Anand Chandrasekaran spent two decades building five global products that each reached 10M+ users as a product leader at companies like Meta, Five9, and Bharti Airtel before becoming a venture investor, giving him an unusually deep operating background that shapes his approach to solving business problems as product and engineering challenges. He has been recognized as the #1 seed investor focused on the India-US corridor three years in a row and later co-founded Crescendo, an AI-first contact center company backed by General Catalyst's Creation Fund, demonstrating his willingness to return to building companies rather than just financing them. Anand Chandrasekaran spent two decades building five global products that each reached 10M+ users as a product leader at companies like Meta, Five9, and Bharti Airtel before becoming a venture investor, giving him an unusually deep operating background that shapes his approach to solving business problems as product and engineering challenges. He has been recognized as the #1 seed investor focused on the India-US corridor three years in a row and later co-founded Crescendo, an AI-first contact center company backed by General Catalyst's Creation Fund, demonstrating his willingness to return to building companies rather than just financing them.