a.p.c.
American Politics Company
This is the public landing page for our venture to fix American politics.
Additional context
How American Politics Broke
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
Barak
- Background: bay area native, berkeley/affirm-educated, software engineer, startup connoisseur, and political junkie
- Hats: CEO, ops, finance/revenue, product, back office …
Neall Seth, part-time contractor (leading eng)
Other contractors (~4, part-time)
You?
- Our current min rate is $20/hr for interns (eg high school) and $100k/year total comp for full-time. Double that for technical folks. Choose between cash and equity.
- 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
- Product, Design, and Eng
- 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 policy or 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