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Varsity Women's Club
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Issue 08 · July 2026
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Issue 08
The Founder Issue
An MIT rower turned CEO who's now hiring across nine open roles, plus an ACS hiring day in Austin this Saturday.
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★ This Saturday · Austin
ACS Hiring Day
Saturday, July 11, 2026 · 9 AM to 1 PM
Allen Control Systems factory, Austin, TX
Allen Control Systems is opening its Austin factory floor for an electrical-focused hiring day: expedited interviews, a tour of their AI-powered robotic defense systems, and direct face time with the engineering and manufacturing teams. Roles on deck include Electrical Assembly Technicians, Manufacturing Engineers, and Quality Inspectors.
Bring a printed resume and your ID. U.S. Person status is required for ITAR compliance.
Get on the List →
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Member Spotlight
From Class President to Founder
Anna Sun rowed at MIT and ran the student body as class president, organizing events for more than 1,300 people before she'd graduated. Then came software and product stints at Datadog, DoorDash, and Amazon. Now she's the CEO of Nowadays (YC S23), the AI co-pilot she built with her sister Amy to make corporate event planning effortless.
The pitch is refreshingly simple: hand Nowadays your event, and its AI handles the sourcing, the venue calls, the contracts, and the negotiations, all while staying on budget. It has already booked more than $4 million in events for Google, Amazon, Notion, and Supabase, and raised $2 million to keep building.
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Class president is just team captain with a bigger roster.
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Anna is candid about what it takes: in her telling, companies rarely die because the money runs out. They die when the founder quits. That's the athlete's edge, and it's exactly the kind of teammate she's looking for right now.
See what Nowadays is building →
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Now Hiring
Nine ways into Nowadays
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Nowadays (YC S23)
San Francisco · AI Event Platform
Anna's team builds for Fortune 500s, for fellow YC startups, and for themselves. Their own offsites set the bar: the team races Ironmans and marathons together, and one retreat took them to the Thailand resort from White Lotus season 3. If planning events and automating the messy parts with AI sounds like your arena, this is a team worth meeting.
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Engineering
Nowadays · San Francisco
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Founding engineering is a two-way sprint: architect for the long game, ship for today.
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Founding Software Engineer · full stack, from AI systems to React
Founding Product Engineer · customer-driven features, end to end
Founding AI Engineer · LLM agents for calling, scraping, research
Product Engineer Intern · Fall 2026
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Operations
Nowadays · San Francisco
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Ops is the engine room: own events end to end and turn chaos into repeatable plays.
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Founding Operator · own events and client comms end to end
Operations Intern · Fall 2026, RFP to proposal
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Design
Nowadays · San Francisco
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Own the whole system: brand, product, and the voice everything speaks in.
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Founding Product Designer · design system and brand from scratch
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Go-to-Market
Nowadays · San Francisco
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Full-cycle selling with founder-close energy: own the conversation from first call to signed deal.
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Founding Account Executive · full sales cycle, first call to close
Founding Mid-Market AE · deals from $50K to $200K ACV
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How to Apply
Interested in any Nowadays role? Just reply to this email, or write [email protected], and we'll get you on a call with the team.
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Grow the Roster
Know a teammate who belongs here? Forward this, and send them our way.
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