The Gatsby of Silicon Valley, the AI gold rush, Art Basel's changing, + Snoop Dogg's Bored Ape ice cream drop
Women in Emerging Tech - Issue #58
Hi everyone! Wow, you take one week off for vacation… and one week off to graduate from yoga teacher training… and the emerging tech world boasts so much news that you don’t even know where to start. Hopefully I captured *most* of the highlights from while I was away.
Anyhow, welcome to Women in Emerging Tech! I’m Carly Long from Weld Recruiting and this is the 58th edition of our weekly get-down!
Scroll through for:
👯 Women in web3… and beyond
💼 Emerging tech job openings + stellar candidates
🗓 Tech events to pencil in & big recaps
📰 All the #emergingtech news… (AI everything, NFT alpha, crypto updates, blockchain news, metaverse minutes + more)
📚 A little bit of learning
👯 Women in web3… and beyond
Unrelated to web3, just shouting out two exciting press hits from my *other* day job as a publicist in the luxury hospitality, travel and events sphere. Maddy Spellerberg has scoop 1 + scoop 2.
Amanda Archer is leading the charge in web3 travel with her exclusive First Apes Wives Club 🚀
On the move… Kelly DiGregorio, known for closing Polygon’s deals with Starbucks, Disney, and Mastercard — is now a VP at OpenSea 👀 Sarah Mendelsohn also made a move as the Global Head of Web3, CRM & Loyalty for YSL Beauty at L'Oréal
Rachel Weiss of L’Oréal BOLD Ventures joined the Gen C podcast to discuss how emerging tech, from VR and AR to new social platforms like Threads, has challenged the ways she engages with consumers. Listen here 🎧
Laura Du is starting The New Club, a female-led, members-only community on a mission to connect the world's #WomenInEngineering ✨
Bravo to Shachar Scott, VP of Marketing at Meta Reality Labs, for being named to Campaign’s 40 over 40 list 👏 (She also announced that Roblox is coming to Meta Quest)
Amber Ward x Invisible North dropped a stellar campaign with Michael B. Jordan (What hasn’t Invisible North done?)
Jessica Berger asked "Is ‘real’ the new 'luxury’? How can we maintain uniqueness, authenticity, and trustworthiness amidst the rising tide of AI-generated content?” Read on for her thoughts.
💼 Switching this up for the week from open jobs to stellar candidates!
🚀 If you’re a candidate looking for a new career in web3, AI or emerging tech: Submit your resume to job openings on the Weld Recruiting site.
Shout out to our newest recruiter on the team, Alex Allen! If you’re looking for a new role, connect with Alex. He’s awesome, I promise.
+ A note on stellar candidates:
Does anyone need an awesome #CFO? Especially in the #web3 and #blockchain space — I just spoke with a candidate who has experience at Matter Labs, Kraken and Figure... as well as Citi, American Express and Fidelity!
There is SO much good talent out there right now! If you are in a position to hire, do it.
With just one Director of Product Management role, we got resumes for candidates who’ve worked at Circle, 21co, Credit Suisse, Google, and more!
Plus, we have US and international folks from Deloitte, Ava Labs, and BNY Mellon. Autograph, Warner Music, CBS, IBM, Sweet, Adim… it goes on and on for all sorts of roles from digital assets and blockchain leadership, to product design, to marketing, etc.
+ Jobs of the week:
Netflix is hiring a Technical Director with AI/ML knowledge for their Game Studio + a Product Manager for their Machine Learning Platform.
Totally unrelated to web3… but I love Gabby Bernstein and she’s hiring a Product Manager too. If I did product things, I’d be first in line
Join Vedha Vijayan at TRM Labs as their Backend Product Engineering team grows
Tegan Kline is looking for an Operations Associate at Edge & Node
Tyler Hopf and Roblox are hiring Designers
And Sarina Siddhanti and Uniswap Labs are looking for two Growth team members
🗓 Tech events to pencil in & big recaps
AdAge’s Leading Women event is next week, Aug. 8 in NYC. Bringing together Julia Landauer, Marissa Solis, Ann Mukherjee, Amani Duncan, and more amazing leaders.
