In the meantime, join the a16z Speedrun talent network! a16z is a venture capital firm that invests in and scales some of today's most popular tech companies. They scale companies through a 12-week growth program called Speedrun. Here’s what they are offering: - 300+ a16z Speedrun startups are hiring - Joining takes about a minute - A Speedrun partner introduces you to founders - It’s free for candidates - Open roles include Founding Engineer, ML Engineer, Product Designer, GTM Lead, Platform Engineer, and Design Engineer If you’ve been building with Claude, this is a good place to put that work in front of people. Founding teams at early startups want people who already work with AI every day. --- Before you sign up: 1. Update your portfolio or LinkedIn so the link you share shows your best AI work. 2. Pick the one or two roles you’d actually want. 3. Sign up here: a16z speedrun talent network A warm intro is not a job offer, so treat it as a door that opens. I haven’t vetted every startup on the list, so do your own homework on each one. If you join, tell us in the comments.

⬇️ Tonight's Session ⬇️ https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/ZAdYcK3f5M7DjYwPscz8Zo6ZPchWnfyLL0UHZPzZVaKkaDJ54dreB9RdaQR9TV1z.S0zw39rm4cEclZjt Passcode: !Q8xM4A% --- We discussed: 1. Why I'm moving my presentations to Claude Slides: comment mode, custom fonts and logos, and export to HTML or PDF 2. Portfolio mindset: show what you built end to end, with AI as your thinking partner 3. How I'm using Claude to run a client engagement from first email to free lunch and learn to paid assessment 4. The pre-work checklist and personal context doc that get a client ready before we ever meet 5. Building plugins so Claude does the paperwork, and I just teach Prompts to try this week: 1. Build a branded deck in Claude Slides: a presentation in your fonts, logo, and style without screenshot ping-pong 2. Retell your case study around the decisions: show the problem, the calls you made, and how fast you shipped 3. Find who you forgot to follow up with: unanswered emails surfaced, follow-ups waiting as drafts 4. Let Claude interview you, once: a personal context document so you never re-explain yourself 5. Build a pre-work checklist before the meeting: show up to a discovery meeting with real examples, not guesses #1 in full: Let's create a Claude artifact: a presentation for [audience] about [topic]. I'm attaching my logo ([SVG or PNG]), a PDF of a deck whose look I want to match, and this Google Fonts link for the typeface: [font URL]. Place my logo in the top-left corner of every slide and follow the attached deck's colors and spacing. Keep it to [number] slides. Before you build, describe the style you'll follow in a few lines so I can correct it. Then build it, and I'll use comment mode to fix individual slides. All 5 prompts in one PDF, attached below 👇🏾 Which prompt are you running first? Drop the number below 🚀

⬇️ Last Night's Session ⬇️ https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/h3EHztQM9H8Cm5qFA0v9MD2EqDOrn153BoKgmaGLV_Lxg-JCkDA3QpyGItiaq-lu.0Vhv7Aa4KggZncCO Passcode: y82kMvQ= --- We discussed: 1. BreAnn rebuilt her marketing site with Claude-powered animations 2. Motion design and micro-interactions that create real delight for Njeri's project 3. New model drops from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta, plus when to use Opus vs. Sonnet vs. Haiku 4. My AI Opportunity Assessment process: interviews, rubric, roadmap, governance policy, and prompt studio Prompts to try this week: 1. Sketch it, then direct it: get the motion you pictured instead of the one Claude guessed 2. Design the feeling first: turn "make it less clinical" into five concrete micro-interactions 3. Two versions, two branches: compare design directions without risking the version that works 4. Content calendar on autopilot: a monthly calendar, a nightly status sweep, and email drafts you review 5. From interviews to a ranked roadmap: turn a pile of "I wish AI could do this" into a plan a client can act on #1 in full: I'm attaching a rough sketch of [page or section name]. Here's what's on it: [list the pieces, e.g. logo, photo, headline]. Here's how I want them to move: [piece 1] should [start where, move how, end where], then [piece 2] should [start where, move how, end where]. Keep [layout / colors / fonts] exactly as they are. Before you build anything, restate the movement as numbered steps so I can correct it. Then build it. All 5 prompts in one PDF, attached below 👇🏾 Which prompt are you running first? Drop the number below 🚀