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50+ High Growth Companies to Launch Your Career With One of the most challenging aspects of growing up is figuring out how and where to spend your time. The world of “career advice” is incredibly noisy. Professors, friends, parents, irrelevant medium authors — everyone is telling you what you should and should not be doing with your life. The good news → You get to decide how and where to spend your time. The other goods news is that the world is increasingly massive…and there are so many exciting things you could do…infinite places you could go and learn… it is your life! But why do we graduate from college and settle for conventional jobs that do not unlock our real potential? — Kevin Hartz I put together this list of high-potential opportunities for people (of all ages!) who are interested in leveraging technology as a vehicle for high-velocity change and impact. what I think to be The list spans companies of all sizes tackling all sorts of problems (Finance, Healthcare, Social, Construction, etc.). Hopefully this list can be helpful as you make your next move! A few notes/disclaimers: Be sure to make your own judgements with any of the opportunities presented here and recognize that this list is not “an official ranking” of any sorts. It is not “backed by data” or any hard metrics whatsoever. This list is by no means de facto or comprehensive. Feel free to disagree with and question everything :) This is just one of many resources — be sure to also check out & . StartupSift Breakout List You will notice that many of these companies may or may not be hiring for your “specific role.” Others have thousands and thousands of hungry applicants. That is okay! You may have to cold email, create a position, or find other unique ways to stand out. You can do it! have thoughts? need help? i'd love to chat :) message me on twitter or here - jordan gonen 🌊 And without further ado…here is… The Signal: 50+ High Growth Companies to Launch Your Career With 🚀 (late 2018) Finance Blend (disclaimer: I interned at Blend) Blend’s technology empowers top mortgage lenders to be more efficient, compliant, and borrower-friendly. Brex Corporate cards for startups. Online application, no personal guarantee, no security deposit required, and built for modern businesses. Powered by the Visa network. Carta Carta helps private companies, public companies, investors, and employees manage their cap tables, valuations, portfolio investments, and equity plans. Cash Square is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology. Square Cash is their mobile app (a Venmo competitor)…“the easiest way to send and receive money on the fly.” Coinbase Coinbase is an online platform that allows merchants, consumers, and traders to transact with digital currency. It allows its users to create their own bitcoin wallets and start buying or selling bitcoins by connecting with their bank accounts. Even “How busy people master their money.” We partner with employers to offer Even as a benefit so that employees can get paid on demand. Paystack Modern online and offline payments for Africa. Shogun Shogun Enterprises is a financial technology platform for home improvement. Stripe Stripe is the best software platform for running an internet business. They handle billions of dollars every year for forward-thinking businesses around the world. Titan The modern investment firm committed to exceptional returns and advisory through actively managed portfolios. Life is not a dress rehearsal — this is probably it. Make it count. Time is extremely limited and goes by fast. Do what makes you happy and fulfilled — few people get remembered hundreds of years after they die anyway. — Sam Altman Insurance / Legal Atrium Atrium builds products and services to help automate legal workflows, innovate new processes, and help firms identify new clients. ClearCover Clearcover is the smarter car insurance choice, offering better coverage for less money. DoNotPay DoNotPay is an online robot lawyer that allows anyone to automatically claim asylum in the U.S, U.K, and Canada for free. Lemonade Lemonade offers homeowners and renters insurance powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics. Newfront Newfront is the modern commercial insurance brokerage. No 20-page applications, confusing policy terms, or painful renewal cycles. Newfront’s experienced brokers and technology remove the headache from business insurance. Root Root is a mobile-first insurance carrier that uses an app to rate drivers based primarily on how they actually drive — not who they are. “It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.” — Sheryl Sandberg HR Gusto Gusto provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses. Humu Humu is a human resource company that makes work better through science and machine learning. Rippling Rippling provides cloud-based employee management solutions, from HR (payroll, benefits, compliance) to IT (computers, software, security). Truework Truework is an HR tool that automatically responds to lenders, landlords, and others who need to verify employment. Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think. — Taleb Healthcare / Biology Basis Basis is an app that allows people to deal and cope with mental health issues and offers same-day access to trained specialists. CoFactor Genomics The Leaders in RNA. Harness the power of multidimensional gene expression models to treat cancer more effectively. Forward Forward provides you with personalized primary care, combining world-class doctors with advanced medical technology including genetics, cancer screening & wellness tracking. Gyroscope Gyroscope is a new OS for the human body, with an app and website for people to view their health analytics. Hims Hims is an e-commerce wellness brand made for men with products for skin care, erectile dysfunction, and hair loss. They work with doctors to prescribe Finasteride and Sildenafil (active ingredient in Viagra) through the app or website. MDAcne MDacne is a mobile platform that uses AI and computer vision to help people with acne. Ro Ro is a mission-driven healthcare technology company that handles everything from online diagnosis to the delivery of medication. Synthego Founded by former SpaceX engineers, Synthego is a leading provider of genome engineering solutions. Their flagship product, CRISPRevolution, is a portfolio of synthetic RNA designed for CRISPR genome editing and research. Zipline Zipline builds products that improve access to healthcare and saves lives. I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough. — Marissa Meyer Food Cloud Kitchens Powering the on-demand food economy. They provide infrastructure and software that enables food operators to open delivery-only locations with minimal capital expenditure and time. Full Harvest Full Harvest helps growers get the most out of a harvest and food companies save money by bringing farm excess to market. They are a B2B platform connecting large farms to food businesses to sell significantly discounted, yet perfectly good surplus and imperfectly shaped produce that would have otherwise gone to waste. Impossible Impossible Foods develops a new generation of meats and cheeses made entirely from plants. They select specific proteins and nutrients from greens, seeds, and grains to recreate the experience of meats and dairy products. Uber Eats (disclaimer: I interned at Uber) Uber Eats is a food delivery platform that makes getting great food from a favorite local restaurants as easy as requesting a ride. Sensei SENSEI is here to guide you towards greater wellbeing. Their ecosystem of products and experiences is designed with one intention: to empower you to grow well. “Two ways to be successful in life: do something worth writing about or write something worth reading.” — Ben Franklin Government Anduril Anduril commits top technical talent to solving the most complex national security challenges. They’re building the next generation of technology that will aid and protect those who serve on the front lines defending the nation and its interests. Citizen The need has never been greater for technology that informs and protects the public. The Citizen app empowers people with information to help keep their families, communities, and cities safe. Users receive instant notifications every time a crime or other major incident is reported near them. Coord Coord is a mobility company that creates seamless mobility and self-driving experiences today through deep integrations. They offer bike-share API, Curbs API, Tolls API, Routing API and etc. Sidewalk Labs Sidewalk Labs is a new type of company that works with cities to build products addressing big urban problems. They’re building a platform and a set of urban applications to accelerate innovation in cities around the world. Whenever you find a barrel , you should hire them instantly, regardless of whether you have money for them or whether you have a role for them. Just close them. — Keith Rabois Logistics Convoy Convoy is a network of tech-enabled trucking companies transforming the $800B trucking industry and logistics ecosystem for truck drivers and shippers. Using technology, Convoy matches reliable trucks (“carriers”) with companies that need to ship freight. Flexport At Flexport, they believe that a world that does business together is a better one. It’s called global trade. And freight forwarding is the $1 trillion industry that functions as the circulatory system of global trade — without freight forwarding, global trade simply wouldn’t exist. Nabis Nabis delivers the most reliable, consistent, and secure logistics solution for cannabis businesses. Whether you are a brand, cultivator, intermediary processor, or final good manufacturer, Nabis provides you with access to an enterprise-scale distribution network. Nuro NURO is a technology company which aims to accelerate the benefits of robotics for everyday life. They are a team of entrepreneurs and engineers, designers, and scientists who believe the advancements they are making in robotics and machine learning today will dramatically improve the way they live tomorrow. Rubicon Rubicon Global is a technology company that provides waste, recycling, and smart city solutions to businesses and governments worldwide. They develop and deploys a full suite of cloud-based solutions to help its customers and network of independent waste haulers