Anand Chandrasekaran
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Technologist. Builder. Investor | Currently @Crescendocx and @GeneralCatalyst | Formerly @Five9 , @Meta , @Snapdeal , @AirtelIndia etc.
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Taking criticism seriously but not personally is a superpower.
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Thrilled to share that I am joining
@generalcatalyst
as a Partner and Investor, the first to be dedicated to focusing on 🇮🇳/🇺🇸 opportunities. Really grateful to
@htaneja
for the opportunity and to my Partners and colleagues at GC for your trust.
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Storytelling is probably the most underrated founder skill.
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Writing Docs at Amazon
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If you don't die as a marketplace, then you live long enough to become a fintech.
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ANGEL INVESTING PERFORMANCE (2015-2021) -
*all parentheses are last years numbers for comparison*
#gratitude
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If you are leaving a 🦄 you were a part of building in 🇮🇳 to startup, pls ping me (WA,LI,here) to chat.
We are excited to incubate newcos, would love to help you think it through and explore partnering with you! 🙏
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On this day (exactly 20 yrs ago), I stepped out of my first plane ride ✈️ ever to come from India to the US. SO MUCH has changed - but I am still as grateful!
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விதையாக வாழும்
நமக்கு கதைகள் இருக்கு
நாளை நமக்கே விடியும்
விழித்துப் போராடு
வானம் உனதே
பாதி வழியில் பறவை
பறக்க மறக்காதே
Great
@rajnikanth
vibe, but could also be the story of 🇮🇳 SaaS!
Congrats
@mrgirish
and team
@FreshworksInc
!
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A PM on my team had a habit of apologizing before starting sentences. I gave him feedback, to not sell himself short. It's not just him. We all do this - often driven by impostor syndrome.
I didn't know what to ask him to do instead though, until I saw this. Say THANKS instead.
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What a decade it has been 🌈
💍married
🐶 jellybean
🇮🇳 for 4 yrs
💪 Resilience
🍼Had our first 👶
🎵🛒 Built
@WynkMusic
,
@airtelindia
commerce,
@snapdeal
🦄/
@FreeCharge
,
@messenger
platform @ FB.
🤝 Invested in 50+ founders
🏙 Five9
📖 learning & friendships
#Grateful
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For years, I asked many incredible product leaders what a good product leader did (and what they did with their time). Now that I get asked the same thing, here's a list (this is less during the pre-PMF stage and more once the product is at some scale):
#Thread
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If you are in downtown Palo Alto this morning and run into a couple of girls selling lemonade for 50c, pls. humor them... they just learned the difference between selling features vs. benefits💥
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Some personal writing ✍️, consolidated in a single thread - 👇
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Craving South Indian food, all of a sudden!
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So grateful for this journey, and the fantastic outcome for all. Ty
@rowantrollope
for the opportunity!🙏 🚀💪
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Having transitioned from building consumer products to SaaS products - my *BIGGEST* observation is that the enterprise migration to cloud is as big (if not bigger) than the consumer migration to mobile post iPhone. It's not a "trend" - it's a fundamental re-wiring.
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Shoutout to Anjali Bansal, Naiyya Saggi, Shanti Mohan and many more amazing women operator angels in 🇮🇳 we love and respect. (definitely in “Top 100” but not included here!).
Pls. tag the best ones below!
Congrats…another list where women barely made it, while men made generational wealth. 😭
We need to encourage more women to start investing in startups.
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Great product people tend to show these 4 traits (we've seen this to be esp during a pandemic) -
1) Curiosity
2) Growth mindset
3) Reliance on first principles
4) Judgement (decision making)
Thread ⬇️
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Showing up, and asking nicely (consistently) is an underrated superpower!
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🚨 Have transitioned to Venture Advisor at
@generalcatalyst
(and paused on new investing) to focus my time on helping build
@CrescendoCX
with my amazing co-founders and team. See our vision and theory of change below, and it’s off to a terrific start -
I will continue to…
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turning off 24h news and reading a newspaper (or two) is the best self-preservation move in 2020.
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Who I'm scheduled to / talked to today (6 calls) -
2 in India 🇮🇳
2 in Germany (back to back) 🇩🇪
1 in New Zealand 🇳🇿
Have 1 call in the 🇺🇸 later today.
'Silicon Valley' now feels like it's in the cloud!
