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The speedrun talent network so far.

Builders, designers, researchers, and operators who told us they want to work on early-stage software. Hundreds of placements across the portfolio so far.

Total in the network
197,000+
Joined this month
2,625
Founding-curious
42%
of recent signups
Currently students
17%
of recent signups

What they do

Many members span more than one craft, so the mix sums past 100%.

Who's in the network

Tap a craft to see where those members have worked and studied.

Where they've worked

Amazon 6,361+
Google 3,858+
Microsoft 3,582+
Meta 3,059+
Apple 1,875+
IBM 1,724+
JPMorgan 1,359+
Electronic Arts 1,123+
Goldman Sachs 1,086+
Oracle 1,023+
Riot Games 929+
Uber 918+

Where they studied

UC Berkeley 3,709+
Stanford 2,578+
Harvard 2,544+
NYU 2,522+
USC 2,278+
Columbia 2,198+
UPenn 1,847+
UCLA 1,744+
Georgia Tech 1,723+
Northeastern 1,660+
UIUC 1,605+
Cornell 1,551+

Hiring across the portfolio

Live aggregates from the jobs board, computed from the jobs database on every render. Counts move as companies open and close roles.

Live roles
23,486
Companies hiring
780
Remote friendly
9%
2,099 roles open to remote
Posted pay bands
20%
4,671 roles post a pay range

Demand by function

Share of the 23,486 live roles, by function.

Posted pay by function

Midpoints of posted pay bands (annual USD). Bar length tracks the median; only functions with 15 or more posted bands are shown.

Top hiring locations

Cities with the most live roles. Remote roles are counted separately above.

San Francisco 1,743
Costa Mesa 1,345
New York 1,065
Singapore 522
Los Angeles 515
Seattle 513
Austin 485
London 459
2 Locations 390
San Jose 387

Portfolio split

The board spans speedrun companies and the wider a16z portfolio.

Common questions

How many roles are open across the portfolio right now?

23,486 live roles across 780 portfolio companies, synced continuously from each company's live job board. Browse them all at https://speedrun-talent-network.com/jobs.

How many of the open roles are remote?

2,099 of the 23,486 live roles (9%) are open to remote candidates.

What do engineering roles at portfolio companies pay?

Across the 2,120 engineering roles with a posted pay band, the median band midpoint is $204k per year, and the middle half of roles fall between $168k and $250k (annual USD, computed from posted ranges only).

Which functions are hiring the most?

Engineering leads with 8,444 open roles (36% of the board), followed by operations (4,221) and sales (1,393).

Methodology: aggregates over roles currently listed on the jobs board. Pay figures use the midpoint of each posted range, annual USD only, and are shown per function, never per company. Machine-readable feeds: jobs.md and jobs.rss.

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Network-wide figures as of 2026-11-03; counts are anonymized lower-bound aggregates, so they read as minimums. No names, emails, or links to individuals.