Talent Network · live snapshot

The speedrun talent network so far.

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

Total in the network
164,000+
Joined this month
1,952
Founding-curious
39%
of recent signups
Currently students
18%
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 5,890+
Google 3,665+
Meta 3,563+
Microsoft 2,890+
Apple 1,535+
Riot Games 1,072+
IBM 972+
Electronic Arts 955+
Uber 931+
JPMorgan 853+
Salesforce 812+
Goldman Sachs 752+

Where they studied

UC Berkeley 4,129+
Stanford 3,006+
Georgia Tech 2,246+
NYU 2,154+
Carnegie Mellon 1,872+
USC 1,864+
Harvard 1,835+
MIT 1,691+
Columbia 1,672+
UCLA 1,639+
UIUC 1,530+
Waterloo 1,494+

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
16,896
Companies hiring
851
Remote friendly
12%
1,944 roles open to remote
Posted pay bands
20%
3,362 roles post a pay range

Demand by function

Share of the 16,896 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 1,292
Costa Mesa 1,153
New York 919
Singapore 539
London 373
Austin 364
San Jose 302
Dallas 282
Washington 235
Los Angeles 232

Portfolio split

The board spans speedrun companies and the wider a16z portfolio.

Common questions

How many roles are open across the portfolio right now?

16,896 live roles across 851 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?

1,944 of the 16,896 live roles (12%) are open to remote candidates.

What do engineering roles at portfolio companies pay?

Across the 1,461 engineering roles with a posted pay band, the median band midpoint is $200k per year, and the middle half of roles fall between $165k and $239k (annual USD, computed from posted ranges only).

Which functions are hiring the most?

Engineering leads with 6,039 open roles (36% of the board), followed by operations (2,923) and sales (1,206).

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 2026-08-13; counts are anonymized lower-bound aggregates, so they read as minimums. No names, emails, or links to individuals.