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  "markdown": "Interim President, Kandra Labs (since May 2026).\n\nKim Vandiver joined Kandra Labs as interim president in May 2026 to run operations during Zulip's leadership transition and lead the search for its next leadership. She was previously director of operations at VaccinateCA.\n\n## What Kim builds\n\n- [Zulip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zulip.md), graded C, 61.5/100, in Work \u0026 productivity. Zulip is open-source team chat organised into channels and topics, from Kandra Labs, hosted as Zulip Cloud or self-hosted. Agents reach it through a REST API with bot accounts, an events queue and Python and JavaScript client libraries. Interim President, Kandra Labs (since May 2026), researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Alya Abbott](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/alya-abbott/), Director, Zulip Foundation; long-time product lead with a cofounder-like role from 2021 to May 2026\n- [Greg Price](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/greg-price/), Director, Zulip Foundation; long-time mobile team lead with a cofounder-like role from 2017 to May 2026\n- [Tim Abbott](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tim-abbott/), Founder; project leader from 2015 to May 2026; director, Zulip Foundation\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Kim Vandiver?\n\nKim Vandiver joined Kandra Labs as interim president in May 2026 to run operations during Zulip's leadership transition and lead the search for its next leadership. She was previously director of operations at VaccinateCA.\n\n### What does Kandra Labs, Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Zulip from Kandra Labs, Inc.. Zulip is open-source team chat organised into channels and topics, from Kandra Labs, hosted as Zulip Cloud or self-hosted. Agents reach it through a REST API with bot accounts, an events queue and Python and JavaScript client libraries.\n\n### How are Kim's tools graded?\n\nZulip is graded C, 61.5 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://zulip.com/\n- https://zulip.com/team/\n- https://zulip.com/help/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulip\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_McKellar\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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