ApeFest is heading to Hong Kong. November 3-5. Interested in sponsorships? Holler at Lindsay Ezykowich.
We’ll be at Permissionless II in Austin from Sept. 11-13 and TechCrunch Disrupt in San Fran from Sept. 19-21. Who wants to get coffee?! 🙋🏻♀️
Art Basel has a new chief in town: Noah Horowitz. How will he shape Miami’s Dec. 8-10 experience? Stay tuned to find out
IDK Andrew Yeung’s event schedule… but apparently I oughta find out
SXSW 2024 starts now. Apply to the Pitch competition for a chance to pitch your startup in front of a panel of judges, high-profile media professionals, and investors
📰 All the #emergingtech news… (AI everything, NFT alpha, crypto updates, blockchain news, metaverse minutes + more)
Ralph Lauren is selling a physical version of their Fortnite boot (Alexandra Dennett does this have your hands on it?!) + Gucci is rewarding their NFT holders with physical products, according to Micael Barilaro and Yuga Labs partner Michael Figge. Maghan McDowell has the scoop
United Arab Emirates national airline Etihad Airways is unveiling its ‘Horizon Club’ — a web3 loyalty program that will let you stake NFTs for miles
Joseph Mills and Google Play announced a major shift in policy that allows developers to incorporate NFTs into their apps and games in the store. Reddit and Matt Williamson were one of the partners working with Google on the new policy
David Ripley & Kraken celebrated their 12th anniversary… with a goal to ‘empower the next billion crypto users’
Elliot Han and banking titans like JPMorgan and Citi want to put Wall Street on a blockchain
Bernhard Schweizer at SAP is turning on web3… Glenn Rachlin has the scoop
Tom Goedde and SimWin Sports are infusing fantasy football with AI and NFTs… and just received backing from Magic Johnson + former NBC Universal and LA Clippers CEO Dick Parsons, and David Levy, ex-head of Turner Networks and more
L’Occitane En Provence introduced a VR experience that takes customers to the heart of Provence, powered by Emperia. I mean Provence has always been on my bucket list… maybe this will do?
Snoop Dogg’s Bored Ape ‘Dr. Bombay’ just dropped an ice cream line at Walmart. I’ll take Waffle Sundaze please
Saman Michael Far & Amazon are expanding their Managed Blockchain Services
AI entrepreneur Sam Altman launched an eyeball scanning crypto coin
Holder.xyz dubbed the ‘17 best’ brand activations in web3 we’ve seen thus far
Apple started testing ‘Apple GPT.’ Is anyone surprised? Is ‘Amazon GPT’ next? Meanwhile, Jenn Crider shared that Google is testing an AI product dubbed ‘Genesis’ to produce news stories, pitching it to news organizations including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. + Google Bard’s latest update includes image recognition.
📚 A little bit of learning
Why Ivan Dashkov & Puma see Web3 and the metaverse as the next great commerce opportunity
In the article: “When we’re thinking about the next era of the internet… It’s going to encompass multiple adjacent technologies, whether that’s immersive experiences or blockchain-based,” — Vayner3 president Avery Akkineni. Do you agree? (I agree… with pretty much everything Avery says! Lol she’s one to follow if you’re not already!)
McDonald’s opened McNuggets Land in the metaverse, but McWhy? Toby Bochan has the scoop at Coindesk
Matthew McConaughey riffed on AI with Asa Hiken and how businesses are fueling its risks + How AI is revamping out-of-home advertising, from Lindsay Rittenhouse
Ryan Heath at Axios reported on the ‘AI goldrush’ with a stark visual… read on for ‘Why it matters.’
+ More than 40% of Gen Z thinks A.I. music, movies, and art will replace human-made content in 20 years. Read the full report from Stephen Pastis
That’s all for now folks! See you next week.
In the meantime, let me know how I can help you ~
📄 Submit your resume and get in touch about a job.
💼 Submit your job and have it posted in next week’s newsletter to reach top talent.
💌 Join 5K+ subscribers and sign up for this weekly Women in Emerging Tech email if you haven’t already!
📲 Join 32K+ folks in connecting with me and following me on LinkedIn, Twitter + Instagram.
~ Sponsored by Weld Recruiting ~