[hackNY News] 2025 Fellowship Weekly – Jul 28
It’s hard to believe we’re already in the last week of the summer program! There’s no shortage of goings-on to attend:
This evening is the Women & Enbies dinner. (RSVPs have closed.)
Tuesday, join a talk with Hursh Agrawal, co-founder of The Browser Company.
Wednesday, join a talk with Kunal Batra about how to make tech money work for you.
Thursday – most importantly – join us for Demo Day as we celebrate the fellows and the end of their fellowship!
More details under Upcoming events below. First, a recap.
⏪ What happened last week?
Last weekend, a group of fellows went river rafting. It could’ve been a tranquil journey, but everyone knew what to do with the provided buckets. 😉
In the Speaker Series, fellows heard from Major League Hacking co-founders Mike Swift and Jon Gottfried on Tuesday, followed by Partiful product engineer Yefim Vedernikoff on Thursday about how their growing startup prioritizes and ships features.
📸 Photo of the Week
Congrats to Suchi (h’25) for Photo of the Week, captured while biking around Governors Island!
Winners of the photo of the week are pulled from the 2025 Fellowship Album and win a silly 3D printed prize from Shy! Submit your photos to the album (including alumNY) to be considered.
⏩ Upcoming events
🚀 Demo Day
Last reminder to RSVP to Demo Day this Thursday! Join the class of ‘25 as they share what they did and learned this summer, and welcome them to the community of alumNY.
Bring your friends! Zoom will be available for those not in NYC.
Hursh Agrawal @ The Browser Company
This Tuesday, join fellows for a chat with The Browser Company co-founder and CTO Hursh Agrawal. Their company built the much-beloved Arc Browser and are now working on a new "AI native" browser called Dia.
Hursh will discuss the company’s approach building consumer products that users love, the unique software they've pioneered to do rapid cross-platform browser development, and the future of web browsers in the evolving landscape of AI.
How tech money works for you w/ Kunal Batra
This Wednesday, join fellows for a talk at Spotify office with Kunal Batra, Senior Developer Advocate at Datadog. Kunal will explain what you should be doing with your money once you start receiving those paychecks. He’ll get into detail on both general personal finance advice and tech-specific considerations, like why stock options may not be as great as startups want you to believe.
Highly recommended for recent alumNY and anyone who wants a better understanding of how money works.
🌟 Slack channel of the week
💸 #personal-finance: Keeping in the theme of Wednesday’s talk, making the most of your monies is important!
Join this channel to learn and discuss financial advice on how to not do stupid things with your hard-earned cash but instead actually do the best things for your personal goals. :)
See you next week,
Jamie & Harrison