work towards more sustainable waste and recycling practices, uncover cost savings, and improve operations through data analytics. Uber for Business (disclaimer: I interned at Uber) Get an all-in-one solution that simplifies how businesses gets around. It’s a digital “headquarters” for all your company’s ground transportation. Get a clear view into all your trip activity and automate billing, expensing, and reporting. Easily provide rides — even multiple rides at the same time — to anyone important to your business. Uber Freight (disclaimer: I interned at Uber) Uber Freight is an app that matches carriers with shippers. Carriers can just tap a button and instantly book a load, and the price you see is the price you get — no more back-and-forth negotiations. Make friends over the internet with people who are great at things you’re interested in. The internet is one of the biggest advantages you have over prior generations. Leverage it. — Patrick Collison Real Estate / Construction Buildzoom BuildZoom has a simple purpose: to help you find the perfect contractor for any job — commercial or residential. Using BuildZoom is just like asking a neighbor for a recommendation — except instead of just asking one, you are polling every neighbor in your community, analyzing their feedback, exhaustively researching work histories and credentials and only then, making a final decision. Bungalow Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States. Opendoor Opendoor makes it possible to receive an offer on a home in just a few clicks, and sell in a matter of days, removing all of the headaches, uncertainties, and risks from the transaction. They are headquartered in San Francisco, California and has received a total of $645 million in venture funding from Khosla Ventures, GGV Capital, and Access… Qualia Qualia is a cloud-based closing platform that provides seamless and secure coordination between everyone involved in the real estate closing process. Wanderjaunt WanderJaunt offers technology-enabled property management solutions for travelers, homeowners, and accommodations from around the world. And then the last piece is actually the hardest, which is specific knowledge. Specific knowledge is knowledge that you have that lets you do something that other people do not know how to do and cannot be trained to do. — Naval Ravikant Education / Life / Talent Holloway With hundreds of hours of research, writing, and editing, their comprehensive Guides help you make better decisions. Hatch Baby Their mission is to bring parents a series of smart products that use technology and user-centric design to help make caring for a baby a little easier. Lambda School Lambda School trains people to be software engineers for free in exchange for a share of future income. Pioneer A home for the ambitious outsiders of the world. They’re building a community of creative young people working on interesting projects around the globe. TripleByte Triplebyte believes the current technical hiring process doesn’t do enough to help engineers show their strengths. They’re dedicated to building a better process. You can read more about their views on hiring in their manifesto. 70MillionJobs 70MillionJobs is the first for-profit employment job board for people with criminal records. “Everyone starts out with very, very humble beginnings” — Daniel Gross Social / Consumer Brandless Brandless is an e-commerce company providing unbranded and essential products. Jumprope Create and share recipe how-to’s. Export to Instagram Stories, IGTV, YouTube, your personal website and more. Masterclass MasterClass is a premier online education platform redefining the digital learning experience by bringing world-class experts and renowned instructors to students globally through a cutting-edge technology platform meant to distill knowledge and create meaningful experiences through online video. Sandbox VR Sandbox VR combines the latest VR hardware, movie quality real-time motion capture and AAA-quality content experiences to create the best VR experiences on the planet. Period. It’s the perfect event for team building, corporate events, and parties. People always say you should live your life as if it were your last day. I think you should live your life as though it will go on for ever; that every day is so good that you don’t want it to end. — Peter Thiel Dev Augur Augur is built on Ethereum, a decentralized blockchain network similar to the Bitcoin network. Utilizing this technology, their markets can effectively eliminate counterparty risk and centralized servers while creating a global market by employing cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. Clearbit Clearbit develops business Intelligence APIs. Clearbit is on a mission to set the new standard in business data. Simply put — Clearbit is changing how modern businesses source and operationalize data as part of their sales, marketing, and product workflows. Deepgram Deepgram saves businesses time and money by building tailored speech recognition models that increase revenue and maximize productivity. Handshake Decentralized certificate authority and naming. VectorDash Vectordash lets you use insanely fast cloud GPUs at incredibly low costs. You