Jinhee Lee

𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐤𝐬 — 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. Shanghai-based agency Mediastorm recently made headlines when CEO Tim Pan gifted iPhone 17 Pro Max devices to every single employee — yes, even interns and fresh hires. He even covered the taxes, making it a completely free gift. At a time when many organizations talk about motivation but rarely go beyond words, this act showed how true leadership values people. The grand gesture didn’t just boost morale; it created a wave of admiration worldwide reminding us that when employees feel genuinely rewarded, they don’t just work harder — they work with heart. Such moments redefine workplace culture, proving that success isn’t built by machines or profits alone, but by valuing human effort. The CEO’s gift wasn’t merely about phones — it was about recognition, respect, and the belief that every achievement belongs to the entire team. The internet celebrated him as the “Best Boss Ever.” Key Learnings for Leaders from this : 🔹 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. Recognition should never be hierarchical — interns and freshers deserve to feel valued too. 🔹 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬. People rarely forget meaningful gestures that go beyond words. 🔹 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬. This act sent a clear message: “You belong, and you’re important.” 🔹 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. Not every leader can afford iPhones, but regular, thoughtful gestures often mean just as much. 🔹 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. A motivated workforce doesn’t just perform better — they advocate for the brand. 💡 The real takeaway: Employees don’t just work for paychecks. They work for purpose, pride, and the feeling of being valued. 👉 What’s the most impactful act of appreciation you’ve seen at your workplace? Share your thoughts / story in the comments — let’s inspire each other. 👇 (Repost♻️ to spark a fire in someone’s heart!)🔥 Image credit: Respective owner Connect 🤝 Shikha Gupta (L.I.O.N)  Follow 👉 #shikhagupta Notification: Press 🔔 icon Follow Shikha Gupta (L.I.O.N) for more such content: Open for #collaboration (https://lnkd.in/gAu7cpjq) 📌 For Career guidance, Resume Building, Interview success, LinkedIn profile optimization, Personal Branding, Inspiration and a lot more... 📌 Join WhatsApp Community - Learn, Grow and Get Hired https://lnkd.in/defYjfTq #iPhone17 #EmployeePerks #CorporateCulture #China #WorkplaceCulture #BestBossEver #iPhone17ProMax #WorkCulture #LeadershipLessons #LeadershipGoals #EmployeeAppreciation #RespectAtWork #TeamSpirit #Leadership #EmployeeExperience #EmployeeEngagement #Reshare #EmployeeMotivation #FutureOfWork #Motivation #Inspiration #Repost

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New interview w/ Seoul Metropolitan Government about building a startup in Seoul as a foreigner over the past 10 years. Seoul is no longer just a place to live for foreigners—it has become a stage to expand one’s career and leap onto the global scene. Jacob Jacquet, CEO of the AI-powered resume creation platform Rezi, is a prime example of this transformation. Arriving in Seoul in 2015 with nothing but a spirit of adventure, he leveraged the city’s startup ecosystem and support programs to grow a platform now used by more than 4 million people worldwide. This is the story of how he discovered—and proved—the potential that Seoul can offer to foreigners.

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🔥🚪👀 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗣 𝗜𝗡𝗦, weekly profiles of cracked teams | Ep 9: Rilla “Sales is a sport” is the motto at Rilla — and you see it / hear it / feel it everywhere. Sebastian, the CEO, pitches faster and more convincingly than Billy Mays. You just wanna buy whatever he’s selling. GTM works out of the “kennel — because they’re a bunch of dogs.” And the SDR team —full of ex athletes— keeps realtime stats up on their “Chim Board.” It’s hard to imagine a startup culture better fit to its end market, and that’s clearly part of the magic here. More on Rilla... ||FAST FACTS|| - $80M raised to date from firms including Bessemer Venture Partners, GV (Google Ventures), and Crew Capital. - HQ in NYC - Founded in 2019 ||PRODUCT|| Rilla is to (the 12 million US-based) field salespeople what Gong is to inside sales. The platform’s core functionality is interaction recording and transcription, as well as AI-led feedback upon this data. These core capabilities treasured by the managers of these field sales teams, who can replace old world ride alongs with at-scale coaching. But winning love from the salespeople themselves is critical too, and Rilla does this with features that automate a lot of the boorish work required of sellers, like entering notes into the CRM. ||WHY NOW?|| - New recording capabilities: Only with the help of LLMs has ASR become powerful enough to handle the tougher transcription demands of field sales. - LLMs for coaching: Gong built a big business on call recording alone. But Rilla is able to scale the manager even further by applying LLMs to do a first pass at coaching across all recordings, and to triage where the manager should spend time. -- cc Christopher, Michael, Will, Dylan, Eytan

