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 a very-early-stage company, our culture can and should change as new team members join and bring their ideas and experiences with them.

🧭 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 all-electric future; 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 platform powered by high-throughput, high-quality X-ray computed tomography (CT) scans.

⚖️ Core values

  1. Excellence. We want Glimpse to be known for excellence in everything it builds: technology, teams, customer relationships, etc. We hope all team members can do the best work of their lives at Glimpse.
  2. Mission-driven. We’ve dedicated our careers to fighting climate change. Fighting climate change will need lots of batteries, but these batteries only help if they are of sufficient quality.
  3. 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.
  4. Humility. We will always have more to learn, and saying “I don’t know” is the first step to learning something new.
  5. 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:

  1. Creating a healthy work environment. It’s our job to create a workplace where team members are excited to come to work each day. We’ll also maintain a strict no-asshole policy.
  2. 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 realism.
  3. 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.
  4. Create space for risk taking. We don’t encourage failure, but we do encourage taking measured risks within a framework of sound decision-making.
  5. Resolve disagreements decisively and with empathy. While we won’t always agree with each others’ decisions or behavior, we’ll strive to understand where everyone is coming from and leave our emotions at the door to resolve conflicts constructively. We’ll clearly communicate the rational for any top-down decisions.
  6. Help you take your career where you’d like to go. As a new company, we’ll have plenty of opportunities for growth on both individual contributor and leadership tracks. If Glimpse cannot support a new career interest, we will use our networks to help find you a new work home.