a.p.c.
American Politics Company
This is the public landing page for our venture to fix American politics.
Welcome! Our vision is to fix American politics!
Questions, ideas, feedback, support, criticism?
- Email: barak@americanpolitics.co
- Personal: barakgila.com, calllist.app/barak, four-oh-eight 859 sixty twentyfour
About the team (Join us!)
Current team
1. Barak
- Background: bay area native, berkeley/affirm-educated, software engineer, startup connoisseur, and political junkie
- Hats: CEO, ops, finance/revenue, product, back office …
2. Contractors (~4, part-time)
You?
- Our current min rate is $50/hr for contractors and $100k/year total comp for full-time. Double that for technical folks.
- Must be SF, NY, or DC-based. SF preferred, NY ok for product, design, and eng.
Most high-priority skills we need for the team
- Marketing / advertising
- A creative director for the ad agency side of the business
- At the beginning, you’ll be critical in making killer, edgy, fun, controversial ads
- You’ll also shape our ad generator product and be the point of contact with external folks in the advertising / marketing worlds
- PDE
- Ops
- You can code in SQL and Python (at least a little)
- You’re an organized, detail-oriented fiend
- You can do anything (recruiting, ops, accounting, finance, etc), perhaps after teaching yourself or asking for help
- Well-connected political types
- Ideally think-tank / neoliberal / nonpartisan background, but flexible
- Should understand how one or more of Washington, Sacramento, NYC, SF, etc. work
- Should be familiar with Citizens United, Scalia, Matt Yglesias; be concerned about political polarization, etc
How else you can help
We’re willing to bootstrap, but getting capital and help from angels and VCs will help us build the platform faster. 👼
- do you have anything you want to advertise in San Francisco?
- do you want to join the team?
- are you or do you know any people who work in politics or think tanks?
- welcoming ideas, feedback, and hate