December 14, 2023: Want to be a great leader? Embrace “imposter syndrome”
“One who never doubts will never truly believe.“
― Hermann Hesse
Hi friends,
How's everything going?
This is Kei and Kazuki, founders of Glasp 👋
We hand-picked 3 good articles for you to highlight this week. Hope they'll help you get new ideas and perspectives. (You can read this online!)
📚 3 Good Articles for You
Want to be a great leader? Embrace “imposter syndrome”
by Alli Webb (4 mins)
- Recognizing Inner Weaknesses for Improvement: Alli Webb emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and confronting personal weaknesses, like conflict avoidance, to improve leadership and personal growth, based on her experiences at Drybar.
- Authenticity and Personal Growth: Webb highlights the value of being true to oneself, developing a unique leadership style through trial and error, and learning from challenges such as managing reactions and feedback in a business setting.
- Embracing Imposter Syndrome as a Positive Force: The article discusses "imposter syndrome" as a natural part of taking on new challenges, especially in entrepreneurship. Webb suggests that feeling like an imposter signifies growth and encourages embracing it as a step towards effective leadership and risk-taking.
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Memory as a Service
by Nick Grossman (2 mins)
- Investment in Knowledge Access: USV's investment thesis focuses on enhancing access to knowledge, primarily through consumer learning platforms like Duolingo and Codecademy. A key area of interest is improving the use of existing information, a concept that led to their investment in Dune.
- Technology to Enhance Memory: The aim is to use technology to better manage digital memory, stored in places like emails and web histories. Tools like Command-E, Slapdash, and Roam Research are emerging to address this, but challenges remain in creating an effective, user-friendly product.
- Market Potential and Privacy Issues: While the potential market for Memory as a Service is vast, encompassing various user groups, it raises significant privacy and security concerns. Careful consideration is needed to address these issues while developing such services.
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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing
by Casey Winters (9 mins)
- Strategic Growth Focus: After achieving product/market fit, companies prioritize growth by refining and scaling acquisition loops, and by developing new growth strategies for product and market expansion.
- Adaptive Product Development: Continuous product improvement and adaptation to changing market demands are essential, with a shift towards diversifying product work into areas like feature enhancement, market expansion, and scaling.
- Long-Term Growth via S-Curve Sequencing: Successful growth involves anticipating the plateau of current strategies and preemptively investing in new growth loops or products, exemplified by case studies of companies like Grubhub, Pinterest, and Eventbrite.
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📣 Community
- 🟨 Community meetup:
We'll have a monthly community meetup at 9 am on December 15th (PST). We're looking forward to seeing you all! Please feel free to jump in and out. You can register for the event from here 🤝 If you'd like to get invited via Google Calendar, please send a DM to Kei via Slack or email. - 🟦 Read5for5:
We're going to have the Read5for5 challenge in the week of December 13th! We will share the details this weekend. Let's read good articles and connect with like-minded people 📚
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❤️ Gratitude
We found some people who mentioned Glasp in their articles and blogs, and we appreciate all the kindness!
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Thank you all for sharing and mentioning us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and/or in your blogs 🙂 We appreciate all of your support! Please feel free to ask us anything at any time! Also, feel free to join our Slack community ;)
Hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter!
See you next week ;)
Best,
Kei and Kazuki
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