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🤝 Asks & intros
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A simple “#2 might be relevant to you” is enough. For anonymized asks, reply to this email with Intro [ref] (e.g., Intro gUMmf8z) and we'll connect you.
Co-founder/People to jam with
"Anonymous" (gUMmf8z) is looking for a technical co-founder (CTO or founding engineer, based in London or SF) to build a consumer-facing neuro-AI startup pioneering thought-based computing as the next natural input modality. Pre-funding; needs someone exceptional at the hardware-software intersection and comfortable with ambiguity.
Startup Job Search
"Anonymous" (gUMmf8z) is a senior ML engineer with 6 years at a $2B+ AI infrastructure unicorn (ex-founding ML hire), patents in distributed inference, MEng Imperial College CS ranked top of cohort. Looking for founding engineer or head-of-ML roles at pre-Series-B AI startups in London or fully remote; equity-meaningful, technical-founder-led teams only.
"Anonymous" (vN5dG6h) is an ex-VP Growth at a category-defining vertical SaaS scale-up ($50M+ ARR, 4x in 18 months), architected the inbound + outbound lead-gen engine and scaled the GTM team from 3 to 25. Looking for VP Growth, founding GTM, or head-of-growth roles at Series A/B in NYC, SF, or fully remote.
Fundraising
Syad (Founder @ Khelkud) is raising $150k at a $1.5M post-money valuation from angels and grant programs to scale Pakistan's sports-tech engine for bookings, tournaments, and community-driven play. Already running university pilots with viral loops; open to investor intros.
Technical / Other Asks
Ishan is looking for intros to recruiting teams or agencies actively hiring for technical roles, to validate willingness-to-pay for a new product. He's building an AI tool that automates take-home assignments end-to-end, from generating them based on a job description to reviewing submissions.
Johann (Founder @ Bandurai) is looking for intros to Senior Partners, Public Sector Leads, CEOs, or COOs at medium-to-large UK and Ireland consulting firms in the public sector market. He's building Bandurai, an operating system for winning complex B2B deals (bid landscape mapping, decision-node identification, deal intelligence), with a team pulled from HSBC, Microsoft, Meta, Santander, and IBM.
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🥳 Wins & Celebrations
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Batuhan (Co-Founder @ Grand Games) on raising a $70M Series B led by Balderton, bringing total funding to $103M at a near-unicorn valuation; a 6x step-up in 12 months with single-digit dilution. Built two games holding the #1 and #2 spots on the US iOS chart with just 75 people in Istanbul, the kind of capital efficiency that makes other studio founders feel slightly ill. 🎮 Receipt.
Robin (Co-Founder @ ComfyUI) on raising $30M at a $500M valuation led by Craft Ventures, bringing total funding to $48M with 4M users and 60k+ community-built nodes. Grassroots open-source AI creative workflow that went from GitHub side project to the infrastructure layer powering serious production pipelines, the "picks and shovels" play for every model released. 🧠 Receipt.
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👾 Featured TechGames
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Beyond our community games running across the network, we're opening TechGames Munich! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 We just posted on LinkedIn about why Munich might be the most underrated tech city right now. If you've got 10 seconds, react & drop some love in the comments so more of the right people find us. 🙏🙏
Two games, same evening. Come play if you're around either city.
Jun 11 | 👾 TechGames Munich #1 - Opening Night (Munich, Germany) - Curated strategy game night for founders, operators, and investors. Poker, chess, catan, and risk on the tables. Hosted by Omar. Doors at 19:00.
Jun 11 | 🃏 Curated Social Poker #37 (London, UK) - No-limit Hold'em cash game (£20 buy-in) for founders, operators, and investors. Doors at 18:00, cards at 18:30.
🎭 Behind the Scenes - The 100% Hit Rate
After talking with so many of you over the years and helping with all kinds of bottlenecks, one stood out as the biggest and most time-consuming of them all, the one where some of you have genuinely lost years: hiring, and finding the right job.
Some of you lost, operators, want to make a million but just wasted several years on the wrong startups. Other of you, really smart founders, just burned a ton of money and month of operational headache hiring, teaching, and firing the wrong person.
It happens too many times, and honestly it deeply frustrates us, because it's the best people in the world wasting their time or killing their exponential growth.
We assume level of advancement of a business is an exponential of efficient resources t put in it). A good job match increase efficient resource t, whereas a bad match doesn’t move the needle.
There is a way to palliate this massive (year) cost to palliate cost but it’s extremely costly - loads of random calls, multiple different recruiters, ATS, intros that go nowhere, big fees, and dozens and dozens of hours of time dealing with this all.
But for some reason, the intros we've quietly made through this newsletter have had a really high hit rate. This channel just works. We don't fully know why, maybe it's the caliber of people here, maybe it's the format. What we do know is it's been genuinely appreciated and helpful and does indeed increase your odds of winning. So we're going to build on top of this solid foundation to make sure we squeeze the full potential of value we can give you. We’ll encapsulate this inside GTO Jobs. We ran it quietly for a month, and we've already made ten matches.
What has been clear is that S-tier operators want to bet years of their life on incredibly smart founders who are more likely to win. Lucky us, this community is filled with both sides.
The slightly crazy utopic goal we're chasing on a product perspective is a 100% hit rate with 0% false positive. Every single intro turns into a job, no churn, and both sides are genuinely happy. We don't know exactly how we'll get there. We're starting from a great spot, the pool the games attract is already insanely high quality, and from there we'll see. Maybe we build modular games tuned to each role someone's hiring for, maybe something else. In true GTO fashion, we'll think about it deeply. For now, everything about building incredible teams runs through GTO Jobs. Put two of the right people together and 1+1=3.
We don't want you guys to waste a single year. Two ways in:
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