Today’s Top Talent Pools

Polymarket, the prediction-market platform, secured around $300M from insider 1789 Capital at a $21B valuation as part of a larger round, per the WSJ. 1789 is the firm founded by Omeed Malik with Donald Trump Jr. as a partner.

  1. Samuel Hatem in NYC (Stealth)

    1. Role: Blockchain Developer @ Polymarket (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: CTO & Co-Founder @ Slide ($12M from Framework Ventures, Polychain, Coinbase Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan), Founder @ chainpro.xyz (9 figures lifetime trading volume)

    3. Description: "building notional.xyz".

  2. Aditya Gupta in US (Student)

    1. Role: First Intern @ Polymarket (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Intern @ Jump Trading and @ Bridge, FTTP @ Jane Street, Stanford CS, Chess National Master, USA Computing Olympiad Platinum, 5x AIME

    3. Description: Stanford CS Undergrad

  3. Mustafa Aljadery in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: “Chief Intern” @ Polymarket (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ H Company ($220M seed from Accel, UiPath, Eric Schmidt), Early engineer @ beehiiv ($12.5M from Lightspeed)

    3. Description: Left 8/26

  4. Raymond Qin in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: President, US Operations, VP @ Polymarket (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founder & CEO @ Toppings (Bessemer-backed), COO @ Global Research and Consulting Group

    3. Description: "Exploring/Building." Left 3/26

  5. Mike Shrieve in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Head of Protocol @ Polymarket (4.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Math PhD @ University of Washington

    3. Description: Left 4/26

  6. Sheldon T. in Halifax (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Software Engineer @ Polymarket (5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SDE @ Amazon Web Services

    3. Description: "brb." Left 8/26

  7. Jared K. in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Markets Lead @ Polymarket (4.5 yrs)

    2. Description: Left 7/26

  8. Akanshu Jain in Delhi (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Product @ Polymarket (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Brahma (acquired by Polymarket 3/26), Co-Founder @ Hooklabs

    3. Description: "Side questing." Left 7/26

  9. Josh Hudson in NYC (Founder & CEO @ Ember Systems)

    1. Role: Head of Infrastructure @ Polymarket (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Infrastructure @ Agora, Staff SRE and Infra Platform Lead @ Chainlink Labs, Senior DevOps Engineer @ Snapdocs

    3. Description: "The Grant Warden for AI Agents”

  10. Sami Junior Kahil in NYC (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Engineering @ Polymarket (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Founding Engineer @ Turntable (YC W23), Co-Founder @ Montelo, Founding Engineer @ Nen Labs

    3. Description: Left 2026

  11. Mahdi Ali in NYC (CEO @ tiny)

    1. Role: Business Lead @ Polymarket (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Principal @ Norgard Capital

    3. Description: Since 6/26

  12. Armand S. in SF (CEO @ Daily)

    1. Role: Senior Director, Growth & Product @ Polymarket (1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Sr. Manager of Growth @ Aave Labs, Labelbox

    3. Description: Stealth since 3/26