#125: Erik Torenberg - What Is Venture Capital? & How It Helps Job Seekers
Breaking Into Startups13 Elo 2020

#125: Erik Torenberg - What Is Venture Capital? & How It Helps Job Seekers

Not only a true believer in the power of networking, Erik Torenberg definitely walks the talk. Erik is big on community building and networking. He is known for organizing huge events as well as intimate meetups called On Deck, where they allow people to get to know each other on a personal level instead of a professional level. Back in Michigan, Erik started his career by creating rapt.fm, which led him to go to 500 Startups, that also led him to become the first employee of Product Hunt. Later on, he started the Product Hunt Podcast. He then ventured into investing, having seeded notable companies including Omni, Metaverse, Bot.me, and Tribe.pm, to name a few. In 2017, he launched a $100-million fund called Village Global, built around the concept of networking embedded in their company’s DNA. He has curated a group of people including some of the world's greatest in technology - Amazon's Jeff Bezos, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, Marissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg - to believe in him. How did he do that? Let’s find out! Recently, he also launched another podcast called Venture Stories Podcast by Village Global. Another one of Erik’s passion project is The Rise Awards, an awards series and community celebrating top talents across all positions.

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#126: Marcelo Claure - Why Softbank Invested in Career Karma

#126: Marcelo Claure - Why Softbank Invested in Career Karma

Marcelo Claure is a Bolivian tech entrepreneur who founded Brightstar which was later sold to Sprint after they reached $10 billion in revenue, becoming the largest Hispanic-owned business in US histo...

31 Maalis 202139min

#124: Jake Schwartz - CEO of General Assembly on COVID-19 Response

#124: Jake Schwartz - CEO of General Assembly on COVID-19 Response

Jake Schwartz is the co-founder and chief executive officer of General Assembly, a global company advancing the future of work. Jake leads GA's growth, creating sustainable talent pipelines for busine...

27 Heinä 20201h 2min

#123: Dan Friedman - COVID-19 Response from the Co-Founder of Thinkful

#123: Dan Friedman - COVID-19 Response from the Co-Founder of Thinkful

Dan Friedman is the Co-Founder of Thinkful, a coding bootcamp that provides online courses Software Engineering, Design and Data Science courses. Dropping out of Yale, Dan is proof that you don't need...

21 Huhti 202050min

#122: Vaibhav Sahgal - Head of Growth at Reddit - How to be a Growth Product Leader

#122: Vaibhav Sahgal - Head of Growth at Reddit - How to be a Growth Product Leader

Vaibhav Sahgal is the Head of Growth at Reddit, Inc. which has 500 million unique users around the world. Prior to this, he worked at Zynga for 8 years as a product manager. He led teams building game...

4 Maalis 202053min

#121: Kesha Lake - How a Mom from Atlanta became a Remote Software Engineer at Stitch Fix

#121: Kesha Lake - How a Mom from Atlanta became a Remote Software Engineer at Stitch Fix

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Kesha Lake is a member of the Career Karma community from Atlanta. She joined Career Karma in the beginning of 2019. Less than a year later, she got a job as a remote...

30 Joulu 20191h 27min

#120: Jerrick Warren - How Career Karma's first member became a Software Engineer at Gemini

#120: Jerrick Warren - How Career Karma's first member became a Software Engineer at Gemini

Jerrick Warren has an inspiring story of breaking into the Blockchain Tech Startup Gemini coming from a background in medicine. He went from joining the Career Karma community, to getting accepted i...

3 Joulu 20191h 9min

#119: Career Karma Origin Story (by the CEO of Free Code Camp)

#119: Career Karma Origin Story (by the CEO of Free Code Camp)

#119: Career Karma Origin Story (by the CEO of Free Code Camp) by Breaking Into Startups

14 Loka 20191h 19min