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Issue #92 (11 Mar) – 20+ jobs; last Kleinanzeigen; "Vulkangruppe" strikes again; living on DB trains; 37 pieces of career advice; memberships worth having; HelloFresh -40%.
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Several gradual changes are coming to the newsletter itself: I’ll do everything to make it shorter and more relevant. This is the last week of Kleinazeigen in this format.
🌟 Handpicked Kleinanzeigen & Tech Events
🎪 Events:
- The Future of Work: The 4-Day Workweek | Wed, 13.3 at 18.30 | Thoughtswork
- Women in Marketing: Sip, Connect, Learn by Femme Palette | Wed, 19.3 at 18.00 | Find your wine match
- Speed Networking for Berlin Tech Professionals | Mon, 18.3 at 18.30 | w3.hub
😎 Cool thing:
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🎉 I have two free tickets (€199) for Freelance Unlocked, 15. & 16.5 in Berlin!
”It’s Germany's only conference for better freelancing. We bring together more than 500 freelancers and over 40 speakers for two days to help freelancers get better at what they are doing. Whether it is improving your sales & marketing, redefining your professional development, hacking all the admin work, or improving your work health.”
To enter the Saturday raffle, reply to this email or, if reading online, send me an email. Results next week.
🔍 Searching for roles/freelance gig:
- Martin is looking for freelance jobs as a data engineer. He has experience building and maintaining data platforms and works with Python, Airflow, DBT, GCP, AWS, Bigquery, Snowflake, ETL, and devOps.
- Samata 🙋🏻♀️ an MBA student at HWR Berlin with 7+ years in marketing, is looking for a product management or marketing role (internship or working student). She launched a new dining category in 20 cities for Swiggy, India’s leading food and grocery delivery platform.
- Estela: Graphic designer with eight years of keen eye for type+editorial+branding, eager to hear about your project and shape a handpicked scope.
👀 Handpicked twenty-something
📨 HR going the extra mile & readers submitted
💾 On rotation this week: Tech & Dev
- Nvidia - Healthcare Computing Developer Technology Engineer
- Preply - Senior Analytics Engineer | Paid relocation to Barcelona, Spain
- Klarna - Senior Application Security Engineer
- Snowflake - Senior Database Security Engineer
- 🇩🇪 DigitalService - Senior Product Manager
More positions (also outside rotation) in Handpicked online database.
🗞 Top inspiration snippets
🍽️ Dinner with Nathan
I met Nathan, editor-in-chief of @Berlinfoodstories, after he grilled my jerk chicken for Canada Day. I think I impressed him with my MK4 Thermapen. Anyway, he knows his way around food, and we’re experimenting a bit with a new segment… three restaurant tips from a kenner: this time for the cool kids.
“Are you ready to feel confident recommending the coolest restaurants in the city to your new friends in Berlin, or finally be the first to offer a suggestion to your new Hinge connection instead of just saying, “you know, wherever you like to eat…” You’re better than that. We’re better than that. Here we go:
- Maiyarap - For the aspiring, scrappy Klub Kid wearing flame shades purchased in Dong Xuan Center, the Tossakan crew brings the heat at their most recent foray south of the river - get there before the masses take it over this summer with lines longer than Kitty.
- Trio - Maybe you’ve recently had your first back injury (it’s better now), and you’re ready to feel fully adult, but with a little goddamn style. Look no further than an evening at Trio, with elegant German Hausmannskost served by the loveliest floor staff this side of the Rhine.
- Hallmann & Klee - You don’t sweat it when Frau Netto is ringing you up anymore, and you’ve got your Miete on auto-withdrawal. You can’t remember the last time you asked your partner or a date a request to split the bill, and it’s time to flex a bit. Take her to Hallmann & Klee and have your cumulative minds blown by their exquisite service and phenomenal care with their ingredients.
If you want to be extra slick, you can also get a BFS voucher.
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🇩🇪 Berlin & Other good stuff
- 🎥 Cinema recommendations: Dune: Part two. Big fan of Villeneuve, but I think The Zone of Interest is even better. Getting that Yorck pass!
