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
187,000+
Joined this month
3,571
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 6,027+
Google 3,676+
Microsoft 3,420+
Meta 2,938+
Apple 1,781+
IBM 1,654+
JPMorgan 1,298+
Electronic Arts 1,110+
Goldman Sachs 1,040+
Oracle 982+
Riot Games 925+
Uber 877+

Where they studied

UC Berkeley 3,437+
Harvard 2,435+
Stanford 2,428+
NYU 2,426+
USC 2,209+
Columbia 2,096+
UPenn 1,746+
UCLA 1,650+
Northeastern 1,613+
Georgia Tech 1,594+
UIUC 1,508+
Cornell 1,493+

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
21,612
Companies hiring
782
Remote friendly
9%
1,998 roles open to remote
Posted pay bands
19%
4,083 roles post a pay range

Demand by function

Share of the 21,612 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 1,581
Costa Mesa 1,232
New York 1,018
Singapore 519
London 462
Austin 440
Los Angeles 435
Seattle 405
2 Locations 385
San Jose 380

Portfolio split

The board spans speedrun companies and the wider a16z portfolio.

Common questions

How many roles are open across the portfolio right now?

21,612 live roles across 782 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?

1,998 of the 21,612 live roles (9%) are open to remote candidates.

What do engineering roles at portfolio companies pay?

Across the 1,918 engineering roles with a posted pay band, the median band midpoint is $202k per year, and the middle half of roles fall between $165k and $245k (annual USD, computed from posted ranges only).

Which functions are hiring the most?

Engineering leads with 7,682 open roles (36% of the board), followed by operations (3,867) and sales (1,314).

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 2026-09-28; counts are anonymized lower-bound aggregates, so they read as minimums. No names, emails, or links to individuals.