We are a group of Google alumni and current Googlers who have come together to help each other advance our ambitions in the startup ecosystem. The Xoogler.co community consists of startup founders, early team members, angel investors, VCs, and mentors.
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Thank you Alaap Tatwawadi for always being such an incredible host for the Xoogler.co community! Your leadership and contributions help us form a tight and helpful community Singapore 🙏 I’m featuring folks that can help advise people on moving to Singapore 🇸🇬, let me know if you’d like to share your story for 1-2 mins on my Instagram which has received 876,700 views in the past 4 weeks 🚀 https://lnkd.in/gbC5KixB
Thank you Kazuki Notsu-san of your leadership within the Xoogler community, especially your incredible efforts bringing the Xoogler community in Japan 🇯🇵 together 🙏
6:15am 🇸🇬 meetings are the best time to catch up with long time Xoogler.co friends! Thank you for making the time Kazuki Notsu-san 🙏 Are there any friends in Singapore who are pickleball fans? Thank you for your support of Key AI!
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Most people don't leave when they're winning. Shiva Rajaraman did. He walked away from YouTube at 3 billion daily views to take on a new challenge at Spotify. What followed became one of tech's most remarkable product careers: WeWork, Meta, OpenSea, Uber, and now Chief Product & Technology Officer at MrBeast. Across 20 years and 8 major companies, one belief has stayed constant: Great products don't succeed on their own. Understanding the business behind them makes the difference. Some conversations are worth having in a smaller room. That's exactly what Key Studio is built for, co-created with Google's AI Futures Fund. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/gTieTMRU Kushagra Chris
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Key AI Studio was co-created with Google’s AI Futures Fund Xooglers apply by the July 15 deadline for the Xoogler.co community and Google to help your startup blossom! 🔗Visit https://lnkd.in/gX7SMXgV for more information #xoogler #startups #google #alumni
Hey Xoogler.co community meet Key Studio! Let’s built together!
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐀𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐗𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫? Kushagra Shrivastava and I built Key AI to help anyone start a community and build deep professional relationships. Now, for the Xoogler.co community, we're launching Key Studio (supported by Google's AI Futures Fund). You get up to $100K program funding, $350K in Google Cloud & AI credits, early access to Google's newest AI models, and mentorship from world-class operators. Applications close July 15. 📝 Apply at http://xoogler.co/studio Thank you to the program's incredible mentors: Ankit Jain, Anthony DiMarco, Aydin Senkut, Bonita Stewart, Bradley Horowitz, Brent Dance, Brian McClendon, Caesar Sengupta, Catherine Lacavera, Chris Bayley, Christine Tsai, Claire Hughes Johnson, Gretchen Howard, Guru Bhat, Jackson Georges Jr, Kazuki Notsu, Lei Xu, Mahesh Ram, Manik Gupta, Marissa Mayer, Mark Cummins, Noah Ready-Campbell, Qasar Younis, Remi Cossart, Satya Patel, Shiva Rajaraman, Sunita Verma, Todd Jackson, Veronique Lafargue, Vibhu Mittal, Yiğit Ihlamur and more! #keyai #xoogler #startups #ai #futuresfund
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Google is not a company. It's a train station for employees. Multiple platforms. Trains leaving in every direction. People boarding, some staying a few stops, some riding to the very end. Last week I attended the Xoogler.co Reunion. Hundreds of people who used to work at Google, now scattered across completely different lives. Was fascinating to hear from Alice Mansergh who now runs Tourism Ireland. Emer Kennedy who became a full time executive coach after spending mutliple years in Google. A few are deep into VC, writing checks into the same kind of company they once worked for. I sat there thinking, we all boarded the same train. None of us got off at the same station. There is a false belief that a tech company only produces software engineers. That once you join, your identity gets locked into one track. That is not what I saw in that room. What I saw was a company that builds people, not just products. It gives you the platform, the exposure, the network, and then lets you choose your own direction. A huge part of that alumni energy exists because of Chris, who built the Xoogler community from the ground up. One person, one decision to connect people, and now there is a global network that outlives anyone's time at the company. If you are early in your career and think your current company defines your final destination, it does not. It is just the station you are standing in right now. The trains are already there. You just have to decide which one to board. Special thanks to Stephanie Davis, Tobias Wittmann, Aisling Kennedy and the rest of the team for organising.
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Key AI has partnered with Google’s AI Futures Fund to offer Xooglers the opportunity to access pre-release AI models, mentors, credits and more to build your startup. Join our remaining Q&A sessions on Sunday 7/12 / Monday 7/13 before the July 15 application deadline! Learn more 👇 #xoogler #google #ai #futuresfund
Amazing opportunity for Xoogler founders, be sure to join Chris on Sunday / Monday for the final Q&A sessions!
Goodbye Europe 🇮🇪🇪🇺! I’m running 2 more Google AI Futures Fund x Key AI Studio Q&A sessions on Monday July 13 (Sunday July 12 evening US) for Xooglers ahead of the July 15 deadline. Xooglers don’t miss out on this opportunity to hear how Xoogler mentors and Google can support your startup! Find out more at https://lnkd.in/gX7SMXgV RSVP for Sunday night Americas / Monday morning APAC https://key.ai/aiff RSVP for Monday APAC / EMEA https://key.ai/aiff2 Thank you Google for having me again in Dublin for Xoogler Reconnect! #xoogler #dublin #google #alumni
Did anyone here work at Google Dublin?
I wish I did a stint at Google Dublin 🇮🇪 Peter McAvoy & Kingsley Kelly shared their thoughts after yesterday’s Xoogler Reconnect event. What do you wish you did before leaving Google? https://lnkd.in/gNSwNUue People loved the ⛷️ trips and international backgrounds. I miss the audacious TGIF sessions led by Larry and Sergey and all the incredible product launches and acquisitions that were made 2006-2015. 🚀 If I had my time back, I would do a rotation in Shanghai, I shared with the internal Google audience to lean into Vietnam and offer support or even becoming a buddy to a Googler based in the Google Vietnam 🇻🇳 office. Leaning into growth is always the best idea to get your own growth. 💡Feel free to share your advice or thoughts 👇 #xoogler #dublin #google #alumni
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𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝘅-𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗿 🚨 Yesterday Google Dublin hosted its annual Xoogler get together - a networking event for current and former employees, organized in close collaboration with Xoogler.co and the community founder Chris Fong. 🙌 Founded in 2015, the Xoogler community today has over 35000+ members worldwide. 🌏 It was a great chance to catch up with old friends and meet new people that left the company years and even decades ago. 🤯 And seeing how everyone is still coming back after all this time, really says a lot about the culture that Google has and that Google employees carry on, even long after they leave the company. 💙 Why did I attend? 💥 Because I was curious who'd be there and looking forward to some networking. 🤝 A professional network is not just about your current job and company, it is a developing community one builds over time and across companies. 🤩 Thanks Stephanie Davis, Tobias Wittmann and team for hosting and organizing. Already looking forward to more events like this. 👍 And for all the Googlers and Xooglers: Make sure to check out Chris' community and sign up to the newly launched platform. ✅ -- 🔔 Follow me for more posts on digital marketing, AI strategy, and life at Google. ♻️ Share this post with your network if you enjoyed it.