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"There is only the expert of yesterday. No expert of tomorrow." - Jack Ma
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All the folks dunking on founders & builders for one reason or the other - pls. stop. Build something great yourself, or get out of the way.
Esp in a nascent ecosystem like 🇮🇳, each new generation of founders has learned well from the previous one… they will, this time too.
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Good friends’ grandparents in 🇮🇳 suffering from Covid -
Me @ 2pm: friends, can you help?
2:12pm:
@aayushjaiswal07
offering oxygen cylinder for pickup in Delhi
The way the community has come together is the biggest hope that we will get through this. Stay safe, everyone 🙏🙏
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In the past 6 months,
@generalcatalyst
has made 6 pre-seed investments in 🇮🇳.
Here is a breakdown:
🤝 - 2 consumer marketplaces
🐇🕳 - 2 in web3/crypto
🩺 - 2 in health tech
We are the first/only institutional check in many of them.
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Day 1
@Five9
... excited to work on AI + future of customer experiences with amazing leaders like
@rowantrollope
,
@jdrosen2
and so many more!
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Willing to look stupid in public for a little while (while you grow as an individual) is a superpower.
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India 🇮🇳 has led the charge in financial rails - wouldn’t be surprised if this becomes another chapter that cements some truly inspired governance + engg + empowerment.
India should support crypto as a pillar of its foreign & domestic policy.
It defends national security by preventing deplatforming, deters fraud via on-chain accounting, and offers a decentralized alternative to a new Cold War.
@nsitharaman
@narendramodi
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OH: “Only 4% of 🇮🇳‘s 1.38B population has experienced air travel.”
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Today,
@bonatsos
and I are excited to lead the seed round (equity + tokens) in
@FitmintClub
.
We are excited to back
@rhaspy92
,
@virenbaid
and
@anuragmeena92
and joined by seed investors
@somani_utsav
, as well as
@sriramkri
,
@ravishnaresh
etc.
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Bit embarrassed and super humbled to be on
@FortuneIndia
#40under40
list. Best part - Aisha made the
#1under1
list!
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Realized I’ve backed 14+ founders from within a 4 yr range of
@iitbombay
, including
@nobrokercom
,
@fynd
,
@officialmudrex
,
@Khatabook
,
@prodigaltech
,
@FitmintClub
,
@letsdivehq
etc.
Coincidence or correlated (ie. something in the water)?
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OH: ‘If you are committed to becoming 1% (or more) better every day, taking criticism seriously but not personally is a big part.’
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Closing the loop on 100% of the tasks assigned to you (work and otherwise) is a superpower.
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Hadn’t seen this list before…
excited to be a personal investor in the top 3 - Scaler, Khatabook and ClassPlus (all 2019 vintage).
Most valuable Indian startups from Sequoia's Surge program
▪️Scaler [InterviewBit]: $710 Mn
▪️Khatabook: $600 Mn
▪️Classplus: $200 Mn
▪️Kutumb: $170 Mn
▪️Bijak: $165 Mn
▪️Trell: $120 Mn
▪️Doubtnut: $120 Mn
▪️Pagarbook: $100 Mn
▪️Plum: $87 Mn
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Traveling in Bangalore is like estimating a software project - ideally 18 minutes, but in the real world it takes an hour (or longer).
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Really excited for
@generalcatalyst
to announce our investment in
@farMart_
and partner w Alekh, Mehtab and team on the journey!
@deepnishar
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"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next."
- Steve Jobs
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Congrats
@pratikpoddar
- could not have happened to a nicer, more founder-focused, more hard working person! Congrats, man 🙌
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Few takeaways from the past few weeks in 🇮🇳, meeting 150+ founders who are building… (1/n)
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I love that
@googlemaps
has started including “Turn past the Starbucks...” or “Stop once you cross Walgreens” in its lingo. Makes it feel like a knowledgeable local is giving directions, not a newbie... and builds trust with every use.
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Fantastic evening in Bangalore! 🇮🇳
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Really grateful to learn from an incredible company, & start of a deep collaboration! Cc
@snapdeal
@AlibabaGroup
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Is there a experience that's 85% faster? Introducing Snap-lite (across all mobile browsers).
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Pet Peeve: using meetings to read from slides/docs, simply because everyone (other the creator) does not know what's in them. Best practice: sharing pre-read the night before so the meeting is a real discussion of the issues, with context available to all.
