Thoughts on good Bay Area exits for a Sr. EM who isn’t interested in FAANG?

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It depends upon what industry and type of work. Here are some random companies I can think of: Levi’s, Ross Stores, Stitch Fix, Williams Sonoma, NVidia, Cisco, Intel, Gilead, VISA, Walmart Labs, Coinbase, Tesla etc etc

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C'mon, Walmart Labs? Really? Walmart Lab < Walmart E-commerce < Most of Bay area tech companies

Anyone suggesting you to leave bay area because of the type of companies here actually lives under a rock
Bay area has tons of companies apart from faang.
OP you should look on LinkedIn for roles you are interested in and then select the companies you are interested in. I could say join snowflake or uber but I can’t suggest a role for you

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move to nyc, not many good jobs other than faang in the bay area

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Venture capital or private equity.

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But how to get in?

FAANG is so overhyped in this group -- don't let people convince you that "there aren't good jobs outside of FAANG" in the bay area. That said, it really depends on your interests. If you're at all interested in actually building something, or assuming more meaningful leadership responsibility, there are tons of great product, Biz Ops, CoS, etc. jobs out there at startups.

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Just because they are huge doesn’t mean they’re the best. This bowl treats FAANG like the MBB of tech...which is entirely false

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Echoing C1. Unfortunately not much else.. maybe wanna start a company that’s great, and I’ll exit to you ?

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Wells Fargo

Pinterest, stripe, Airbnb

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There are so many high growth cloud application companies that I would much rather be at than FAANG right now. Adobe, Salesforce, Stripe, ServiceNow, Twilio, etc. Higher growth, better cultures, no nation wide lawsuits 😂

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Strongly disagree

Genentech?

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DoorDash, Uber, Lyft

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Twitch, discord, Adobe, zynga

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Healthcare companies like Genentech?

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There are a lot of options. Maybe take some time to think about what you enjoy doing wrt work then search LinkedIn/Indeed/Angel List for specific roles. Also check out LinkedIn to look at the profiles of people you know in roles that interest you.

Are you interested in Tech? A lot of late stage start ups or recent IPOs as folks have been listing

Charles Schwab. Mckesson. Salesforce.

Do you not want to be in tech? Because there’s literally hundreds of non FAANG tech companies out there

Start with the QQQ index holdings and work your way from position 6 and beyond.

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