reha kamdar

loves fashion, makeup and food! married to my best friend @jinen! mommy to @diya and Kira

[reha kamdar @reha]

I’m so proud of Jinen. He put his heart & soul into Gather over the last ~4 years as co-founder. I’m so happy Gather will continue on, and Figma has no idea how lucky they are!

[Jinen Kamdar @jinen]

big news: we're spinning out gather into a profitable independent company, and our AI team is joining figma!

building gather has been the honor of a lifetime. i'm deeply grateful to the team and customers who made it all possible.

i’ll be a townsperson forever, but i’m excited to become a figmate soon 🫡.

more in our founders' letter below.

[Sara Mauskopf @sm]

Congrats to Jinen and the Gather team! This kind of outcome is so hard to pull off - what a win for everyone!

[Jinen Kamdar @jinen]

big news: we're spinning out gather into a profitable independent company, and our AI team is joining figma!

building gather has been the honor of a lifetime. i'm deeply grateful to the team and customers who made it all possible.

i’ll be a townsperson forever, but i’m excited to become a figmate soon 🫡.

more in our founders' letter below.

[Jinen Kamdar @jinen]

i'm eternally grateful that i get to wake up everyday and work with a kickass team to build some of the most creative and beautiful software we can in service of helping people connect in new, meaningful ways.

this place brings me so much purpose and joy, and i sincerely believe i can do my life’s work here.

thank you so much @flippnflops @k_m_y_l @gather_town for the opportunity and for the support💜

[Phillip Wang @flippnflops]

In the last few years, @gather_town has been “refounded” multiple times, from going after our vision of the Metaverse at the start of the pandemic, to refocusing on remote work and rebuilding the entire team to get there.

@jinen has been a lynchpin in refounding Gather, and for that reason, @k_m_y_l and I are excited to name him a co-founder!

We first met Jinen 3 years ago, and from the very first week, he was changing Gather in big ways. He helped us realize what it’d take to actually become a successful work product, and made some big bets on the product that ended up being totally correct, but which the rest of us didn’t have the conviction to make. He also played a huge part in defining the culture we have today centered around hunger and excellence in craft. These values are now strongly embraced by every member of our team, make Gather the most energizing to work at than ever before, and will likely be the pillars of our organization for many years to come.

As we’ve gotten to work with Jinen more, Kumail and I have felt he possesses the intangibles that make him a cofounder rather than just a successful, hired executive. He believes in our mission with every fiber of his being. So much so that I’ve found myself inspired by our own mission in ways I didn’t know possible, given how he frames it. Looking towards the future, he shares my hope to work on this mission for 10+ more years, if not to be the last jobs of our careers.

On a personal side, this has been incredibly meaningful for Kumail and I. From the beginning, our hope was to create an organization that was much larger than the two of us, and that we could find other people who would be equal stewards in our shared purpose. We’re very lucky to have found that in Jinen. And looking forward, we hope to find more and more talented people to take ownership in our cause.

To our customers, both current and future. Please know that our team is working extremely hard on a next generation version of the product that we believe will solve the largest issues we hear from you all. The current product is unfinished, and there’s a ton more to improve. Stay tuned!

[reha kamdar @reha]

@satanjeev 💔

[Jinen Kamdar @jinen]

self-reviews be like

[reha kamdar @reha]

@jinen @LilTunechi 🙄…I am glad you mentioned my name before @LilTunechi.

[reha kamdar @reha]

@jinen Grey’s all the way!!! BRB…about to go watch that grey’s episode and cry my heart out for the millionth time all over again! 😭😭😭

[Jinen Kamdar @jinen]

i’m completely obsessed with our new reactions bar on @gather_town 🔥

[Jinen Kamdar @jinen]

excerpts from one of my all-time favorite articles on leadership. joy & intensity are truly a winning combination. 💪🏽

https://t.co/GOJu2JdBf3

[Jinen Kamdar @jinen]

lord give me the confidence of an aunty singing a bhajan 🙏🏽

[Sara Mauskopf @sm]

This is the first school shooting where I’ve had a child the same age as the victims.

-My heart is breaking for these families

-19 children dead and hundreds more whose lives have been destroyed by witnessing it

-I hope my daughter doesn’t find out this happened

-Ban guns

[reha kamdar @reha]

He’s a superstar, and he is now joining @gather_town as their CPO. @gather_town and @flippnflops are amazingly lucky to have him and I couldn’t be more proud of him. ❤️

[reha kamdar @reha]

People: I never write threads, but @jinen doesn’t brag enough so let me do it for him! As you may have heard, he just resigned from Modern Health. In his time there, he worked around the clock to grow the company into the success it is now.

[reha kamdar @reha]

With Jinen as Chief Product Officer, they went from Series A to Series D unicorn 🦄 and 30x-ed the value. On top of that, his team grew ten fold and they really love him, just like they did at BuzzFeed and Twitter. Hearing “best leader ever” from his team is not unusual!

[Gather 🍇 @gather_town]

Welcome @jinen! 🎉

[Jinen Kamdar @jinen]

in terms of what's next: i'm so excited to share that i'm joining @gather_town as CPO!

i've been so inspired by the wildly creative vision that @flippnflops and team are working toward to make hanging & working online more human and more fun. see you in the metaverse! 🥳

[Jinen Kamdar @jinen]

after an *exhilarating* 2.5 years, today marks my final day at @modernhealthco.

i'm so grateful to @AFriedensohn for the opportunity of a lifetime. i agonized over this decision as this truly has been one of the most meaningful companies and teams i've ever been a part of. ♥️

[Jinen Kamdar @jinen]

why do our brilliant plans to “tire out the kids” so that they “sleep early” always result in us twice as tired as them w no change to bedtime schedule