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Folks who were impacted by the RIF
@beondeck
this week -
Thank YOU for supporting the growth of the community! Happy to spend time 1-1 supporting yours, as you figure out what’s next for you.
Pls @ me or ping me offline.
@david__booth
@eriktorenberg
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This website is free.
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Starting a
@calm
subscription and a daily (!) meditation practice is probably the best 2019 move for me! Happy to share more specifically how I’ve grown (and how hard the journey has been) if there is interest!
#mindfulness
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Apna Time Aayega? 🙌
#GullyBoy
has been selected as India’s official entry to the 92nd Oscar Awards.
#apnatimeaayega
Thank you to the film federation and congratulations
#Zoya
@kagtireema
@ritesh_sid
@RanveerOfficial
@aliaa08
@SiddhantChturvD
@kalkikanmani
& cast, crew and hip hop crew. 🕺🏻
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Rajeev was a pillar of support to many young founders, including me and our team at Aeroprise. OG!
Left: Google Founders
Right: Their mentor - Professor Rajeev Motwani
Professor Motwani (IITK CS) mentored Larry & Sergey grad students at Stanford & helped form Google (+co-authored PageRank)
He died in 2009
He mentored many other startups
It's important to remember him
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There’s room for improvement (esp spelling own name), but 4 yo headed in the right direction IMO 🐶👧👶
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Great to grab a meal after a long time with Kanwal Rekhi! One of the true pioneers, and among the first founders of Indian origin to take a company (Excelan) public. Thank you for having us
@PriyaRangarajan
🙏🙏
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Loved welcoming
@ShereenBhan
to
@generalcatalyst
as part of the 20 year anniversary of her “Young Turks” show!
@deepnishar
@CNBCTV18News
@CNBCYoungTurks
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Happy Diwali 🪔 to everyone celebrating! May this day be a reminder that light ultimately trumps the dark!
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every company should be so lucky to have a CTO as hands-on as
@andreasklinger
- submitted an issue and 20 min later, fixed + RCA shared. 👏
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If you believe in the ‘Bharat’ thesis, then getting on a train to go see it is the first step to make it happen!
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Prediction -
@SaaStrAnnual
will move to 🇮🇳 next year!
What an incredible continent of founders who are visiting 🙌
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Brand new
@Snapdeal
mobile web experience out - with new design language and vernac interface
#designmafia
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I grew up in India, where your circumstances at birth often define your prospects in life. So when I read 'Only the Paranoid Survive', Andy Grove’s memoir about leading Intel, I knew I had to find a way to Silicon Valley – a meritocracy where immigrants could change the world.
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Fun night with some of India’s coolest entrepreneurs who I am happy to call friends!
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Excited to finally meet this big guy in person - true community builder and an inspiration in terms of making your dreams happen!
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[From me] 2018: A look-back at 4 early stage investing hypotheses.
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@rajshamani
Same as everywhere else -
☝️Lack of PMF
✌️Founder conflicts which accelerates lack of PMF
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I threw myself into engineering at
@Stanford
and co-founded a software company just as the dot-com bubble burst. The company survived the tech crash, but adversity taught me that founders need the most support when they are struggling, not just when they are succeeding.
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Big congrats to
@1kunalbahl
on winning ET's "Entrepreneur of the Year" honor for 2015. Super proud!
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Literally one of the simplest and highest leverage podcasts I've listened to on managing -
@AngelList
speaking with
@rabois
-
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Incredibly excited to spend this coming week fostering relationships with the community in 🇮🇳!
@htaneja
@adamvalkin
@deepnishar
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.
@urbanclap
80+ services live on
@Snapdeal
Android app, joining
@zomato
,
@redbus
,
@cleartrip
and
@freecharge
.
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Most B2B SaaS companies’ health is tracked by 5 key metrics –
✅ Bookings
✅ NDR (net dollar retention)
✅ Churn
✅ Time to seats turn up (revenue)
✅ Geographic/global growth
A good product manager/leader can impact many if not all consistently and thoughtfully.
Thread 🧵-
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It’s a pleasure to host so many of our India seed and early growth stage portfolio companies in Silicon Valley this week - to give them a stage, make deep connections with one another and with key leaders here and provide space to reflect!
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Calling founders in 🇮🇳 building interesting AI startups to come spend time with
@bonatsos
and I and the broader
@generalcatalyst
team! We are happy to provide feedback and jam on your awesome ideas.
Sign up here -
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