Kanchan Kumar

Co-founder & CEO @BankOnTruly | Multi-currency accounts & cross-border payments | All in one platform that meets companies where they operate: globally

[Kanchan Kumar @kanchankumar]

Look who showed up for coffee & chat at our booth:
Minister @VictorFedeli & Minister @ToddJMcCarthy

[Kanchan Kumar @kanchankumar]

Don’t line up to pay for the coffee at the @CollisionHQ today!

Instead come to @BankOnTruly booth at the Ontario Pavilion, get some hot Nespresso coffee and meet two hot baristas - yours truly & @sandeeptodi

Oh we also talk about APIs for global banking & payments 😉

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@BeingPractical @RaiseTheBarHQ More power to you PJ! You are a reminder that good things happen to good people.
Onwards & upwards 🚀

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@pitdesi @ritwikpavan Big @peakdesignltd fan. Have used their backpack since 2016 - Kickstarter time! Not just that the backpack is the best, their life time guarantee is for real.

[Avinash Raghava 🇮🇳 @avinashraghava]

https://t.co/yoBEkflWKP

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@TosinAdekoya Can’t see your email. Pls resend or DM

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@ku1deep 💯 This + the PD backpack

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@ku1deep You know that you could have gotten it cheaper ;) Right @helloanand?

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@pitdesi Happy Diwali Sheel & Amruta

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@pitdesi @rabois How do we bet on your bet!

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@ku1deep That’s a mouthful

[Sanket Shah @_sankyy]

If you missed @invideoOfficial at the @OpenAI dev day! 🙌🙌

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💯
“One of the best gifts of startups are the people you get to meet along the way.”

[Tara Viswanathan @TaraViswanathan]

When we were starting Rupa, we hired a girl just out of college to do operations work for us.

Shortly after we hired her, her dad messaged me on LinkedIn saying how excited his daughter was about Rupa.

Very few teammates dads did this so it stood out. 😂

Over the years he would message me telling me how grateful he was that his daughter had found Rupa and how much she loved it.

This girl was a rockstar and grew into a lead on our operations team. Every now and then I would text her dad telling him how amazing she was and how lucky we were to have her.

The other day I got a message saying he was going to be in SF and wanted to finally meet the person who made such an impact on his daughter.

It felt obvious to say yes and make it work.

Anyway, we got coffee the other day and it was one of the best, unexpectedly inspiring, mornings I’ve had.

He (a German immigrant) was in town to show his 81 year old mentor and friend (the person who gave him his first job as a kid in Germany) Yosemite. It was one of his mentor’s lifelong goals to see it.

They stopped in sf to grab coffee with me before exploring Yosemite on their own.

Legends.

Turns out, he wasn’t just “my teammate’s dad from Michigan”. He had actually risked it all on his own startup, bootstrapping a data center and cloud services company in the 2000s and having a very successful run for 20+ years (still going today though he exited it).

He and his 81 year old mentor (who turns out is a business legend in Germany) spent 2 hours giving me life advice on work and family and risk taking.

An unexpectedly wonderful morning.

Anyway, I stand by the fact that one of the best gifts of startups are the people you get to meet along the way.

Including your teammate’s dads and their mentors.

[Kanchan Kumar @kanchankumar]

@harnidhish Not my pet, but she adopted me for a few days

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💯 Don’t part ways on a bad note. Applies to both sides of the equation

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

There's so much advice out there, maybe here's my best advice of all:

🙏Never Leave on Bad Terms🫂

Somehow, this became common in the 2021 era, and never went away. Most folks, from the CRO + CMO level to the IC + SDR level:

- Just disappear and leave with no notice, just a Slack note or DM and then gone that day
- Write snarky things on LinkedIn / X
- In general, burn bridges on the way out, often without even realizing it

I get it. Layoffs are now omnipresent. Pressure is higher. The world has changed. Maybe "loyalty" is a thing of a bygone era. Maybe it never existed at all. Maybe companies don't do what it takes to earn any loyalty anymore. Probably they don't

But my advice is this: imagine your goodbye lunch.

Remember those? When everyone would take folks out when they gave their notice? Joke about the good times, and the less good times? How everyone would thank them, including their manager.

Imagine that. Leave that way.

Not because you need to, or own them anything. You don't owe them anything. But because you'll see them again. Not next week. But down the road.

Most of us go from startup to startup, leader to leader. Reference checks aren't what they once were, it's not that. It's that someday, you'll see them again. And you may wish ... you'd left on better terms.

[Kanchan Kumar @kanchankumar]

@mrjain “nice” 😅

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@harnidhish Happy to read and contribute to the thought process.

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@harnidhish One of those pieces, which once you read, you start replaying your entire life and it explains many things! It’s brilliant Harnidh

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@ku1deep Beautifully written Kuldeep!
This is one of those treks which I miss the most.

I felt bad about not being able to make it and dumping a new guy on you at the last moment, but only until I heard the story of how it went 😅

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@jackerhack @helloanand @ku1deep @AjeyGore @sgaurav Interestingly I haven’t faced this issue. I have 20L and MBA 13.5 + sometimes an iPad fits well.
Been using it for 9 years now!

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@helloanand @AjeyGore @ku1deep Totally! Nothing comes close.

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@camrrowe @keenanwyrobek @joshuabrowder @jaentwistle @cory @ItzSuds Congrats Cam!! And that’s a f’ing amazing pace!