Anand Chandrasekaran
@anandc
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Founder (Crescendo AI, HiOctave AI). Investor (Celesta Capital, GC, 90+ seed checks, 10🦄s), Builder (Meta, Airtel, Five9). 1% better everyday.
Palo Alto, CA
Joined August 2008
2015 was a terrific year! Across the Crescendo, Celesta and HiOctave journeys, we covered a lot of ground and learned a ton! Reflecting on the key milestones below… gratitude for the incredible partners, teams and partnerships to do this right!
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still surprising how many founders think their seed round valuation was real they talk about their SAFE cap like it was a market price. like some objective arbiter looked at their company and said "yes, this is worth $15M" that's not how it works a VC looked at your company
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You fall in love with the first idea… once you’ve got it, the rest will come in time.
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Excited to see Crescendo AI, HiOctave AI and Titan MSP all featured here! All 3 are journeys that are deeply exciting, going into 2026!
Venture capitalists borrowed liberally from the private equity playbook this year, and nowhere was that more evident than in roll-up strategies built on the idea that AI tools can make old-school small businesses far more efficient. We wrote back in June that the “AI roll-up had
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Founders Fund invested ~$650-700M in SpaceX since 2008, and that ownership is now worth $80B. Likely among the best venture investments of all time!
Elon Musk owns 42% of SpaceX and SpaceX is now officially valued at $800 BILLION Elon Musk's 42% stake in SpaceX is now worth $336 Billion $336 Billion would be enough to make Elon the richest person in the world and it does not include ANY of his Tesla shares Here are the
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GM $ABE Army The countdown is getting uncomfortable, and that’s how you know we’re close. No launch yet, but you can feel it in the air. Early mornings, early community, early energy. Almost time.🚀
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Everytime I get mad at people in the cheap seats criticizing founders in the arena, I remind myself of what Giannis said. Arguably my favorite response to a reporter ever.
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Well said 👏 Hopefully it’s a career path more incredible tech leaders and investors can follow -
Deeply strange @nytimes article about @DavidSacks Leading in AI is good for America. And there is no way for America to lead in AI without American investors in AI doing well. Irrespective of whether those investors are David’s friends or his enemies. And like everyone who has
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Question for any other property managers (landlords) out there or Illinois attorneys: Recently my state (Illinois) made "source of income" a protected class we cannot say no to just like age/race/sex/etc. "Source of Income" means a lot of things but they mainly mean it for the
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CX leaders, AI insights, and a vision for the future all came together at Crescendo Live NYC. Our founder @anandc shares how Crescendo stands out in CX by building smarter products powered by AI.
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NEWS ALERT: JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS becomes the 5th longest serving Justice in our nation’s history (12,447 days – 34 years, 28 days) TODAY, and his profound influence on American jurisprudence grows more every day. Justice Thomas’s more than 763 opinions have laid a path back
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70% of carts get abandoned. $4T in merchandise. Merchants waste ~20% of their marketing budgets chasing window shoppers or discounting sure bets. The problem: current systems can't reliably distinguish the signal from the noise. I propose "Intent Traces" for ACP and x402, so
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“I’ll take a meeting with anyone” is the opposite of cancel culture!
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This is a good lagging indicator, after the fact. At the time, it is back the best founders you can meet (and keep improving the quality of founders you can meet)!
as a seed investor, there a four strategies invest in sectors that Series A firms are interested in, which is extremely limited & ~30 firms are the most active invest in sectors independent of the 30 Series A firms focus & have a lot of follow on capital reserved for them
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Just in time for Black Friday -
🛍️Meet Crescendo’s new Multimodal AI Shopping Assistant. Every shopper question turns into action. Built for the first AI-powered holiday season, it helps brands move customers from intent to purchase in seconds. 🚀Browse smarter. Buy faster. Learn more: https://t.co/ocA13ior7O
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@anandc @getstanapp Thanks for the belief since day zero, Anand. More milestones loading 🚀
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I dont think most early stage founders realize just how nonsense and low signal valuations can be. I’ve heard many founders say “well this company proved the market is huge — they’re worth $X Billion” and meanwhile, the company’s revenue is single digit millions.
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