Mid-July 2026 at NYC Founders Club
River Float early-bird tickets deadline, celebrating 10k+ subscribers 🥳, and hiring tips from Hubly Surgical
10,000+ of you?!? 🎉
We have some exciting news to share - since our last newsletter, we have officially hit 10,000+ subscribers 🥹 What started as a scrappy list designed to share founder stories, news, events, and more is now 10k+ NYC founders strong - thank you for reading, replying, and showing up. We’re so grateful for this community we’ve built together!
This edition:
Upcoming Events
Open roles at NYCFC Companies
Let’s get started! 🚀
The Great Founder River Float of 2026
Still looking for a chance to get out of the city before summer ends? Even better, with 100+ of NYC’s best founders?
Now’s your chance.
Early-bird tickets for The Great Founder River Float close in < 1 week (Monday, July 20th) before prices increase. Get your tickets before prices go up!
📅 Aug 22nd
🚌 Round-trip private transportation to/from Manhattan
🦦 ~3-hour float down Delaware River
🛟 Tube rental + safety gear (life jackets & tethers)
🍻 Post-float meal/drinks in town
🎟️ Tickets here 🎟️
Looks like a vibe to me!
P.S. Interested in sponsoring?
We have one sponsor spot left - email jordan@nycfounders.club for more info.
Tech Stack: Casey Qadir, Co-founder and CEO of Hubly Surgical
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Casey Qadir is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hubly Surgical, neuro-spine surgical safety company with uniquely 100% effective automatic-stop for surgical drills. Since launching in 2024, Hubly Drills have saved an estimated 8,000+ patient lives. Based in New York City, Casey has been an active member of NYC Founders Club since 2026.
Hiring & Recruiting Tips
LinkedIn — First stop for candidate sourcing
“What we do for hiring is we start off by just putting up a LinkedIn post, and we basically give it two weeks to see if anyone comes through a warm introduction or through our network, or just happens to apply on LinkedIn who's like fantastic.”
“In my experience, I feel like if you're gonna get a fantastic candidate through just a random LinkedIn post, I usually get that fantastic candidate in the first two weeks... my favorite people applied right away. It was like they had someone send them a post and they were like, 'you're perfect for this job,' or they were already in our network and had warm introductions and recommendations.”
Recruiter — Backup when the network comes up short
“We give it about two weeks, and if the candidate pool is just not coming up with anything that we're thrilled about, then we go to a recruiter, so that has worked very well in the past.”
For more on team communication and Codex vs Claude, read our full tech stack with Casey here.
Coming Up 🔥
Events:
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Wed, July 15th (members only)
Ship & Drink 🥂 💻 @Microsoft: Thurs, July 23rd
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Tues, July 28th (members only)
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Wed, Aug 5th (members only)
🗽 YC Alumni + Friends Happy Hour: Wed, Aug 12th
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Wed, Aug 19th (members only)
🗽 The Great Founder River Float of 2026: Sat, Aug 22nd
Early-bird pricing ends on Monday, July 20th!
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Email jordan@nycfounders.club to have us feature your event!
Roles at NYCFC Companies 👩🏻💻
Kickoff is hiring a Provider Growth Manager and other roles across growth and engineering.
Cobalt ID is hiring a Chief of Staff and a Staff Software Engineer.
Zingage is hiring a Head of Talent Engineering, a Founding GTM Engineer, Founding Engineers, and SWEs.
Invoice Butler is hiring a Founding Engineer.
See you next edition!
You made it to the end - thanks for reading! If you're interested in sponsoring an upcoming edition, we'd love to hear from you. Drop us a line at team@nycfounders.club.
– Aakash, Adam, Mike, and Jordan
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