Chandra Challa

product @deel. prev: head of product @nordpass, @soundcloud, @freshworksinc. doing ai evals on the weekends 🙌

[Chandra Challa @cbnchalla]

@thierryEdde44 @Bouazizalex @deel @DanWestgarth @Olek_Shtanoprud congrats on the launch

[Thierry Edde @thierryEdde44]

Stablecoin payouts are live on @deel for employees.

Over 5 years ago, I joined @deel as the first payments hire. I spent the first few years building out the fiat payment infrastructure that moves billions to workers across 150+ countries. The more I watched money move, the more I saw how broken cross border payments are.

Stablecoins fix this.

10,000+ contractors already get paid in stablecoins on @deel.

Today we’re extending this to full-time employees.

This is how payroll should be.

[Chandra Challa @cbnchalla]

@ericw @ridewithdance @swapfiets congratulations 🙌 @ericw

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

If you're stuck in the Bay Area tech rat race / psychosis, make time to travel to other places.

Go to a small town in Europe or visit Asia - you'll see that life can be about much more than whether you're IC7 or IC8 or what company you work for.

Don't be the person to put on your tombstone: "He got divorced and neglected his kids but at least he made D2 at FAANG"

[Chandra Challa @cbnchalla]

@lotte_verheyden @annabellschfr any plans to have a workshop in berlin. the theory and with concrete examples. would happily spend my weekend attending it and learning everything evals

[Chandra Challa @cbnchalla]

hey @linear this icon makes me think that my local camera will open if i click it. 🙈

a better icon maybe, please?
@karrisaarinen

[Chandra Challa @cbnchalla]

@james406 just ordered a venti rag architecture with oat milk. it’s giving grounded embeddings

[shadcn @shadcn]

Every friend I talk to is overworked since AI. Working weekends. Always on their phone prompting. Kinda sad.

[Chandra Challa @cbnchalla]

switched a personal project to @linear. such a breeze of fresh air to have agents and humans work together in one workspace 🖤🤍

[Alex Bouaziz @Bouazizalex]

Deel turns 7 today 🎉

It’s a moment to pause and reflect - not just on how far we’ve come, but on the people who made it possible.

What started as a simple idea - to make it easier for anyone to work with anyone, anywhere - has grown into something much bigger than we could have imagined.

Along the way, we’ve faced challenges, learned constantly, and pushed through moments that tested us. And through it all, one thing has remained constant: the strength of our team.

To every single person who has been part of this journey - thank you. Your ambition, resilience, and commitment are what built Deel. It’s the late nights, the bold decisions, the constant drive to improve, and the belief that we can keep raising the bar that got us here.

A special thank you to my amazing co-founder Shuo Wang, my amazing exec team @DanWestgarth @YaronLavi @pbouaziz @thejoekauffman my amazing leadership team, the whole @deel team, and everyone building this together has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.

I couldn’t have asked for better partners on this journey.

And of course, to our customers and partners who trust us to power their global teams - thank you for growing with us and pushing us to be better every day.

We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve built in 7 years. But in many ways, it still feels like day one. There’s so much more to do, so much more to improve, and so many more opportunities ahead of us.

The mission continues - and we’re just getting started 🚀

[Alex Bouaziz @Bouazizalex]

We just wrapped The Big @deel 2026 - and this one felt different. 🚀

Today is also Deel's 7th birthday. 7 years, 40,000+ companies, $22B in payroll processed.

This year we connected every stage of the worker lifecycle into one platform. Here's what we launched 👇🧵

[Chris Pedregal @cjpedregal]

There are some tweets out there saying that Granola is trying to lock down access to your data.

Tldr; we are actually trying to become more open, not closed. We’re launching a public API next week to complement our MCP. Read on for context.

A couple months ago, we noticed that some folks had reversed engineered our local cache so they could access their meeting data.

Our cache was not built for this (it can change at any point), so we launched our MCP to serve this need. The MCP gives full access to your notes and transcripts (all time for paid users, time restricted for free users). MCP usage has exploded since launch, so we felt good about it.

A week ago, we updated how we store data in our cache and broke the workarounds. This is on us. Stupidly, we thought we had solved these use cases well enough with our MCP.

We’ve now learned that while MCPs are great for connecting to tools like Claude or chatGPT, they don’t meet your needs for agents running locally or for data export / pipeline work.

So we’re going to fix this for you ASAP. First, we’ll launch a public API next week to make it easier for you to pull your data.

Second, we’ll figure out how to make Granola work better for agents running locally. Whether that’s expanding our MCP, launching a CLI, a local API, etc. The industry is moving quickly here, so we’d appreciate your suggestions.

We want Granola data to be accessible and useful wherever you need it. Stay tuned.

[Chandra Challa @cbnchalla]

@peer_rich need to get me one of those eu-inc caps

[Chandra Challa @cbnchalla]

@Saboo_Shubham_ this is interesting

[Peer Richelsen @peer_rich]

we are still hiring a scale engineer at https://t.co/j2iMUvRyYq

if you enjoy scaling systems

https://t.co/KSrcFNWMBD

[Chandra Challa @cbnchalla]

@james406 that’s huge congrats

[Chandra Challa @cbnchalla]

just need two features.
- sync my local directory to the cloud
- and bring me a mobile app ;)

[Chandra Challa @cbnchalla]

been experimenting with a bunch of tools(@opencode openai codex, @craftdoc agents @NotionHQ etc) to help build my product and personal os.

and @warpdotdev is hands on the best tool 🙌. made me come back to it every time i leave to experiment with a diff setup

[Chandra Challa @cbnchalla]

@peer_rich haha😅

[Chandra Challa @cbnchalla]

😅

[Luke Wroblewski @LukeW]

PMs using AI “now I don’t have to wait on designers for mockups!”

Designers using AI “now I don’t have to wait on developers for code!”

Developers using AI “now I don’t have to wait on PMs for requirements !”