--- title: How Lightspeed found its newest hire … via Instagram DM description: Lightspeed venture firm partners Josh Machiz and Claire Zau discuss how Zau was recruited via Instagram DM and joined Lightspeed as a tech content creator with... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-lightspeed-found-its-newest-hire-via-instagram-dm-y6vzo83jf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Lightspeed found its newest hire … via Instagram DM | daily.dev og:description: Lightspeed venture firm partners Josh Machiz and Claire Zau discuss how Zau was recruited via Instagram DM and joined Lightspeed as a tech content creator with... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-lightspeed-found-its-newest-hire-via-instagram-dm-y6vzo83jf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/y6VZo83JF.png og:image:alt: How Lightspeed found its newest hire … via Instagram DM og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Lightspeed found its newest hire … via Instagram DM **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Lightspeed venture firm partners Josh Machiz and Claire Zau discuss how Zau was recruited via Instagram DM and joined Lightspeed as a tech content creator with over 350,000 combined social media followers. They talk about their podcast Lightwork, the firm's growing media strategy, and how social media provides real-time feedback on investments and tech trends. The duo sees their media presence as a way to reach early-stage founders and make venture capital more accessible to broader audiences, noting that traditional journalism's decline has created an opportunity for firms to help portfolio companies tell their stories. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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