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Ryan Hoover on the TechTO stage

Ryan Hoover

Founder, Weekend Fund

Venture capitalSan FranciscoOn TechTO stages since 2020

Ryan Hoover founded Product Hunt, the daily list where people post and upvote new software, in 2013; AngelList bought it in 2016. He now runs Weekend Fund, an early-stage fund writing small cheques into consumer and B2B startups worldwide. He joined TechTO Together in April 2020 to talk about remote work and investing.

On the TechTO stage ×1

TECHTO TOGETHER10:07

TechTO Together — Ryan Hoover

Together · April 2020
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In their words

hiring full-stack engineers which is pretty typical for most startups in general but for distributed teams it's even more important because it allows you to allow that engineer to really build the entire product or feature end to end without waiting on someone else

TechTO Together, Apr 2020 · watch at 03:21 ↗
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Around the web ×1

Podcast
Product Launch's Ryan Hoover of Weekend Fund on Investingdot.LA
2021

Quick answers

What is Product Hunt?

A community site where people share and upvote new products — software, games and books. Hoover started it as an email list in 2013 and it was acquired by AngelList in 2016.

What is Weekend Fund?

The early-stage fund Hoover runs with Vedika Jain, writing small cheques into consumer and B2B startups globally. Weekend Fund IV was announced in 2026.

What did he talk about at TechTO?

A conversation with TechTO's Alex Norman in April 2020 about remote working — and remote investing — in the first weeks of the pandemic.

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