Anil Gupta

Chris and [[Anil Gupta]] planned logistics for their in-person working trip: Chris arrives Wednesday evening, sessions start at 9am Thursday, meeting at a coffee shop called Maman before heading to WeWork offices in DC, with dinner locked in for Friday the 24th instead of Thursday since Chris already has a separate DC dinner Thursday. They agreed on a loose four-bucket structure for the two days — topic ping-pong through day one, brainstorming a new non-website business idea on day two morning at WeWork, with Anil sending his list of topics/questions by Friday. Anil also gave an update on the Multidots buyout situation with Aslam: they're finalizing a third-party valuation (expected 4-6 weeks out) before either side buys the other out, and the Canada meeting helped clarify positions without fully resolving things.

Standing 1:1 with [[Anil Gupta]], mostly about the Aslam buyout standoff: Aslam's attorney formally rejected Anil's buyout offer and countered with an offer to buy Anil out instead, pushing both sides toward a third-party valuation and possibly Delaware Chancery litigation. Anil is retaining a Delaware attorney and trying to get a private in-person meeting with Aslam. They also spent significant time on a 'start over' thought experiment about what a lean, AI-era agency of 2-3 senior people would look like, and Chris shared that a Florida agency owner informally floated bringing him on for his strategy/network skills rather than web dev. They locked in a planning call for July 9 at 9am ET ahead of Chris's in-person visit.

Chris walked [[Anil Gupta]] through an updated homepage design for [[Multidots]] that reused about 80% of the existing design system with new flexible content blocks (case study pods, expanded FAQ section, book pop-up modal, gradient-inset sections). They agreed to shrink case study pods into a grid with industry filtering tags, and to design the FAQ block so it works either as deep-dive Q&A or standard short-answer FAQ. Chris also shared that he'd used Claude Code to build out reusable custom post types, taxonomies, and a block library for their WordPress starter theme, and offered to share documentation or record a Loom walkthrough for Anil's team.

Meeting · Chris and Anil Gupta planned logistics for their in-person working trip: Chris arrives Wednesday evening, sessions start at 9am Thursday, meeting at a coffee shop called Maman before heading to WeWork offices in DC, with dinner locke...

Meeting · Standing 1:1 with Anil Gupta, mostly about the Aslam buyout standoff: Aslam's attorney formally rejected Anil's buyout offer and countered with an offer to buy Anil out instead, pushing both sides toward a third-party valuation and p...

Meeting · Chris walked Anil Gupta through an updated homepage design for Multidots that reused about 80% of the existing design system with new flexible content blocks (case study pods, expanded FAQ section, book pop-up modal, gradient-ins...

Journal · The final day with Anil Gupta

Journal · Day one with Anil Gupta