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For folks wanting to become founders, here’s what helped me find co-founders and community. Finding Co-founders ================ The search takes time, patience, resilience,  and putting yourself out there to meet more people. I found the Y Combinator matching platform really useful. It was like co-founder Tinder that matched for timelines and preferences. I connected with lots of great folks, helped and got helped. For Ivan though, we met at Meta from way back, and had already been chatting regularly. If we didn't team up, I'd probably continue exploring with YC platform folks. Finding Community =============== I started solo and felt lonely in the initial months, and cared to meet people that felt real and hyperbole-free. I found and joined Founders Network, which was full of authentic and wonderful people. I met Sophie, Chai, Janine, and later Kevin, who cared, supported, listened, and hung out. Over time, I also sought to be as helpful to folks as possible. That’s how I contribute back to the community. Hope this was helpful — DM if you have other questions! ______________ I'm Tony Tan, an ex-Meta engineer building something new. Welcome to follow / connect — would love to get to know you!

Big News! Skillfully Secures $2.5M in Seed Funding! We’re thrilled to announce our latest funding round led by Better Ventures, with participation from Silicon Valley Quad (SVQ), Inventus Capital Partners, Strada Education Foundation, American Student Assistance, and Founders Network. This capital will help scale our simulation-driven hiring tool, HiredNow; expand our TalentNetwork of career partners; and launch new products to enable a skills-first future of employment. At Skillfully we believe in inclusive, skills-centric hiring. Our platform equips employers with the tools to create custom simulations that accurately assess candidate skills at scale, providing rich insights for superior hiring decisions and a better candidate experience for applicants. “Good on Paper” is no longer good enough for employers hoping to hire the best. Discover Skillfully simulations and join us in reshaping the future of work, one perfect hire at a time. Jump into the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eKFnf4DA ... Request a demo today at skillful.ly! #Hiring #Recruitment #AI #HRTech #Skillful.ly #TalentAcquisition #FundingNews

AMAZING NEWS 🎉: We’ve been selected as Honorable Mention by Fast Company 2024 Innovation by Design Awards in the User Experience category! We have from day one considered making lives better for our users as a key dimension of what we do: not just innovation in the technology underpinning of our platform, but equally important to make it easier for the humans using it - the health care providers and the patients/ families. We are molding digital to enable better human connections on the path to better healthcare outcomes. This is the opposite of the healthcare user experience of the last two decades, where well intentioned but poorly designed health technology led to massive physician burnout and great frustration from patients. Fast Company, from their day one, stands as the global leader in all things where innovation in technology, leadership, world changing ideas, creativity meet - it is beyond thrilling to receive this nod from what we see as the equivalent of the Olympics of the innovation space. So honored to see our efforts be recognized alongside designers and businesses that are solving the problems of today and tomorrow, including in the #userexperience category: CODE D'AZUR INTERACTIVE SL, Disney Star, Samsung, Notion, Google, QuSecure, Target, Trove Brands, Kontoor Brands, Inc., Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., Work & Co, Goji Labs, Mercedes-Benz AG, FYI.AI , BASE (Telenet Group), Nomono, ACOMPANY Creative Lab, LLC, Neural DSP, IBM, inCitu, YETI, Albertsons Companies and Brightline. Kudos 👏  to the creative efforts of our Careteam team, in particular of Lisa Taniguchi and Irene Neyman (Yancheva), who brought the founders' vision to reality, and to our long time friends of the company and advisors on how to deepen the human perspective in a digital world Samantha Yarwood, Karyn Zuidinga, Amanda Downs, Tom Shepansky... and of course to all of our partners in co-design - the many many many end users - health providers, administrattors, patients and caregivers - who have spent the time to tell us what works and what needs to be improved so we can better meet their needs. You can find out more about the 2024 #FCDesignAwards: https://lnkd.in/dgCjKTQA #healthinnovation #creativity #leadership #digitalinnovation