Events, events galore.
Things are heating up this summer
It’s July already!
Hi everyone, welcome to another edition of intern.club. After looking at multiple options we decided to switch our newsletter to substack, which will be sent out weekly. The best of the community delivered right to your inbox.
We just crossed 3000 members in our slack group ( which you should totally join at our website) and 53k subscribers to our newsletter.
Some more interesting stats
Most popular city interns want to move to - San Francisco 🌉
Most interns attend - University of Waterloo 🇨🇦
Every week we will be highlighting cool events that we come across, as well as job opportunities, resources and interviews with amazing students and interns. Follow us along on our Medium and Linkedin
Going into this summer we wanted to do something big for our community. So we decided to bring together the most amazing people we could find in Engineering, Product, Design and Startup realms to InternCon 2020, the largest conference for interns by interns, co organized with Explain the Valley and Remote Students
Here’s who’s coming
Ali Partovi - Founder of Neo, early investor in Airbnb, Dropbox, Facebook, & Uber. Sold his first startup to Microsoft for close to $300 million right out of Harvard.
Reggie James - Founder of Eternal, an upcoming virtual social avatar platform.
Julie Pitt - Director of ML Infra @ Netflix.
Kelly Hurlburt - Senior Experience Designer @ Adobe
Hasque May - Founder of Cofolios, Designer @ Instagram
Ian Taylor - Partner @ PearVC
Julie Chen - Investor @ Bessemer Venture Partners
along with founders, designers, investors and product managers from Figma, Tesla, Uber, Lyft, Atlassian, Twilio, Soma Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Google and more for events throughout the day.
Before we launch to the public, we wanted to give intern.club members access to the VIP ticket that unlocks the conference along with special events like a Notion workshop and a virtual gift bag.
intern.events
👥 Wonsulting x intern.club: Leveraging LinkedIn - July 16th - RSVP
Hear from Jonathan and Jerry of Wonsulting, as they discuss tips and tricks on how to best leverage Linkedin to grow your network. So far, they have helped tens of thousands receive offers from top companies including the Google's, Deloitte's, and Goldman Sachs' of the world.
💼 Consulting at Bain & Company: a Q&A - July 18th - RSVP
Kicked off by #consulting, we're super excited to welcome both Rohit Shenoy and Neel Reddy for an intimate question and answer session about consulting at Bain & Company! Rohit is a current Associate Consultant and Neel is a current Associate intern. Come prepared with your burning consulting questions.
🎨 Startup Shadowing AMA w/ Teresa Man - July 16th - RSVP
Soma Capital is giving a peek into its Fellowship program by inviting those interested in taking a gap semester in the Fall to work at one of its early stage portfolio companies. Hear from the lead designer of Superhuman, and learn from current Fellows.
We are currently planning a Hackathon Organizers roundtable, a discussion on gap years as well as a Community feedback session.
Join the community to be part of the discussion.
intern.resources
Help Your Peers is a mentoring initiative by senior PMs to help students with PM interview prep and counseling. Sign up for a group mentoring session here.
Some more events by HYP
Chat with Kyndra LoCoco, Google Accessibility Partner and Community Programs Manager, on how Google works and thinks about accessibility across the organization and ways you can work with accessibility in mind. Sign up here.
You can also tap into more resources offered by HYP such as discount codes to PM prep programs like Exponent and Rocketblocks
Getro works with partners to source talent who’ve been affected by the economic impact of COVID-19. They share vetted talent with their network of hiring managers through a self-serve platform, a weekly newsletter, and hand-curated intros.
intern.jobs
Climate Change internships - If you’re looking for an internship focused on climate change, check out this program.
Startup Shadowing @ Soma Capital - This is a new program targeted towards students looking to take a gap semester in the Fall to intern full time at an early stage startup, followed by a part time incubation program where you get access to mentors and resources from Soma Capital to work on your own idea. Apply here
Full stack and Systems Engineer Intern - Fractal is a cloud computing startup that is pushing the frontiers of low-latency streaming and distributed systems. Founded out of Harvard in 2019, we bring the power of a workstation to any Internet-connected device at ultra-low latency, backed by Neo and executives like the prior CTO of Cisco, Yelp, and advisors to Dropbox & Zoom.
Seedcamp is looking for an investment intern starting in August
Viledge is looking for a Growth Marketing intern
If your company is hiring interns for the fall or next summer, please reply and let us know. We are happy to share the listing for free.
intern.spotlight
Every week, we will be interviewing a phenomenal intern where they will share their experience and any advice they might have.
This week we have Kai Cash, one of the first members of intern.club
Kai, can you give a brief intro about yourself?
I am currently an intern at Blackstone Charitable Foundation in New York City working primarily on Blackstone Launchpad which is an initiative that partners with Techstars and Future Founders to provide best in class support to early stage entrepreneurs. I have 5+ years of experience working with founders, investors, and students to build start-up ecosystems and have started two companies of my own.
Prior to my current role, I worked with J-PAL in India doing TB research, was a maker and machinist at Williams College, worked as a growth intern/analyst at CapitalG in San Francisco, and most recently co-founded and ran an incubator at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China as a Schwarzman Scholar. In addition to my work at Blackstone I am currently also contracting with two startups (one pre-product/pre-rev and one post) & helping to launch a venture fund in Europe focusing on purpose/profit companies. I graduated from Williams with a Bachelors in Economics and Tsinghua University with a Masters in Global Affairs.
Wow, what don’t you do! I remember when we first met you were interning at CapitalG, which is a large growth fund spun out of Google. How did you find that job, coming from a liberal arts school?
CapitalG was the result of being in the right place at the right time honestly. People are paying attention to the things you do in your direct community and you never know who will walk up to you and/or recommend you for a role. I think they saw something in me because I was super active on campus with other things and knew that I would represent them well if I worked at CapitalG.
Advice:
Keep solving the problems right in front of you first and when you do, bring people into the mix to help you.
Let everyone know what you’re up to! Be open to connecting with people and getting feedback.
Pay attention to the seemingly insignificant things because those are the things that bring people together.
Choose to be lucky. you can make your own luck if you’re strategic enough, but do it in a way that isn’t annoying.
Most importantly, be yourself.
How has intern.club helped you in your journey?
Intern.Club helped me to build relationships during my first trip to the Bay Area and accelerated my adjustment to the tech and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Since then, intern.club has served as a valuable platform for connecting with other innovators and game changers to make a meaningful difference on problems in the world. More than anything else, my meme game has been stepped up 100x with the stickers and memes shared here. No, but in all seriousness I’ve found phenomenal community all over the globe through this platform and I am excited to keep learning and growing with all of these folks.
Well we are certainly glad to have you. You can reach Kai in intern.club, @Kai Cash, and also follow him on Linkedin and Twitter
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