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AngelList Talent is now Wellfound.com

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55 pointsBerislavLopac29 comments

You know how when your local hospital gets bought out by a corp, and then everything starts to feel rushed and commoditized? AngelList already had an air of desperation, and this makes it feel like one last bloodthirsty hoorah to really scrape the last bit out of the jug before binning it.

Also, why is the text only displaying after I scroll past it? Just let me see the content.

I've actually had success with AngelList Talent in the past. I prefer the name change because I can never remember if there are two Ls or just one.

Ironically, https://www.welfound.com/ with one L appears to be a (much smaller) existing job platform - so good luck with your confusion, and have fun, lawyers!

In seriousness, on the hiring side I've found AngelList Talent to be one of the more solid sources of thoughtful, passionate candidates. As the entire tech sector, not just angel-adjacent stages, is transforming before our eyes, it's great timing that Wellfound is forging a broader identity. I hope the branding issues don't cause problems, because I hope to continue using the platform!

We couldn't be more dedicated to Wellfound. By spinning out from AngelList, we think we can hone in even more on our unique audience and elevate the product. There was a lot of friction from a shared brand and codebase from the investor side.

Who bought Angel List?

I never understand why a brand with great name recognition and branding does this kind of thing.

Also, I'm really getting to the point where all scrolling low information eye-candy landing pages should have a giant <Take me to a simple landing page> button.

Keep in mind this is for AngelList Talent, not AngelList. It's typically very common to create more of a differentiation between your products, rather than using the same name for both. Before it was angellist.com and angel.co. Is that really more understandable?

Agree that the current situation was not ideal, but it was habituated at this point and now they're replacing one non-ideal solution with another one (in my opinion).

If they want to differentiate products, how about rebranding as TalentList or something like that to keep the association and buying talentlist.com and/or talentlist.co (neither of which is being used; both of which are registered). Let angel.co be a redirect; keep AngelList branding.

Agree that angel.co is confusing. I would have rather seen them use angellist.com as a lander to direct clients to talent.angellist.com and venture.angellist.com, but 1) it's too late for that now, 2) that doesn't differentiate brand which I accept as a goal.

We think Wellfound better embodies the spirit of finding what's next. Our sister company AngelList Venture is continuing on as AngelList.

Hear you on the landing page scrolling

> We think Wellfound better embodies the spirit of finding what's next.

"Wellfound" definitely does not suggest that, at least to me. The associations I make are health or search related. I'm curious which agency did the rebrand work.

"Wellfound" sounds like an app for finding wells to get water from in your area.

It's less descriptive than the old name though.

As a job marketplace, we were never "a list of angels". AngelList Venture, which in many ways still is, continues on with the name AngelList.

It made it really confusing to use the venture product, ime.

Glad to see this, since I utilize both sites (Venture v. Talent). Seen success on both, so this will at least help differentiate versus having to remember one or the other.

Sounds like some obscure medical or wellness company. I sure will quickly forget the name and thus the website.

No judgment on goodness of the name, but some feedback...

Even as I saw the "found" (as in founding a company), I insta-associated to health&wellness space, and then to Wealthfront.

When I later saw the name written again, I got the "well-founded" semi-pun association.

I too thought it's non-memorable, until the "well-founded" association.

I'll have to work on pronunciation; by default, comes out as "welf-hound".

I suppose the name will become familiar as we see it used.

And I'm a little glad I won't have to decide whether to say "AngelList" or "angel.co" when referring to the site.

yeah, very weird. We've made a couple of really really good hires off of Angellist over the years, and although we didn't get too many overall leads from them, I always had this at the back of my mind, angellist=startups=startup hire leads. This, on the other hand, is instantly forgettable. Just killed a good brand, weird.

Our sister company, AngelList Venture, continues on as AngeList. With the spin out, we chose a name that embodied a spirit of discovery and finding what's next.

I get the idea. But it would immensely help discovery if your name was easily discoverable.

The name Wellfound feels like the result of searching for weeks for an available .com and social handles. Eventually through a delirious haze you convince yourself you have a winner.

Links to actual content simply go back to https://angel.co/jobs. Wellfound is basically just a landing page at this point.

When searching for a job, especially in a startup, I found Angel List worthless. All primary results were basically massive companies like Amazon.

I have no idea what's happening with Angellist.

Sometime ago I was looking and was surprised to find that they no longer allow startups to list themselves and raise funding. Their model seems to have changed completely from how they'd initially launched, and IMHO succeeded.

Sounds like Wolfhound.

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is ironically not even true if we leave the name of the flower "rose" because we've inbred the scent out of most popular versions in favour of transit durability.

Sidenote: does anybody else find this type of website hard to read? Seems like animated text on scroll is all the rage these days. But I find it takes the focus off the copy, and makes it harder to read quickly.

Congrats! This is a good move and I'm excited to see the platform become better.

Should be wellfunded instead ?

AngelList was bought by ServiceNow and destroyed.

AngelList Talent is just a recruitment trap designed to underpay you, right?

all of this is false

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