Women in... Emerging Tech!!! Issue #49 - Our a new name! $243M 4 AI in 5 weeks. I'm actually listening to Grimes AI. And you can work with Yuga Labs.

Welcome to Women in Emerging Tech! I’m  Carly Long  from Weld Recruiting and this is the 49th edition of our weekly get-down!

(Formerly known as #womeninweb3 -- y'all voted it was time to broaden the horizons)

So scroll through for some of the usual and some of the new stuff:

👯 Women in web3… and beyond

🎙 Who we’re talking to on the Weld podcast network

💼 Emerging tech job openings

🗓 Upcoming events you’re gonna want to pencil in…

📰 All the #emergingtech news… (AI everything, NFT alpha, crypto updates, blockchain news, metaverse minutes + more)

0️⃣ A new section I like to call “web0”

Also, feel free to let me know what sections and topics YOU want to see!

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👯 Women in web3… and beyond

• If you’re still asking ‘WTF is an NFT’… founding BFF Randi Zuckerberg breaks it down this week.
• Laura Newinski and her team at KPMG US announced their expanded alliance with Google Cloud to bring AI innovations to new industries.
• Wondering who AI is? Samantha Stevens shares the difference between LLMs and MLMS and more.
• Elana Gold compiled the 11 women investors from Forbes’ Midas List. Give them a follow.
• Neda Whitney of Christie’s joined Avery Akkineni and Sam Ewen on Gen C to discuss the historic Beeple sale and being the first auction house to exist on chain. Take a listen.
• Alexandra Nicorici is bringing forward web3 founders and marketers on her podcast, Out of Ordinary (bc marketing in web3 is definitely out of the ordinary)… and talking about how they’re building communities, brands, strategies, and more. Check out her latest episode with Carolyn Rogers at Blokhaus.
• Palm NFT launched their generative art tool today, plugging into Unreal Engine. Want to hear more about Palm? Check out my podcast episode with their Executive Creative Director, Straith Schreder .
• Not gonna lie… I’ve been bumpin’ to this Grimes AI song:

Lastly, imma toot my own horn. Queen Charlotte came out this week, so I'm using that as an excuse to resurface my fave #womeninweb3 newsletter of all time -- Might put this one on my resume? (yes it took me a very long night, a lot of Google ole English synonym searches, and a few glasses of wine to really hone in on the voice of Lady Whistledown)

🎙 Who we’re talking to on the Weld podcast network

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Now for this week’s guest… Meet Sandy Carter , COO and Head of Business Development at Unstoppable Domains. Sandy shares what it means to be a ‘digital identity company’; the value of it and real world applications; and her journey into the web3 community. Take a listen here with host Kathryn Rickmeyer!

Have you heard of our brother podcast, Blockchain IRL?

Check out this week’s episode with Chen Zur , Partner/Principal for the US Blockchain Practice at EY.

💼 Emerging tech job openings

Looking for a blockchain recruiter? AI recruiter? A #web3 recruiter? We got you. Looking for a blockchain intern job? Salesforce blockchain jobs? web3 python roles? web3 #cybersecurity positions? We got you.

Whether you’re a candidate looking for a new career in web3, AI or emerging tech, or you’re building your team and ready to hire – get in touch! I’d love to help.

🚀 Submit your resume to job openings on the Weld Recruiting site.

+ Jobs of the week:

• Bassam Khan , head of crypto engineering at Visa, is looking for web3 devs.
• Amanda Cassatt , founder of Serotonin, needs a full stack founding engineer.
• MICHAEL FIGGE , chief creative officer at Yuga Labs, is looking for a strong pipeline technical director who knows python.

🗓 Upcoming events you’re gonna want to pencil in…

• a16z’s Arianna Simpson at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023… so now I might be too.
• Miss Consensus and have all the fomo? Me too. Fortunately, Matt Blumenfeld summed it up for us. But David Maisel did make his first public appearance since he sold Marvel to Disney 10 years ago… so I still have fomo.
• Y’all ready for VeeCon? 🎙 Zach Nadler has rallied 165 incredible speakers to Indy, including Neil Patrick Harris, Drew Barrymore, and Jessica Alba .

📰 All the #emergingtech news… (AI everything, NFT alpha, crypto updates, blockchain news, metaverse minutes + more)

• Ashton Kutcher raised a $243M investment fund in just five weeks that will focus on ‘the next absolute transformation’ in tech… aka AI.
• Speaking of AI, I’m digging how Tony Bailey added a disclaimer to his post “Is web3 fading away?”
• Max Kaufman ⚡️ did me a solid and wrapped up the latest news in gaming tech (jk he does a wrap up every week and it’s fire.)
• A new kind of window shopping… Coach’s AR try-on window will stop you in the street.
• Mastercard launched a user verification solution to fight bad actors in the space. (Bless them, considering I myself have been hacked. It’s not fun.)
• Alexis Ohanian Sr. was the only look I needed to see at the Met Gala (lies - I was on IG for way too long scrolling through all the fashun)… but he did make it web3, which I was v much here for.
• You can now pay your friend for today’s tacos and tequila in BTC (…bc Venmo just added the in-app exchange feature). Meanwhile, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey donated $10M to turn BTC into the ‘native currency of the internet’
• Sotheby’s launched their NFT marketplace, with Amazon’s not too far behind. (They’re set to launch May 15 pending no further delays.) And Prada celebrated one year since their time capsule NFT collection with its 41st drop. Anddddd Sports Illustrated launched Box Office - their NFT ticketing platform. Apparently NFTs ain’t dead yet y’all.
• For anything else, just follow Kyle Ellicott . You’ll see why.

0️⃣ A new section I like to call “web0”

• Restaurants are jumping on the subscription train… but they’re not using NFTs or blockchain (yet). It’s sort of web3 but not really web3?

That's all for now folks! Closing out with a really nice post from Jacob B. :

May will bring you DM responses, recruiter call backs, signed deals, viral posts, and fruitful connections. Let's go!

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