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“I think viewing your board as an audience to be ‘sold’ to instead of a partner in your journey will orient your board to be less trusting and collaborative.” Five Questions with Nilam Ganenthiran, Former President of Instacart

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For startups, a good Board is better than no Board, but a bad Board is worse than anything. But sometimes the CEO takes the initiative to recruit an absolute gem and that was the case with ResQ , a software startup servicing the hospitality owners and service/repair vendors. So what follows are Five Question with Nilam.

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Garry Tan is the next president and CEO of Y Combinator

TechCrunch

Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011. Ralston did not say what’s next for him, only writing: “I am leaving YC, but I’m not actually the retiring type and am looking forward to some to-be-discovered adventures.” Tan wears many hats. Ralston continued.

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Despite the venture slowdown, fintech startups are still hiring

TechCrunch

On September 28, LinkedIn released its Top Startups list, which is its self-described annual ranking of 50 emerging U.S. Here’s what I found out: Seven fintech companies ranked in the top 50: Brex (No. Drilling down, I learned that among the seven fintech startups that made the list, there are 125+ open roles.

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From Self-Doubt to Starting Up: Words of Wisdom for Women Founders From YC Continuity Partner Anu Hariharan

Y Combinator

According to recent data , funding to women-founded companies dropped from 2.8% Last year, during Y Combinator’s Future Founders Conference , a16z’s Sonal Chokshi led a conversation on “Leveling the Playing Field” with Anu Hariharan, YC Continuity Partner. Now, I’m not a founder, but I was very happy in my role at Andresseen Horowitz.

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Vikrum Nijjar: Engineer #1 at Firebase and Founder of Gold Fig Labs (YC S19)

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Vikrum Nijjar joined as the first engineer at Firebase, and did whatever it took to help the company succeed: scaling out infrastructure, shipping mobile SDKs, hosting 1-1 office hours with developers and even standing in as SRE for 24×7 hour shifts… for over a year. At a startup, you get to contribute to just about everything.

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Engineer #2 at ClearBrain (YC W18): Cynthia Rogers

Y Combinator

Cynthia Rogers, a CS graduate from WPI near Boston, made her move to San Francisco with no job lined up, a decision tree of startup failure outcomes and well wishes from her old team at DraftKings. Read how she evaluates startups — both technically and culturally — and some useful tips she used along the way.