated and offices are plann... (2021)
Oracle Introduces Employee Experience Platform: War For Employee Journeys Gets Hotter – JOSH BERSIN
Oracle announces Journeys, its major entry into the Employee Experience Platform market and direct competitor with ServiceNow. (2021)
Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform – TechCrunch
Last October as Slack was preparing for its virtual Frontiers conference, the company began thinking about different ways people could communicate ... (2021)
Stack Overflow adds a free tier to its fast-growing Teams service – TechCrunch
Stack Overflow is the default Q&A site for programmers (though the overall Stack Exchange network goes well beyond helping you answer your basic PH... (2021)
Investing in Wrapbook - Andreessen Horowitz
Project-based workers are an exploding population: 59 million Americans performed freelance work in 2020, representing 22% year-over-year growth an... (2021)
The HubSpot Culture Code: Creating a Company We Love
The official HubSpot Culture Code slide deck. Take an inside look at HubSpot, the people behind it, and what makes us tick. (2021)
How Do Stock Options and RSUs Differ?
The increasing use of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) has led to a good deal of confusion about their use and how similar they are to stock options. (2014)
Building a Great Startup Board: Pt 1
Too often, the conventional wisdom imparted to entrepreneurs is to treat board meetings as a necessary evil, part of the price you pay for raising ... (2021)
Inside Figma: the product design team’s process
A look at the meetings, rituals, and exercises our product design team relies on to stay connected and efficient. (2020)
Boardable’s board management software for nonprofits raises $8 million
Indianapolis-based Boardable, a provider of board management software tools for nonprofits, has raised $8 million in a new round of financing, the ... (2020)
Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad
A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review VC's have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employ... (2019)
Entrepreneurship and Loneliness
It’s lonely at the top. It’s even lonelier to be an entrepreneur. But you don’t have to go through this struggle alone. Reid Hoffman on why it’s so... (2020)
Pluralsight to be Acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $3.5 Billion
Vista to acquire all outstanding shares of Pluralsight for $20.26 per share in cash (2020)
How Airbnb’s CEO uses an Unconventional Management Approach to Drive the $85 Billion Brand
Brian Chesky is the founder and CEO of the roughly $85 billion home-sharing business Airbnb. The company has been around for nearly 20 years and ha... (2024)
Notion for PRODUCT MANAGEMENT | How I use Notion as a PM
HEY. Yes. Notion is the key to planning new software. I assure you it's better than confluence, better than asana, better than any other planning t... (2021)
Inside Microsoft’s big bet on open design
The Verge Published on Apr 29, 2019 Microsoft is completely changing the company's approach to design. This huge shift will impact how all their ... (2019)
"Zombie Startups" by Mathias Pastor
Startupfood Published on Jan 7, 2019 At The Family, we believe that anyone can become a great entrepreneur. DESCRIPTION The end of a year i... (2019)
The Patagonia story: Bringing trends to life
Deloitte US Published on Jun 4, 2018 Experience how leading companies are embracing the Trends firsthand. Company story videos bring the Trends... (2018)
Learning In The Flow Of Work - Keynote Presentation - Josh Bersin 2018
Josh Bersin Published on Nov 4, 2018 This presentation walks through the concepts and details of Learning in the Flow of Work, delivered at Linke... (2018)
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice
YC Partner Jared Friedman joins founders -- Lillian Chou (COO, Second Measure) -- Diana Hu (CTO, Escher Reality), Calvin French-Owen (CTO, Segm... (2018)
Running Your Company - by Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO, Founder) -- YC Startup School
Y Combinator Published on Oct 3, 2018 YC Partner Adora Cheung, along with Patrick Collison, the founder of well known YC alumnus Stripe, discuss ... (2018)
Building an Engineering Team YC Startup School - by Ammon Bartram and Harj Taggar
Former YC Partner and founder of TripleByte Harj Taggar, along with his cofounder Ammon Bartram discuss a topic startups often struggle with most: ... (2018)
How to Build and Manage Teams - CS183F | Stanford University | Vinod Khosla
Stanford University: Published on May 31, 2017, Anu Hariharan, Partner at YC Continuity, sits down with Vinod Khosla, Founder of Khosla Ventures an... (2017)
Cultural Breadth, Embeddedness, and Creativity - Google NotebookLM
This paper proposes that an individual's creativity is influenced by their adoption of their social group's culture. Creativity requires both novel... (2025)
#253 — Corporate Courage - Making Sense with Sam Harris | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Making Sense with Sam Harris on Spotify. In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Jason Fried about the r... (2021)
Podcast: Hired by an algorithm | MIT Technology Review
If you’ve applied for a job lately, it’s all but guaranteed that your application was reviewed by software—in most cases, before a human ever laid ... (2021)
Companies & Culture: What You Do Is Who You Are - a16z Podcast
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. This podcast -- which was recorded at the Computer History Museum in a live event, before the ... (2021)
20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling - The Twenty Minute VC
Listen to this episode from The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch on Spotify. Sebastian Siemiatkowski is the Founder... (2021)
Amazon Narratives: Memos, Working Backwards from Release, More - a16z Podcast
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. When you hear stories about Amazon's "invention machine" -- which led to a company with not ju... (2021)
On Fear and Leadership: Product to Sales CTOs & CEOs - Andreessen Horowitz | Podcast
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. There's a few ontologies for describing the phases leaders -- and their startups ... (2020)
Quora - Remote First
Greylock general partner David Thacker sat down with Quora CEO and co-founder Adam D'Angelo to discuss his decision to make the company a remote-fi... (2020)
a16z Podcast: The Stories and Code of Culture Change
How do you build, set, shape, fix, change, culture? Sharing practical advice while drawing on examples of culture as code from a thousand years ago... (2019)
The Founder Dating Playbook – Here’s the Process I Used to Find My Co-Founder - First Round
