Like most companies, Glimpse’s most valuable asset is our team. Yet, at many companies, cultural values and expectations develop haphazardly instead of intentionally. While we can’t create a culture with a Notion page, we hope that writing down our intentions will help crystallize our aspirations and identify candidates excited by the kind of culture we want to build.

Keep in mind that this document is both aspirational and flexible. We won’t always live up to our ideals. Furthermore, as an early-stage company, our culture can and should change as new team members join and bring their ideas and experiences with them.

The entire team reviews this document semiannually to evaluate what’s working well, what’s not, and what should change.

🧭 Mission and vision

Glimpse’s mission is to enable battery quality at scale.

We are convinced that battery quality is perhaps the key blocker in enabling an electrified future and combatting climate change; profitable battery production, at scale, is extremely difficult, and ensuring sufficient battery quality is a massive blocker to battery gigafactory ramp times and profitability. Furthermore, when quality issues become safety issues (e.g., ebikes in NYC), human lives are at stake.

Glimpse’s vision is to develop a comprehensive battery Quality Management Solution primarily powered by high-throughput, high-quality X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans. Today, we test batteries destined for applications such as electric vehicles, grid energy storage, consumer electronics, humanoid robots, eVTOL aircraft, aerospace applications, and more.

We’re also excited to play a role in reshoring efficient, sustainable manufacturing back to the West, especially as we start to explore industries beyond batteries.

⚖️ Core values

Excellence. We want Glimpse to be known for excellence in everything it builds: technology, product, teams, customer relationships, etc. We hope to push the boundaries of what’s possible while delivering a reliable, consistent experience for our customers. In short, we hope all team members can do the best work of their lives at Glimpse.
Accountability, responsibility, and urgency. We take the battery quality challenge seriously. There’s a lot to do, so we’ll need everyone on the team to feel accountable, responsible, and a sense of urgency around our mission.
Humility. We will always have more to learn, and saying “I don’t know” is the first step to learning something new.
Safety. We’re passionate about making batteries safer, and we are more familiar than most with battery safety risks. We will always choose the safer course of action over a faster route, and we prioritize our team members’ safety over everything else.
Fun. In our experience, working on an important problem with talented and likable colleagues is about as much fun as a job can offer. Of course, we’ll also have plenty of socials and opportunities to hang out. Lastly, we don’t take ourselves too seriously.

🤝 Our commitment as leaders

One of our most important jobs as leaders is to bring out the best from our team. A few ways we can do this are:

Creating a healthy work environment. It’s our job to create a workplace where team members are excited to come to work each day.
Align skill sets and interests to problems. We’ll have plenty of problems to solve, and sometimes we’ll need to solve problems we don’t enjoy solving, but we’ll match skill sets and interests to problems as best we can. We’ll also strive to communicate clear priorities and balance ambition with pragmatism.
Enable you to work efficiently, with leverage. We’ll do our best to create space for focus time, minimize distractions, and leverage automation and best practices.
Create space for risk taking. While we don’t encourage failure, we recognize that failure is an inevitable part of growth and we encourage taking measured risks within a framework of sound decision-making.