ADPList: メンターのAirbnbを築く方法（メンターマッチングプラットフォーム）
月商 — · 創業者2人 · 従業員13人 · Singapore
Felix Lee（Founder, ADPList）· 創業 April 2020 · 記事掲載 — · adplist.org · 元の記事
2020年4月にGoogleスプレッドシートから始まり、2021年1月にウェブサイトを正式公開。創業時は「誰も信じなかった」が、現在では世界中に3,000人以上のメンターと30,000人以上のメンティーがいる。1日約160件の1対1セッションが行われ、月間約30万分のメンタリングが提供されている（記事の執筆時点）。集客は口コミと創業者自身のユーザー対話が中心。従業員12名。
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The consistent day-to-day showing up is what builds one’s character.
Before getting involved in entrepreneurship, I was a Design lead at Gotrade and the Co-founder at Packdat in 2018. I completed my studies at Singapore Polytechnic but decided to pursue entrepreneurship instead of continuing my studies at the university. The drive to create and curiosity has led me to product design. Design is a space for problem-solving, and I love the challenge of practical designing anything. I started taking online design courses after school in 2019, and this passion turned into a calling for me. The consistent day-to-day showing up is what builds one’s character. I want to create purposeful products that can make this world just a little better for humanity. This ambition turns itself into venturing with purpose.
We first started in April 2020 at the height of the pandemic, with a Google Spreadsheet. No one believed it would work, and people thought that this was a crazy idea. “Why would someone mentor a stranger in an entirely different country?” But our mentors have proven to the world that this idea is achievable and able to support the design community people across the world. The direct impact on the mentees’ careers is just amazing! We officially launched our website in January 2021, and the global community has been expanding since then. Today we have more than 3,000 mentors and 30,000 mentees around the globe.
At ADPList, we are on a mission to democratize mentorship for all. We believe that everyone regardless of rich or poor, connected or unconnected - should have equal access to mentorship as an education/growth resource. This is why we’re building an open community where knowledge is shared through mentorship. By providing an entirely new way to book and meet mentors directly all on the platform. Today, we’re doing ~160 1:1 sessions/day, and that’s about ~300k minutes of mentoring sessions monthly. Our mentors come from over 60 countries, diverse backgrounds, and expertise in tech (mainly design). Being said, we are a small team of 12 coupled with our amazing volunteers worldwide. Our long-term vision is to increase education freedom worldwide where everyone gets adequate access to mentors. We’re less than 1% into this journey. Our goal is to continue to focus on our community, expand regionally into North America, India, and APAC, and continue to foster a strong engagement globally.
In the beginning, it was difficult to get everyone's attention and to make them believe in our mission. We hardly get appointments for sponsorships and partnerships. It’s crazy. We did not give up hope and managed to break down more barriers with global communities, companies, and sponsors. Now, we’re in over 70 countries with more than 3,000 mentors actively contributing and our employees are from over 5 countries. It’s been a grateful journey and an interesting one to undergo the ADPList’s development and how the mission is being accepted and welcomed worldwide. My career taught me the value of a relentless mentality. The consistent day-to-day showing up is what builds one’s character. It is good to get going early. One of our investors, Siu Rui (Co-Founder, Carousell), told us to do things that did not scale. I went out and talked to every user about what was working and what was not working. This feedback made the product better. It became something people needed. If I could do things over, I’d do things that did not scale earlier.
The platforms/tools I use almost daily to stay productive are Slack, GSuite, Amplitude, and Asana. Slack enables asynchronous communication, GSuite allows me to collaborate on projects with the team, Amplitude allows me to look into customer usage and understand how we can serve them better (I also talk to them via Gmail), and finally, Asana; to plan our week and tasks.
The two most influential books I highly recommend are Elon Musk Biography and Sapiens by Yuval Noah Narrari. Elon’s book shows you the hard truth about greatness, and the impact you can make through your life’s work. Sapiens is an understanding of our humans as a civilization and how we’ve come to be. As they said, history repeats itself - it’s good to know what’s coming. I listen to podcasts by Tim Ferris, Gary Vee, and Simon Sinek mainly.
I would advise and encourage other entrepreneurs to “Get more involved in your mission sooner.”
Not at the moment.
Visit our website to book free mentoring sessions with our top global mentors and weekly group sessions organized by our community and partners. You can read our blogs written by our community and reach out to our social media platforms- LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and ADPList. Let’s immerse ourselves in the value of mentorship towards our career and life!