can start a powerful GPU instance within seconds. The world is an incredibly complex place and everything is changing all the time. You can’t plan your career because you have no idea what’s going to happen in the future. You have no idea what industries you’ll enter, what companies you’ll work for, what roles you’ll have, where you’ll live, or what you will ultimately contribute to the world. You’ll change, industries will change, the world will change, and you can’t possibly predict any of it. — Marc Andreessen SaaS Tools Density Density is a modern infrastructure for anonymously counting people. Front Front redefines work communication with the first shared inbox for teams. By unifying your email, customer communication channels, and apps in one platform, Front helps teams collaborate efficiently and have more context and visibility into every conversation, to work faster and better together. Fullstory FullStory takes a fundamentally different approach to understanding your customer experience. One tiny script unlocks pixel-perfect playback, automatic insights, funnel analytics, and robust search and segmentation — all without the need to manually tag your site’s code. Openphone OpenPhone adds a second phone number on top of one’s existing mobile device with powerful features to help business stand out. Mixmax Mixmax offers software that enables its users to boost their productivity. It enables its users to track emails accurately, set up meetings in an instant, save time with email templates, and schedule emails to be sent later. Notion All-in-one workspace. Write, plan, collaborate, and get organized. Notion is all you need — in one tool. Superhuman Superhuman is not just another email client. They are rebuilding the inbox from the ground up to make you brilliant at what you do. They specifically designed it for those of you who want the best. Miscellaneous 100 Thieves 368 Aero Angel List Apple Health Atoms b8ta Culdesac Deos Houseparty Neon Panda Saildrone Social Construct Substack Transmission Ttyl Urbit have thoughts? need help? i'd love to chat :)

message me on twitter or here - jordan gonen 🌊 Hope this was valuable! If you enjoyed, please share and hit recommend 💙 Company descriptions are from . Crunchbase.com Thanks Jonathan Z. White & David Lee for feedback/edits.

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Since being back in 2009, has become one of the most popular databases of choice for developers over the past decade.  While many technologists have likely gravitated to it as a solution due to its open source roots and that it's rooted in the relational database world, that really only begins to scratch the surface of what MariaDB has to offer. forked from MySQL MariaDB It's no secret that over the years, MariaDB has added many features and functionality that have set it apart from other database solutions, but what developers may not know is that there are two groups actively contributing to the ever advancing code base; MariaDB Foundation and MariaDB Corporation. is the custodian of the MariaDB community code and guardian of the MariaDB community and the open source principles that have propelled it to being one of the most popular databases in the world. MariaDB Foundation contributes to the community codebase as well, but also provides superior quality, enterprise grade products that thrusts MariaDB into the forefront of database vendors. MariaDB Corporation even offers and based solutions, but I digress. MariaDB Corporation columnar HTAP With that in mind, I've written this short walkthrough to provide a launchpad for you to get started using MariaDB with and (with the help of ), within a matter of minutes, so you can check things out for yourself. Docker Python Flask Requirements Before jumping into code, you're going to need to make sure you have a few things on your machine: MariaDB client Docker (v. 3+) Python MariaDB Connector/C (v. 3.1.5+) Using a MariaDB Docker Container To pull the and spin up a container simply open a terminal window and run the following: MariaDB Server image $ docker run -p 3306:3306 -d --name mariadb -eMARIADB_ROOT_PASSWORD=Password123! mariadb/server:10.4 The previous command will spin up a MariaDB Server container that you can connect to and communicate with using the . MariaDB client While you can certainly use a variety of other SQL clients, for the sake of keeping things simple and uniform, I've only included samples using the official MariaDB client. Connect to your MariaDB instance by executing the following command in a terminal window. $ mariadb --host 127.0.0.1 -P 3306 --user root -pPassword123! You should see something like the following, which means you've successfully connected to the MariaDB instance! Next, create a new database. demo; CREATE DATABASE Then create a new table. demo.people ( ( )); CREATE TABLE name VARCHAR 50 Finally, insert a couple records. demo.people ( ), ( ), ( ), ( ); INSERT INTO VALUES 'rob' 'tracy' 'sam' 'duke' Getting Started with MariaDB Connector/Python Now that you've downloaded, installed, and stood up a MariaDB database (using Docker), you're ready to put it to use within a new Python app. Recently, announced the availability of beta! Connector/Python