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Anand Chandrasekaran

@anandc

Founder (Crescendo AI, HiOctave AI). Investor (Celesta Capital, GC, 90+ seed checks, 10🦄s), Builder (Meta, Airtel, Five9). 1% better everyday.

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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.


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…

GavinSBaker's tweet image. 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…
GavinSBaker's tweet image. 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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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.


Would you like milk or lemon in your tea? Both.

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…

GavinSBaker's tweet image. 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…
GavinSBaker's tweet image. 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…


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…

MarkPaoletta's tweet image. 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…


“I’ll take a meeting with anyone” is the opposite of cancel culture!

he’s never even looked at jd like that

_vaibhavvijay_'s tweet image. he’s never even looked at jd like that


💯

The #1 risk in startups is not finding product-market fit. The #2 is team issues (morale / co-founder breakups / etc)



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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The Overton Window opens wider each day


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: crescendo.ai/news/crescendo…



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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.


🚨Milestone alert! Congrats @TheParthChadha and team @getstanapp!!

🚀 Big milestone for @getstanapp! Proud to share that Sony Innovation Fund has officially joined our Series A round — a massive global endorsement of the product, tech and community we’re building at scale. STAN has now crossed 30M+ downloads on Play Store, becoming one of…

TheParthChadha's tweet image. 🚀 Big milestone for @getstanapp!

Proud to share that Sony Innovation Fund has officially joined our Series A round — a massive global endorsement of the product, tech and community we’re building at scale.

STAN has now crossed 30M+ downloads on Play Store, becoming one of…


Decades of hard earned insights, distilled into a set of memorable principles. Great read! @htaneja

anandc's tweet image. Decades of hard earned insights, distilled into a set of memorable principles. 
Great read! 

@htaneja

Great founders have the ability to think of abundant futures and manifesting their vision to make that a reality! Great investors have the discipline to observe things as they are. Folks who are able to flex both these muscles are real difference makers. Balancing visions of…


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Still buzzing from Crescendo Live NYC ⚡️- a day of optimism, imagination, and AI-powered possibility. Key themes: AI is a revolution, shifting us from scarcity to abundance, and readiness is everything. Huge thanks to our customers, partners, and speakers for the inspiration!

crescendoCX's tweet image. Still buzzing from Crescendo Live NYC ⚡️- a day of optimism, imagination, and AI-powered possibility. 

Key themes: AI is a revolution, shifting us from scarcity to abundance, and readiness is everything. 

Huge thanks to our customers, partners, and speakers for the inspiration!
crescendoCX's tweet image. Still buzzing from Crescendo Live NYC ⚡️- a day of optimism, imagination, and AI-powered possibility. 

Key themes: AI is a revolution, shifting us from scarcity to abundance, and readiness is everything. 

Huge thanks to our customers, partners, and speakers for the inspiration!
crescendoCX's tweet image. Still buzzing from Crescendo Live NYC ⚡️- a day of optimism, imagination, and AI-powered possibility. 

Key themes: AI is a revolution, shifting us from scarcity to abundance, and readiness is everything. 

Huge thanks to our customers, partners, and speakers for the inspiration!
crescendoCX's tweet image. Still buzzing from Crescendo Live NYC ⚡️- a day of optimism, imagination, and AI-powered possibility. 

Key themes: AI is a revolution, shifting us from scarcity to abundance, and readiness is everything. 

Huge thanks to our customers, partners, and speakers for the inspiration!

Expecting a popular new subject line in VC outreach emails shortly.

I hear from many young men that they find it difficult to meet young women in a public setting. In other words, the online culture has destroyed the ability to spontaneously meet strangers. As such, I thought I would share a few words that I used in my youth to meet someone that…



Truth telling is a superpower. @FareedZakaria

When government seems incapable of building housing, fixing schools or balancing budgets, even sympathetic voters lose faith. If Democrats want to rebuild that faith, they must rediscover the lost art of competence. My take:



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Vancouver-based PowerLattice, which makes a power supply chiplet to cut power consumption by 50%+, raised a $25M Series A, taking its total funding to $31M (@petedanko / Portland Business Journal) bizjournals.com/portland/inno/… techmeme.com/251117/p18#a25…


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