Cezar Grigore
A Y Combinator alumnus who came back to London and built two creator marketplaces out of the same small Camden office, each one grown from a tool his previous company needed.
We write profiles of people doing interesting things, so others can learn from their paths.
Our profiles
Each profile is written by Glimpse, not the person, and starts with a recommendation from someone we’ve already featured.
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Robert Gavrilescu
Four products in six years, one shared constraint: the user is live in front of an audience and can't stop to look at the screen. His latest answer now carries a fifth of a marketplace's sales.
Bill Perkins
A natural gas trader who wrote the decade's most argued-about book on spending a life, then founded two satellite companies and kept a seat at poker's biggest tables.
Jill Heinerth
A graphic designer who became one of the world's leading cave divers, and who now points her expeditions at an unmapped cave system an hour from her own house.
Veer Jhamtani
A Mumbai-raised dealmaker who learned Mandarin to sell a Chinese phone to Danish telcos, helped a first-year British bank decide what to build or buy, and now wires banks into Xero.
Mary Roach
Eight bestsellers built on the same unusual method: pick a subject by how many strange rooms it lets you walk into, then talk your way through every door.
Lonnie Dupre
He has reached the same frozen coast by dog team, kayak, skis and now a sailboat he refitted himself, and still goes back to hand people photographs from twenty-five years ago.
Mathieu Germain
A mechanical engineer who spent a year inside other people's factories and two years hearing customers' problems before being handed the product, and has now shaped Odoo's manufacturing apps for six years.
Justin Willman
A magician who answers online skeptics by writing their doubt into the show, and who builds a single act that works for second-graders, date nights and grandparents at once.
Kevin Michael Connolly
A man who photographed 35,000 strangers staring at him, then found the same mind that designed his own race ski now designing brochures in his hometown.
I’m Rohan. I’ve spent the last decade writing about people and their careers, alongside building Coached, Resume Worded and CareerSet.
Through that work and my newsletter, I’ve had so many conversations with people who’ve given me ideas, made me think differently and inspired my own work.
Glimpse is where we write about people like that. Short profiles of interesting people: what they’ve done, how they got there, and what others can take from it.
I hope you enjoy reading about people as much as I have!
Rohan MahtaniFounder, Glimpse & Coached
Our editorial process
- 01
Someone who’s already been featured recommends you. Glimpse is referral-based.
- 02
We research public sources and write the profile. The person featured doesn’t write it themselves.
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No one can pay to be covered. Everyone must be invited by an existing Glimpse member.