Anand Chowdhary

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2026 will be the Year of Discovery

December 29, 2025

I turned 28 yesterday and like years past, I wanted to reflect on this past year and plan my theme for 2026. But 2025 was different; this isn’t a typical growth year to celebrate, this is a year with a clean ending, introspection, and searching for what comes next. Past themes The theme system was popularized by CGP Grey in the Cortex podcast. I’ve been using it for years as an alternative to New Year’s

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The Life of Pabio

November 25, 2025

This is the second chapter in my five-year retrospective. After accidentally founding Koj, we somehow convinced Y Combinator to let a furniture company into their batch (I still don’t know how) and embarked on what I can only describe as the wildest operational rollercoaster of my life. Convincing Silicon Valley that sofas are SaaS We weren’t building the next frontier AI model or developer tool, we were arguing about ottoman colors and d

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Accidentally founding Koj

November 23, 2025

This is the first chapter in a five-year retrospective about how two founders who’d never met in person built a furniture subscription company, got into Y Combinator, discovered we were losing money on every sofa, pivoted to AI in 48 hours, built the first AI SDR, and eventually sold everything. I’m writing this for myself as much as for anyone else - it’s the kind of post-mortem I wish I’d read before starting. A real meet-cute My cofounder Carlo Badini created a new Slack workspace

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