Looking for startup ideas and trying to find a co-founder? Use this founder dating process and ask these 50 questions. (2019)
Finding Success by Staying Optimistic with Ketan Anjaria of HireClub - The Indie Hackers Podcast
Ketan Anjaria's (@kidbombay) path to success was paved with hardship. He was flying high in the 90s dot-com boom, until he lost his job in the cras... (2019)
IndieHackers podcast - with Lynne Tye of Key Values
How to Build a Life You Love by Quitting Everything Else with Lynne Tye of Key Values After spending years pursuing a career in science, Lynne T... (2019)
YC podcast - Hiring Engineers with Ammon Bartram – Y Combinator
Ammon Bartram is the cofounder of Triplebyte (YC S15) and Socialcam (YC W12). Triplebyte connects software engineers with companies that are hiring. (2018)
How Stripe's COO approaches company building
In this episode of Resources for Humans, Jack sits down with Stripe’s Chief Operating Officer, Claire Hughes Johnson, who spent over a decade at Go... (2018)
Audio Of The Week: Skin In The Game – AVC
I have been listening to Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s new book, Skin In The Game, in audiobook form while driving around LA this past week. I’ve always ... (2018)
a16z Podcast: How Founders Hire a VP of Product – Andreessen Horowitz
Hiring a VP of Product — especially as the founder of the company — can almost feel like handing over your baby to someone else to hold, observes a... (2017)
Scaling People
From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most important resource it has: its people. Having worked... (2023)
The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way... (2023)
Radical Candor, by Kim Scott
* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller multiple years running * Translated into 20 languages, with more than half a million copies sol... (2023)
Founders at Work, by Jessica Livingston, co-founder of Y Combinator
Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' ... (2023)
#GiveFirst
In #GiveFirst, Brad Feld advises entrepreneurs to give before they get. #GiveFirst is essentially the new motto of Techstars, a mentorship-driven s... (2023)
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework, are back with a manifesto to combat all your modern ... (2021)
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar
Working Backwards book. Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's appr... (2021)
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes, director of UX Design at Google
Mismatch book. Read 20 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work f... (2019)
Deel | Global Payroll, Compliance & HR Solutions | HRIS
Hire, pay, and manage teams in 150+ countries with Deel. Run global payroll, ensure compliance, and streamline HR operations—all on one powerful pl... (2025)
HR software for startups | Rippling
Rippling’s HR software for startups lets you offload critical admin work for payroll, benefits, compliance, IT, and finance, helping your startup g... (2025)
Pilot.co - Hire Anywhere | Global payroll, benefits & compliance - pay contractors and employees worldwide
Easily onboard and pay contractors and employees worldwide, in one platform. Pilot is your all-in-one payroll and HR solution for your global team.... (2023)
GreenLight.ai - Simply Manage & Pay Your Extended Workforce.
GreenLight is the world's first AI-powered worker classification, management and payroll platform. We are the API-layer powering the Future of Work. (2021)
Tuple: The best pair programming app on macOS
Low latency, low CPU usage, no annoying UI chrome. Because programmers deserve better than a generic screen sharing tool. (2021)
Figma - Design, prototype, and feedback
Build better products as a team. Design, prototype, and gather feedback all in one place with Figma. (2021)
Miro - Online Visual Collaboration Platform for Teamwork
Scalable, secure, cross-device and enterprise-ready team collaboration whiteboard for distributed teams. Join 15M+ users from around the world. (2021)
Toggl - Simple time tracking. Powerful reporting.
Always getting distracted? Use Toggl as your productivity tool. A simple time tracker with powerful reports and it works across all your devices. ... (2020)
Flock - messaging, communication
Flock, the best team communication app and online collaboration platform, comes with team messaging, project management and other great features t... (2020)
Nomad List — Best Places to Live and Work Remotely for a Digital Nomad
The best places to live and work remotely for a Digital Nomad, based on cost of living, internet speed, weather and other metrics. For startups tha... (2020)
Degreed - The Lifelong Learning Platform
Degreed is a lifelong learning platform that individuals and organizations use to discover learning content, build skills, and certify their expert... (2020)
Elpha: where women in tech talk candidly online
Elpha is where women in tech talk candidly online. We're a private community where members come for personal and professional development, to start... (2020)
Milanote - the tool for organizing creative projects
Organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. (2020)
Trainual - Training Manual For Growing Businesses
Trainual is the easiest way to train your team and keep things running smooth as you scale. The most efficient way to onboard employees, automate ... (2019)
Find engineering teams that share your values | Key Values
Engineering teams describe their culture and how their values translate into daily practices. (2019)
Harvard ManageMentor Spark
Harvard ManageMentor Spark from Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning accelerates leadership team development with personalized learning. ... (2019)
AI Transformation Playbook How to lead your company into the AI era - Landing AI
AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology is now poised to transform every industry, just as electricity did 100 years ago. Between now and 2030, it ... (2018)
Social Impact Movement – Social Impact Movement
Social Impact Movement improves people & social causes connection by curating, educating, and providing easy access to social-related engagement op... (2018)
PayScale - Salary Comparison, Salary Survey, Search Wages
Research and compare average salaries. Free October 2018 salary information matched to your exact job profile. Find out what you are worth. (2018)
Founders Nation
Find or Become a Start-up Co-Founder (2018)
CoFoundersLab: World's Largest Network of Entrepreneurs
Join 400,000 Entrepreneurs Changemakers & Disruptors Free access to the largest Cofounder and Entrepreneurial community on the planet! (2018)
How To Hire | Vettery
A comprehensive guide to the recruiting process from start to finish. With insight from thousands of hiring managers and candidates, How to Hire pr... (2018)