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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Oswald’s All Hands Address to Glintstars
This morning Oswald delivered the following address to Glintstars: My fellow Glintstars, Today is a difficult day for us all. As a company, we have always believed in persevering through challenges and being resourceful in the face of adversity. But as we stay optimistic, we must also face the brutal reality in front of us. It is with [...]
Oswald Yeo
Glints Raises US$50 Million to Scale Regional Talent Ecosystem for 120 Million Professionals in Southeast Asia
Singapore, 30 August 2022 – Glints, the most trusted and active end-to-end regional talent ecosystem in Southeast Asia for career development and recruitment, raised US$50 million in a Series D oversubscribed round co-led by DCM Ventures, Lavender Hill Capital, and returning investor PERSOL Holdings. “Our mission at Glints is [...]
Oswald Yeo
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 [...]
Oswald Yeo
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 [...]
Oswald Yeo
Growing Beyond Borders: From a Local Shophouse Operation to a Series D Funded Regional Talent Ecosystem
When we first started Glints, we were living and working out of a shophouse (known locally in Indonesia as a “ruko”). Here are some of my favorite photos from our journey at Glints so far: This is a photo of one of our first product managers holding a product meeting. The team was growing rapidly and there weren’t enough [...]
Oswald Yeo
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 [...]
Qin En
My Tour of Duty with a Startup
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” – Steve Jobs In August 2013, a startup was founded by 3 founders, and 2 years later, I decided to join them officially as a part-time intern in their marketing team, and [...]
Oswald Yeo
Employee Stock Options Explained
Employee stock options form a core part of a growing startup’s compensation package. Yet, this is a widely misunderstood topic by employees (sometimes, even founders themselves aren’t clear on how that works). It took us a while to figure out what was going on, and make sense of the information. Everyone had something to say about [...]
Qin En
Auto-Saving, Bahasa Indonesia and more!
Hi friends of Glints! Today I’m pleased to announce a few new features for the Glints platform! This release brings auto-saving functionality for job postings and job applications, improved status updates for your applications and of course, an assortment of bug fixes. For our friends in Indonesia, the platform is now available in [...]
Yong Jie Wong