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How to Get Hired at an AI Startup

Hosted by Ty Dunn and Emmanuel Paraskakis

Wed, Nov 19, 2025

5:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)

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Build AI-Ready APIs
Emmanuel Paraskakis
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What you'll learn

Understand the Founder Mindset

Learn how founders evaluate talent & product sense and why some candidates immediately stand out.

Spot Emerging Roles in AI

Understand how AI startups redefine the boundaries between Product, Engineering, and Platform roles.

Position Yourself as a Multiplier

Discover how to present your experience so founders see you as someone who amplifies team impact, not just fills a role.

Navigate Early-Stage Environments

Get strategies for thriving in the ambiguity, speed, and experimentation that define successful AI startups.

Chart Your Career Path

Walk away with practical frameworks for deciding whether to join, lead, or found in the AI startup ecosystem.

Why this topic matters

Ever wondered what founders really look for when building their team? Join us for a candid conversation on what it takes to stand out and succeed in the world of AI startups. You’ll get an inside look at how platform and technical product roles are evolving, how founders think about hiring and culture fit, and what skills set apart PMs and engineers who thrive in high-velocity AI companies.

You'll learn from

Ty Dunn

Co-founder & CPO @ Continue (YC S23)

Ty Dunn is the Co-founder and CPO of Continue. Backed by Heavybit and Y Combinator, Continue enables developers to ship faster with Continuous AI and is on a mission to ensure developers are amplified, not automated.

While studying the intersection of language and computation at the University of Michigan, Ty built dialogue management systems as a software engineer. Motivated to make them leverage machine learning more, he grew from the first product manager to a Group PM at Rasa, where his open-source agent framework during the GPT-2 and GPT-3 era had millions of downloads, 20k stars on GitHub, and was used by ~10% of the Fortune 500.

Emmanuel Paraskakis

Founder, Level 250 | 3x VP, API Products

I’m Emmanuel, an entrepreneur, product management executive, and consultant at Level 250 with over 15 years of experience shaping API products.

I’ve led large API programs in fintech for VeriskMoody’s, and Precisely, and served as VP of Product for some of the world’s most influential API tools—like API Blueprint at Apiary (550,000+ APIs), Oracle’s first Cloud-Native API Gateway, and Swagger at SmartBear (750,000+ APIs).

Over the years, I’ve consulted with everyone from Fortune 500 CEOs to startup founders, engaging with thousands of API providers and consumers to help them build winning products and exceptional developer experiences.

My passion is to make APIs more impactful and developer-friendly, which is why I created API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs: to share my lessons learned and help Product Managers fast-track their careers.

Join me to gain practical insights, avoid common pitfalls, and learn how to deliver API Products that enable great user experiences—without repeating the mistakes I’ve already made along the way.

Previously at

Verisk
Moodys
Oracle
SmartBear
Precisely

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