SATURDAY · 16 MAY · 8:00 AEST

Good morning, Holly.

8 sourcing pipelines ran overnight. Three meetings today, and a candidate offer Signed. 🔥

Week ahead

May 18 — 22, 2025

11 meetings · 3 deadlines

MON18

TUE19

WED20

THU21

FRI22

10a

11a

12p

Marcus screen

Retell

10a – 11a

Vasu sync

Decagon

2p – 3p

Clarion onsite prep

w/ Anna

11a – 1p

Lena debrief

Clarion

9a – 10a

Sourcing review

1p – 2p

Sam intro

Omnea

4p – 5p

Decagon Q2 plan

QBR

2p – 4p

Slate due — Clarion

11a – 12p

Invoice run

3p – 4p

Your book · Q2

$168K of $320K

Placed $104K Likely $64K

Retell · Ravi K.$42K

Decagon · Tom R.$38K

Giga · Cara L.$26K

NEW HITS

6 high signal

PROMISES DUE

1 overdue · 2 today

REPLIES WAITING

2 drafts ready

CALLS TODAY

Briefs ready 10am

Needs you today

Send Retell JD to Marcus Chen

Promised 4 Feb · overdue 2 days · Granola: 'send Tuesday latest'

Need 1 more candidate for Clarion by Friday

2 in pipeline · 3 promised · slot won't stay open past next sprint

Decagon raised Series B yesterday

HM Vasu will be expanding · last touch 12d ago · check-in drafted

Sourced overnight

3 of 47 shown

Priya Raghavan● OpenA · 96Retell · FDE #4

Ex-Anthropic infra, scaled Notion's data platform 5x. Posted yesterday about leaving big-co — 412 reactions, replying to founder DMs.

Jamie O'Connor● WarmA · 91Omnea · Founding Eng

Founding eng at Sourcegraph, just shipped cody-eval. 2nd-degree warm via James Liu who you placed at Decagon last September.

Devon Park● Just hiredA · 89

Staff at Linear · payments. Signed a Series B offer last week per LinkedIn. Move to Q3 revisit pile — worth circling back when honeymoon ends.

Outstanding

5 ITEMS · $52K AT RISK

INV-0039 · Clarion$18,000 · 12d overdue

INV-0041 · Omnea$14,000 · due tomorrow

Promise to Marcus — JD send2d overdue

Promise to Vasu — feedback round 2due today

Reference check — Tom R. (Decagon)blocking offer

Marcus Chen

● ActiveSenior FDE · A-tier

Staff Engineer · Stripe · San Francisco · last touch 4d ago via Granola

Overview

Signals3

Threads

Submissions

Outreach

WHY HE MATCHES

Staff engineer with six years at Stripe across Payments Infrastructure and Treasury, scaled the ledger to handle 40M+ daily transactions, and previously built the data platform at Segment from 8 engineers to 30. Systems thinker with a shipped track record on high-stakes infra — the kind of engineer Series A AI companies hire as employee #5 to #15 to own a vertical.

RECENT SIGNALS

Shipped ledger-rs rewrite to production

Rust port of core ledger · 40M txns/day · 3 days ago

Posted about leaving big-co for early-stage

'The reps-per-week ratio at a 5-person startup is unmatchable' · 412 reactions · 11d

Granola: 'reach back out in Q2'

4 Feb call · comp $220–260 + 0.4–0.6% · 4d ago

LOGISTICS

LocationSan Francisco

Comp$220–260 + 0.4–0.6%

StageSeries A/B, ≤30 people

Notice4 weeks

Work authUS citizen

IN PIPELINE FOR

Retell · FDE #4

Phone screen

Decagon · Sr SWE

Sourced