Chief of Staff & Coach

• Australian-born Malaysian
• Tedx Speaker, Certified Freediver, Musician

📍Based in Berlin

<aside> 🟢 Open to Work (People, Operations, & Coaching roles)

For the past decade I’ve been working with executive teams to build tech companies in the Community, Future of Work & AI space. My last leadership role was as Chief of Staff at Commsor (valued at $450mil).

I’m also the co-founder of Closer - a questions game & in-person events series to foster deep connection & healing in our current loneliness epidemic.

Going forward, I’d like to work with companies prioritising a positive social impact.

Read more here tristanlim.xyz

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About me 💡

• Lived in: Australia, Malaysia, USA, Italy & Germany.
• Languages: English, Mandarin, Italian, Malay, Spanish, & German.
• Education: Bocconi University (Mgmt, Finance, Econ) & United World College USA (IB Programme)
• Hobbies: Tennis (Coaching & Playing), Freediving (AIDA 2), Running, Spinning

Skills 🌟

• CEO support system (coaching, sparring, board meeting preparations)
• Building & scaling company operations (HR, project mgmt, finance)
• Defining & owning company objectives
• Leadership coaching & sparring
• Growth management & end-to-end sales
• Facilitating workshops & townhalls
• Social media management

Problems I’ve worked on 🔵

• How to lead and scale a team after raising a $50million Series B
• How to bootstrap a startup from 0-$4mil ARR in 2 years
• How to setup and run ops for an investment fund with over 80 investments
• How to run an influencer focused GTM motion on a shoestring budget
• How to keep company morale up after mass layoffs
• How to instil a culture of high performance in a fully-remote environment
• How to go from silent all-hands to highly engaged ones

Work Experience ⚡️

⏰ Current

Part-time Coach @ Self Employed

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⏰ 2023

👉 AI Content Writing tool

Growth Manager @ Blaze

Series A - Backed by Tiger, Floodgate, Signal Fire (Press)

<aside> 👉 Hired to identify & scale new growth channels. Helped the team reach #1 on Product Hunt.

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• Breakdown of roles & responsibilities (click on the black triangle on the left)

⏰ 2022 - 2023

👉 Question cards & events to spark meaningful connection

Founder & Facilitator @ Project Closer

Self-funded and scaled until profitable

<aside> 👉 Conceptualised and built a questions card game & meetup series with my co-founder Tapas. Played by over 750 people - 120 decks sold and 14 events hosted.

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• Breakdown of roles & responsibilities (click on the black triangle on the left)

⏰ 2021 - 2022

👉  A dashboard for your community

Chief of Staff @ Commsor

Series B - Backed by Atomico, Slack Fund (Press)

<aside> 👉 Hired to stabilize & scale the company as we closed our $50mil Series B and entered hyper-growth mode.

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• Breakdown of roles & responsibilities (click on the black triangle on the left)

⏰ 2021 - 2022

👉 Boutique venture capital fund for future of work projects

Operations @ Remote First Capital

Fund of Andreas Klinger (investments in Remote.com, Clubhouse, Cal.com, Hopin, Commsor)

<aside> 👉 Scaled internal operations and helped launch Fund 2 & 3. Roughly 60 total investments made. (1st fund with 4x return, IRR ~151%)

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• Breakdown of roles & responsibilities (click on the black triangle on the left)

⏰ 2017 - 2021

👉 One of Berlin’s very first digital freelancer agencies

Community & Sales @ CodeControl

Bootstrapped until profitable

<aside> 👉 Learnt what it takes to build a bootstrapped company. Worked my way through every role - from marketing, to sales, to community management. (5th Employee)

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• Breakdown of roles & responsibilities (click on the black triangle on the left)