enables Python programs to access MariaDB databases using an API that is compliant with the Python DB API 2.0 (PEP-249). MariaDB MariaDB Connector/Python MariaDB developers chose to optimize performance of the new connector by writing it in C which allowed them the ability to leverage the MariaDB Connector/C client library for client-server communication. To use the new MariaDB Python connector, you'll also need to . install MariaDB Connector/C (v3.1.5+) Set up and activate a virtual environment A virtual environment is a directory tree which contains Python executable files and other files which indicate that it is a virtual environment. Basically, it's the backbone for running your Python Flask app. Creation of is done by executing the following command: virtual environments $ pyvenv venv pyvenv is only available in Python 3.4 or later. For older versions please use the tool. Tip: virtualenv Before you can start installing or using packages in your virtual environment, you’ll need to it. Activating a virtual environment will put the virtual environment-specific and executables into your shell’s PATH. activate python pip Activate the virtual environment using the following command: $ . venv/bin/activate activate Create a Flask application is a micro web framework written in Python. It is classified as a because it does not require particular tools or libraries. Flask microframework TL;DR (if I am even allowed to do that for two sentences), it's a great, lightweight framework to use for an API. First, install Flask. $ pip3 install flask Then create a new file called that will be used to create a new Flask app and add the following code: api.py , flask app = flask.Flask(__name__)
app.config[ ] = app.run() # import necessary packages import # create the flask app "DEBUG" True @app.route('/', methods=['GET']) : def index () return 'Success!' # run the app What you have now is the foundation for an extremely simple API. You can test it out by running the app and testing the endpoint. To create an instance, it has to be give a name. Using (__name__) ensures that it can be started as an application or imported as a module. The use of the decorator lets our flask app know which URL should trigger the corresponding method. route() You're ready to run the app. $ python3 api.py By default, the app will start running on port 5000. You can test the results by requesting data from . http://localhost:5000 Integrate with MariaDB Once you've created a simple Flask application, you're ready to add code to integrate with MariaDB. Start by installing the MariaDB Python connector. $ pip3 install mariadb Open and add code to import the MariaDB and packages directly under the Flask package import. api.py, JSON import json
import mariadb Next, add a configuration object with the connection information for your running MariaDB instance. config = { : , : , : , : , : } 'host' '127.0.0.1' 'port' 3306 'user' 'root' 'password' 'Password123!' 'database' 'demo' The object will be used within a new route method block to connect to MariaDB. config conn = mariadb.connect(**config) cur = conn.cursor() cur.execute( ) row_headers=[x[ ] x cur.description]
   rv = cur.fetchall()
   json_data=[] result rv:
        json_data.append(dict(zip(row_headers,result))) json.dumps(json_data) # route to return all people @app.route('/api/people', methods=['GET']) : def index () # connection for MariaDB # create a connection cursor # execute a SQL statement "select * from people" # serialize results into JSON 0 for in for in # return the results! return Bringing it all together, your content should look like the following: api.py flask json mariadb

app = flask.Flask(__name__)
app.config[ ] = config = { : , : , : , : , : } conn = mariadb.connect(**config) cur = conn.cursor() cur.execute( ) row_headers=[x[ ] x cur.description]
   rv = cur.fetchall()
   json_data=[] result rv:
        json_data.append(dict(zip(row_headers,result))) json.dumps(json_data)

app.run() # import the necessary packages import import import "DEBUG" True # configuration used to connect to MariaDB 'host' '127.0.0.1' 'port' 3306 'user' 'root' 'password' 'Password123!' 'database' 'demo' # route to return all people @app.route('/api/people', methods=['GET']) : def index () # connection for MariaDB # create a connection cursor # execute a SQL statement "select * from people" # serialize results into JSON 0 for in for in # return the results! return Testing it out Start the app. $ python3 api.py Then test the endpoint. This can be done through a variety of techniques (e.g. directly within a browser, , etc.). people Postman For instance, considering using a command: curl $ curl http://localhost:5000/api/people Which yields the following JSON response payload: [{ : },{ : },{ : },{ : }] "name" "rob" "name" "tracy" "name" "duke" "name" "sam" Just the beginning Hopefully this short walkthrough has helped you get started using MariaDB with Docker, Python and Flask. And, yea, this was a very simple example, but it only gets more exciting from here! I highly recommend that you check out all of what MariaDB has to offer and how you can use a truly innovative database to create modern applications.

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