S2E8: What is it like being a young boss?

The Straits Times Podcasts

Good leadership that inspires confidence cuts across age.

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It isn’t possible to draw lines along age, tenure, skill and leadership in the working world as neatly as previously.

The image of top leaders has expanded beyond the notion of someone assuming their position after a long-drawn process.

This is a convention upended, perhaps most prominently, by the heady proliferation of influential start-ups with precociously young leaders at the helm, one of whom journalist Tay Hong Yi spoke to in the latest episode of Headstart On Record

His guest is:

Mr Looi Qin En, partner at venture capital firm Saison Capital, who co-founded careers discovery platform Glints.

Highlights (click/tap above):

2:00 How did Glints’ co-founders start a business that young?

3:20 How did Qin En grow both his technical skills and soft skills so quickly?

6:30 How to convince people to look past your age as a young leader?

14:53 How to inspire confidence among those you lead?

16:59 Has Qin En ever felt he has peaked early in his career?

20:32 Where young leaders have the most room to learn

Read Tay Hong Yi's articles: https://str.sg/w6cz

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Host: Tay Hong Yi ([e-mail])

Produced & edited by: Amirul Karim

Executive producers: Ernest Luis, Lynda Hong & Joanna Seow

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1. What is it like being a young boss? (00:00:00)

2. How young co-founders started Glints (00:02:00)

3. Growing technical and soft skills quickly (00:03:20)

4. Shifting focus on age as a young leader (00:06:30)

5. Inspiring confidence among those you lead (00:14:53)

6. The peak of Qin En's career? (00:16:59)

7. Where young leaders can grow the most (00:20:32)