Positive Tenacity

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John

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8 ways to spot a truly exceptional employee

Great employees possess a wide range of easily defined — but hard to find — qualities.

8 ways to spot a truly exceptional employee

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ABOUT Positive Tenacity

These are my notes from building and investing in startups. I’m John S. Kim, Co-Founder/CEO of Sendbird, and General Partner at Valon Capital/ASQ. Learn more here.

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Had a lovely 🍵 with Elizabeth, CTO of Netflix. She was so kind and warm. I really am proud of our team and our high-trust partnership. Let’s keep going! 🚀 Got some folks together for an event. :)) Good meeting today with fellow CEOs. And what a fantastic home made dinner. 🙏 Congratulations Nanro foundation for pushing Korean culinary art forward and across the globe. Such a proud moment. 🙏 Announcing delight.ai ✨ to our APAC market :) Incredible work from our @sendbirdhq team. Great turn out! 🙌 Happy holidays from team @sendbirdhq 💜🙌 At Koom festival with @saeju_jeong :) gave a quick talk about AI, organizations, teams, self, and the path for humanity after superintelligence. On stage at AWS re:Invent 2025 with Delight.ai — a glimpse of what the future of AI-powered customer service looks and feels like! 💥 It was a genuine privilege to present our new AI brand: delight.ai to the world last week. I am inspired by our team’s incredible teamwork to put together such an event to delight our customers and the opportunity to connect with the leaders in AI here in San Francisco 🌉 We did it! First ever launch event in SF by our @sendbirdhq team. Amazing teamwork! Thanks for coming to our Delight.ai launch event! Great session on the future of enterprise AI, team and organization in the AI-default world. Home office setup Nov 2025 💻 Mike Intrator, Co-Founder & CEO of CoreWeave. Super interesting framework on how he sees his business from financial assets and DCF(!) perspective. Learned a lot! Breaking Bad is my all time favorite TV show. Great meeting you @aaronpaul! Very cool to learn about his @thelightphone journey. What a fun night! Happy Halloween 🎃 👻 from @sendbirdhq family!