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Today is the final day to join SpeedHacks, our first official hackathon taking place this Sunday (10/11)

The challenge: Find ways to give people their time back.

Build and get help from @speedrun teams:
Dial (@DialAgent)
Alike (@DanialHussain_ )
Keewano (@karger_dima)
Darwin (@joindarwin)
and Sparta (@aryakanna9).

Winners will receive an expedited interview with the speedrun + Alpha investment team and $1K prize, plus teams can win $1K for each company’s “best use” prize.

Bring teammates or find your team there. Food, caffeine, and swag provided!

c u there

fine day at @speedrun demo day

ft @nrol_ling @OrukLabs

final week to apply to Speedrun Alpha fellowship! up to $250k investment in technical students + recent grads who want to build. apps close this sunday. 👀 👀 👀

apply: alpha.a16z.com

details below 👇

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alpha is our fellowship for technical students and recent grads who want to start building. we have two tracks:

for future founders:

- up to $250K investment
- $1M+ in credits across AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor and more
- office hours and fireside chats with speedrun partners
- 8 weeks in person in SF (jan 11 – mar 5)

if you'd rather get experience before starting a company, apply to our talent track:

- intros to speedrun portfolio companies to find your mutual fit
- office hours and fireside chats with speedrun partners
- 4 weeks in person in SF (feb 8 – mar 5)

Super excited to unveil Hack Week, a new community-led, builder focused track happening for the first time across SF and LA @Techweek_ !

We’re bringing together 150+ technical events across both cities, including 69 hackathons alongside and tons of product demos, workshops and builder meetups.

Events are hosted by Anthropic, Google, Amazon, MongoDB, Mistral, OpenRouter, Datadog, Scale, Exa, Cloudflare, Stanford, Berkeley, USC, and many more.

We’ll culminate the week with SpeedHacks, the official Speedrun Hackathon, featuring tracks hosted by speedrun portfolio companies. The winning team will receive a final-round interview for Alpha or Speedrun.

probably the best thing to come out of Alpha is finding friends who are genuinely in your corner

tb to the mems from a001~

hello

A001 closing celebration at the giants game!

Bittersweet that the first cohort of @speedrun Alpha has come to an end. I miss everyone 🥲

Its time to start now