- We still have some space in our experimental smartphone screen time-reducing Byteback Network.
- Tesla says the sabotage by the left-wing militant group “Vulkangruppe“ will amount to damages in “a high nine-figure sum”. Experts dismissed the number. The fire on the electricity pylon also affected the deliveries of veggies and other produce to Berlin supermarkets, so it felt like pandemic times again. “Vulkangruppe” has been active since 2018, but I couldn’t find any website. (source: all German media)
- Which is the most common street name in Berlin? 12x Waldstraße, 10x Lindenstraße. It’s because Berlin grew into neighbouring towns and villages. (RBB Instagram)
- A teenager has been living on DB trains and made rounds in the media again. I knew a guy who commuted to Stuttgart from Berlin and lived in a shithole WG but paid a premium gym membership and spent a lot of time there.
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In honour of the 8th of March, two infographics:
Meanwhile, in the US, blonde privilege? “In the US, 5% of women are blonde. Among female CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, 48% are blonde”. (Twitter)
- How is it possible to sell your startup for half a billion and get nothing? It’s because of liquidation preference, as many founders, employees or angel investors learn the hard way. The last in line!
- 37 Pieces of Career Advice I Wish I’d Known Earlier from Ryan Holiday. I liked this one: 9. When you’re lacking motivation, remind yourself: discipline now, freedom later. The labor will pass, and the rewards will last.
- Nobody cares what you do is a 1:54 min YT video about the spotlight effect. The guy shaved his head, and after 10 minutes, nobody cared anymore. Useful and uplifting.
- Reddit choice of the week is a list of memberships worth having. Library is a great idea!
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💬 Briefly:
- 😔 Bad news: Twinner (Halle, car scanners) liquidated.
- Orderbird (Berlin) took over Split; Razor Group (Berlin) acquired US-based Perch.
- 1Komma5° (Hamburg) got a new investor, a US pension fund. Investment details are unknown.
- In February 2024, consumer prices in Berlin rose by 2.0% compared to February last year. These are the lowest inflation rates since summer 2021. (St. BB)
- HelloFresh expects slower growth and less profit: the stock was down by around 40% last week.
- Solarisbank got fined €6.5M by BaFin for late AML reporting and lost another Visa-card partner, Grover.
- Aldi Süd is heavily investing in the US and will open 800 new stores by 2028. Careers.
- Lufthansa made an operating profit of just under €2.7B in 2023. Careers.
- Jan Marsalek, Chief
OperatingFraud Officer of the defunct Wirecard, was a GRU spy. - Easyjet will start offering five new destinations from BER: Bordeaux, Toulouse-Blagnac, Salerno, Izmir and Antalya.
- Apple got fined over €1.84B by the European Commission over Spotify's antitrust case.
💸 Recently funded in Berlin & Germany
- INSRD | Berlin | Adaptive insurance for emerging industries | €500K pre-seed | No careers.
- Sunfire | Dresden | Electrolysis technology for hydrogen production | €315M | Careers.
- Phelas | Munich | Electric storage solutions | €4.1M seed | Careers.
- Protein Distillery | Esslingen and Berlin | Sustainable food technologies using beer yeast for protein powder | €15M | Careers.
- Greenlyte Carbon Technologies | Essen | Advancing carbon cycle economy | €10.5M | Careers.
- Deep Care | Ludwigsburg | Smart solutions for workplace and health safety using AI | undisclosed | Careers.
- atmio | Hamburg | Methane leak detection and repair for the gas industry | €1.3M | Careers.
- Vitas | Nuremberg | No-code platform for AI-based telephone assistants | €3.1M | Careers.
😅 Meanwhile
we’re tech CEOs (Twitter video)
✌️ Handpicked essentials:
- Signing a new employment contract in Germany? Read this before.
- Don’t make these mistakes with your side hustle!
- 🚨 Participate: Berlin Salary Trends Report 2024 🚨
- The best questions to ask at a job interview- Write it down now! Or why you should journal at work?
- What do hiring managers look for in CVs?
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