Chathri Ali

CEO & Co-Founder of Accel Health / Previously GTM Exec @klaviyo / @HamptonFounders member / Fan of USC Trojans, LA Chargers,.

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@pavelhegler @claudeai First print design for marketing

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Just shipped my first design product using @claudeai code and I’m blown away. It pulls context directly from your brand design system, so everything stays perfectly on-brand and print-ready. Edits are effortless. Hard to imagine going back to Canva. #claudedesign

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@rabahrahil Ton of B2B SaaS founders in the @HamptonFounders actually. Lots of folks to learn from and several who are Series A/B and exited.

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First @HamptonFounders retreat in the books! @thesamparr you’ve created an incredible community of genuine, kind and accomplished founders. I left with a new crew of founder besties but also some real revenue opportunities. Perfect balance of impact. Can’t wait till next time!

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Latest podcast appearance in the books! Gave my advice to early employees at startups: quickly build trust with the founders, cross pollination across teams, becoming a product expert and asking more questions than you answer. Full episode coming soon! #startups

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Accel Health won because our product was better, our team took the time to educate them on the process, and we were honest about timelines from day one. We fix problems that other credentialing startups simply couldn't do at scale... 🚀 I love a good win!

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We just won a head-to-head evaluation against a credentialing company that's raised significant venture capital.

The prospect ran a scoring matrix across multiple vendors, looking at credentialing automation quality, pricing, customer service and implementation.

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We caught issues upfront that would have delayed their credentialing by months & explained exactly what they needed to get started.

Our competitors don't do this. We've been told they lack transparency and don't communicate what's actually needed until it's too late.

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@TheMattBerman @openclaw @GoogleAds Paid

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@cjpedregal Thanks for the update @cjpedregal ! @meetgranola has been a game-changing tool for our team. Really appreciate you updating your MCP!

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One of the most popular spots at #NVIDIAGTC convention was their “Build-A-Claw” tent, where attendees could try out @nvidia #NemoClaw, a new open-source software for creating AI agents based on the popular #OpenClaw. Definitely going to try this out. https://t.co/F3HT4pf4ci

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Oh wow okay we’re not that far away.. https://t.co/Lv9LilzvtK

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Watching a how to go Claude + SEO post while ChatGPT plans my next trip in the background while I am ironing my laundry is my new Sunday morning norm. .. and also highlights I’m very ready for a Rosie the robot to do my laundry. Are we there yet @Figure_robot ?

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@rabahrahil That was an excellent ad

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Awesome example of strong leadership and wanting to take care of early employees. Would love to see more later stage startups do this.

[Akshay Kothari @akothari]

We just held a tender that allowed current and former @NotionHQ employees to sell a portion of their vested shares at an $11B valuation.

As part of the tender, we also removed the one-year vesting cliff on options, so almost every Notion employee had the opportunity to participate.

We applied the same rules to every employee, whether you’re our most recent hire or a co-founder.

Huge thanks to Sequoia and Index for doubling down on their commitment to Notion, and we’re thrilled to welcome GIC as our newest shareholder. Given our explosive growth in APAC, we couldn’t have found a better partner.

Our industry has come a long way in how it thinks about employee secondaries. Personally, it’s incredibly gratifying to see our team able to participate in this way.

For some of our longer-tenured employees, these tenders have helped them pay off loans or buy their first home. That kind of security meaningfully changes how people think about their work and how long-term they can be in building the company.

Finally, I’m deeply grateful to the team for the craft, intensity, and consistency they bring every quarter. That work shows up in the product and in the results. The ambition ahead is even bigger. Let's keep building!

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[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

Most people have no idea what it actually takes to be a founder. They talk about vision, grit, or passion. Those words are props.

What you really sign up for is a life where every decision feels like it costs something real. You will spend years being misunderstood. By your team, your family, even the people you hire to help you. You will fail in public and still need to keep the energy up in private. Every founder lives with the weight of knowing that you can do everything right and still get crushed by luck, timing, or somebody else’s mistake.

Founders aren’t braver than anyone else. They just get used to uncertainty, then stop waiting for clarity. Most of your wins won’t feel like wins at all. The first revenue will be too small. The first team will outgrow you or leave. The first product that feels right will barely matter to the market. You will doubt yourself in private, sometimes every week. The founders who last figure out how to keep moving while the ground shifts underneath them.

Most outsiders want the founder badge but none of the scars. They want the upside, not the drag. The hardest part is sticking around after every plan gets blown up and you have to rebuild with less optimism and more scar tissue. What makes it work isn’t relentless hustle or some mythical trait. It’s learning to make peace with constant discomfort, and then making decisions anyway.

If you need constant reassurance, you’ll give up before the real work begins. If you want everyone to like you, you’ll never make the calls that matter. If you can’t handle months where nothing feels certain, this life will eat you alive.

But if you can hold your own in chaos, get better at being wrong, and still want to show up and try again, you just might have a shot at building something that matters.

That’s what it actually takes. And nobody cares until you make it work.

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@rabahrahil That is indeed pretty damn cool! 🏈

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@rtenbrink1 Hey Rachel - think I saw you at the MXV event last week. Did you capture this from the Build in NYC panel? Also totally agree!

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