Jatin Chaudhary

CEO · eChai Ventures

Bootstrapped and Profitable, in Media / creator.

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Building

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Hoping to meet

Engineering leaders / CTOs
Product leaders
Growth & marketing leaders
People obsessed with AI workflows

Asking for

Planning Solo Founders Socials at eChai across cities. A lot of founders are building alone. Different stages, different sectors, same grind of carrying it all. Looking forward to connecting with solo founders. 29 Jun
Looking forward to connecting with startup folks in Ahmedabad who play cricket. We are hosting eChai Startup Cricket Night in Ahmedabad this Wednesday night. 23 Jun
I'm looking for first contacts or partners in New York. 12 Jun

Writing

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Khadim Batti, co-founder and CEO of Whatfix, passed away on 1 September.

He co-founded Whatfix with Vara Kumar Namburu in 2014 and built it out of Bengaluru into a global enterprise software company. He was one of the most respected founders in Indian SaaS, and one of the most helpful. He made time for other founders, and was candid about how Whatfix had actually been built, including the years when it did not work.
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Eight eChai gatherings this week across four cities.

Thursday was Ahmedabad. AI Cafe in the evening, and the Women Founders x AI session on the same day.

Today it moves to Pune and Bengaluru. Pune has two. FailCode in the morning at DevX ABZ, where people talk about what did not work. Then the eChai Startup Demo Day at Ideas To Impacts in Baner in the evening. Bengaluru has its eChai Startup Demo Day at Founder Startup House in Koramangala.

Tomorrow is the eChai's Startup Open House. DraperU in Hyderabad and Founder Startup House in Bengaluru, both at 11 am.

The next eChai Startup Demo Day is on 26 September, with 12 cities confirmed so far.

All of it is free to register at eChai.Ventures,
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Umesh Uttamchandani runs DevX. We hold eChai gatherings in their spaces city after city, so for a lot of founders here the name is an address more than a company.

Forty-five minutes with him on Radio LJ 90.8 FM, on how it got built.
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Every Wednesday night we play cricket in Ahmedabad with founder friends at eChai.

Then came one particular Wednesday. One of the guys got out early again and ended up on the losing side again. He was still there for the whole game, and he still came back the next week. But that was the night he decided cricket alone was not going to do it for him.

That is when he told us he plays padel, and that he has been playing it properly for years.

So he started pushing for it. We should try padel, you will all love it. Very generous of him.

Now Thursday night padel is part of the routine, and he wins every week.

Maybe that is what changing the game actually means :-)
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Launching WorldCultureMap.com next week.