When we first started Glints, we were living and working out of a shophouse (known locally in Indonesia as a “ruko”). Here...
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New funding, new beginnings – getting more done to empower the 120 million professionals in SEA
Like for many startups out there, 2020 was a challenging year for Glints. Fortunately, thanks to some market tailwinds for our products and the hard work of the Glints team, by year-end, we managed to scale up to having over 4 million professionals visit Glints’ platform every month in pursuit of career development, and have served [...]
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Glints Raises Series B – What’s Next?
“Hey good news we have closed our first sale!” “Great! Now you can send the customer an invoice..” “Huh what’s an invoice? Ok let me google…” “….” That was way back in 2015, when we first left college to launch Glints. Glints was not only our first company, but our first work experience. So there were many [...]
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How this Startup’s Founders Broke Up, Stayed Friends and are still Going to Bali Together
It’s the dreaded after-lunch dessert conversation. Hearts thumping, saliva swallowing, and a bittersweet feeling that no amount of sweet raspberry cheesecake seemed to help. “It’s not you, it’s me” “What could we have done differently?” “Can we still be friends?” The breakup conversation. It’s the founders breakup [...]
Oswald Yeo
Glints raises $2.7M – a message to our talent
We announced our Series A fundraising today. You can read more about our fundraising & investors in our press release. I’d like to take this opportunity to explain what this fundraising round means for the talent in our Glints community. Ever since I’d began my journey with startups 3 years ago, I have been a religious [...]
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