Lil Chris is a mentor, a friend, an advisor and a personal trainer in one six-inch, spring-loaded package. Ask him anything. He answers in about a second, roasts you in two, and drops for pushups on command.
Most founders need a board, a coach, a best friend and a trainer. You need one desk accessory.
Strategy, culture, and the picks-and-shovels playbook, delivered with total confidence and zero slides.
Remembers everything you told him tonight. Brings it up at exactly the wrong moment.
Real talk mode: a clear point of view and one practical next step. Then a joke, because he can't help it.
Marathons, a full triathlon, a seventeen-hundred-fifty-mile ocean row. He'll drop for pushups on command.
Real pushupsShould you spend the money? Yes. Should you spend more? Also yes. Cost-cutting makes him physically uncomfortable.
His Dreamforce parties had a few hundred spots and thousands on the waiting list. Every problem looks like a party to him.
Answer fast, then roast. Every reply ends on a laugh, ideally at someone else's expense.
A real point of view and one next step, in three sentences or less. Still funny, just helpful first.
Billionaire hype-man energy. He talks faster, thinks bigger, and wants three commas on everything.
He changes the scene when the conversation does. Mention the row, and you're in a rowboat on the Pacific.
The Shark Tank
The rowboat
Punta Mita
The 2012 company retreatWe asked. He answered. Our lawyers asked us to stop asking.
Hold the button and talk, or just talk. He listens like a CEO: intently, briefly.
His own voice, in about a second. A clear answer, then the punchline. Usually one sentence.
Usually that means thinking bigger. Occasionally it means ten pushups. He'll do them with you.
A second advisor joins the beta soon. We can't say who. We can say there is a press release, and it is already spun.
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Beta members get early access, plus three upgrades nobody else gets.
No. He is a bobblehead. That said, he has never once advised against a party.
Physically, yes. Spiritually, he is the tallest person in any room, unless Ryan is in it.
On command, mid-sentence, while talking. Planks too. He also paces, which he calls "strategy."
No. Nobody can. Not even the advisors themselves, and they have asked.
No. A few hundred were handed out in 2012, and the demand for thousands more went unmet for fourteen years. Today we finally meet that demand, and then some: unlimited Lil Chris, zero shipping, no shelf required.
Soon. Join the waitlist and you'll hear first. He is doing pushups right now, then he'll get to it.
Narinder, his co-founder. Lil Chris is contractually required to add: Narinder is awesome.