Rehan is the Founder and CEO of Chptr, a startup fixing the way the world remembers people who have passed away. Prior to creating Chptr, he had a long career in music, founding the “Life is Beautiful” festival, and led marketing teams at high-profile Las Vegas hotels. 

Rehan and his team at Chptr are vying for the memorialization space, which up until now has been owned by legacy media obit pages and Facebook timelines. The broader death tech industry is estimated to reach over $128B this year and steadily growing, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rehan’s soulful vision for Chptr is a model for community building around death, based on user behaviors trained by precursor social networks built to chronicle lives.

In this conversation, we discuss how Chptr can reimagine how we memorialize loved ones, the maturation of the social media space, and how On Deck helped him on his founder’s journey.

This episode is for anyone interested in the future of social networks, identifying new problem areas in less-talked-about spaces like deathtech, or anyone, regardless of industry and age, who is interested in being a founder.

 

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