Coastal Current - Weekly Candidate Spotlight, in 30 seconds

In the spirit of consistency, clarity and brevity - below are the top 3 candidates from this week looking for startup opportunities.

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1) Sr. Product Manager - Gaming

• Key Experience: 7+ years of experience in top gaming studios - Scopely, Jam City, & 2k

• Notable Accomplishment #1: Drove revenue growth by $2m monthly by creating 1st of it’s kind web platform

• Notable Accomplishment #2: Drove overall growth of game by 55%

2) Co-Founding Engineer - FinTech

• Key Experience: 5+ years of full-stack experience (react/typescript/node)

• Notable Accomplishment #1: Built company to 3m ARR - developed MVP and built infra

• Education: CS degree from Carnegie Mellon

3) Staff ML Engineer - AI

• Key Experience: 12+ years of FAANG experience - Google, Airbnb, & Amazon alum

• Notable Accomplishment #1: Founding ML Engineer at VC backed Seed company - created ML models from 0-1 and stood up org - hired 3 other ML Engs

• Education: CS degree from Stanford

Disclaimer All candidates are looking to join early-stage startups, with the desire to work with a team, mission and vision that tightly aligns with their own.

Finally, the below caught our eye from Carta this week re: founders diluting themselves less than ever before - especially at the Series A stage…

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Until next time 🫡

The Coastal Team