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U.S. Investor Allocates US$75,000 to University Startups in Concepción Chambify, Pairy, and PetFile each received an initial check for US$25,000 The final round of the 7th Gear Challenge brought together 10 tech startups from students at the University of Concepción, who presented their solutions to North American entrepreneur Chris Klaus. By: Sofía Maluenda It all started with a message on Facebook. As told by the dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Concepción, Pablo Catalan , students were called to a hall where a surprise awaited them: they would present their tech solutions to U.S. investor Chris Klaus, who would be awarding US$25,000 each to the top three projects, plus the possibility of opening operations in the U.S. Klaus — known for founding the tech firm Internet Security Systems (later acquired by IBM) — came to the University of Concepción to scout projects that could go global. “Two or three years ago this would have been unthinkable,” said Dean Catalán. The Pitches Each startup had four minutes to pitch and convince the jury, which included Chris Klaus, international investors, and university representatives. Ten teams made it to the finals, selected from 138 submissions. The winning startups were: Chambify – A platform that connects emerging artists with event producers and opportunities. Pair – An app for organizing relationship goals, anniversaries, and shared milestones. PetFile – An app that uses AI to manage and organize pet medical records and documents. “Each one presented strong and globally scalable solutions,” said Klaus. One of the winners, Fernando Díaz de Arcaya, CEO of Chambify, celebrated the international recognition: “We demonstrated that we can solve global problems from here.”

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How 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗜 is 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 #𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁? #𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 #𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁, 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵. 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲’𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴: 🔄 Shift from Manual Coding to AI-Assisted Development: Traditional development: Requires human programmers to write, debug, and test code manually. Gen AI challenge: Tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Code Whisperer can now, Autocomplete code intelligently; Generate boilerplate or even complex logic; Translate between languages; Suggest fixes or optimizations; 📌 Impact: Reduces the need for repetitive coding; Lowers the barrier to entry for non-developers; Raises expectations for faster development cycles; 🤖 Autonomous Software Agents: Traditional development: Applications run predefined logic and require user commands or inputs. Agentic AI challenge: AI agents can, Plan, reason, and make decisions independently; Interact with APIs, databases, and other software without being explicitly programmed for each task; Adapt and learn from the environment; 📌 Impact: Moves from static systems to dynamic, adaptive ones; Introduces a new development paradigm: "specify the goal, not the steps"; Challenges existing architectures which are rigid and procedural; 🛠️ New Development Paradigms: Traditional software: Built using structured design, with heavy focus on deterministic logic and clear data flow. AI Agents approach: More probabilistic and data-driven; Can evolve through fine-tuning and prompt engineering; Uses "natural language" as a development interface (e.g., prompt-based programming); 📌 Impact: Engineers must now also be prompt designers or data curators; Testing and debugging becomes less about syntax errors and more about behavior alignment; Version control of prompts, training data, and models becomes crucial; 📦 Challenges to DevOps & Maintenance: Traditional model: CI/CD pipelines manage code changes, testing, and deployments. Agentic AI complications: Code is partly generated dynamically — versioning is less straightforward; Models might change behavior after updates or retraining; Monitoring and auditing AI behavior requires new tools (e.g., for explainability, fairness, or hallucination detection); 📌 Impact: Observability and debugging tools need to evolve; Governance, compliance, and reproducibility become more complex;

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Introducing Teen Accounts on Facebook and Messenger, improving safety for young users in Vietnam Starting this week, Teen Accounts are available on Facebook and Messenger in Vietnam. 🔒 Enhanced Protections for Teens + Restricted audience: Teen Accounts will default to “Friends” for who can see posts, stories, videos, and friend lists. + Restricted messaging: Messages are set at the highest protection level. Only friends or existing contacts can chat with teens. Messages from accounts with only a phone number will appear in the “message requests” folder. + Restricted sensitive content: Meta’s system will automatically remove sensitive or offensive content to ensure an age-appropriate experience. + Interaction limits: Posts in which teens are tagged must be reviewed and confirmed by them before appearing on their profile. + Time limits: Teens will receive reminders to log off after 60 minutes of daily use. + Sleep mode: From 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM, Facebook will automatically mute notifications so teens are not disturbed at night. 97% of users aged 13-15 keep the default protection settings, helping parents feel more confident about their children’s online safety 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parental Supervision: Parents and guardians can use supervision tools to manage safety settings, approve requests to lower protection, and set time limits. They can also view friend lists, Messenger contacts, and blocked accounts. 🚨 Stronger enforcement: In early 2025, about 135,000 Instagram accounts were removed for harassment involving children under 13. Around 500,000 related accounts on Facebook and Instagram were suspended #MetaVietnam with Thao Griffiths Trang Quynh More information in the comment

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