We’re looking forward to introducing you to Krish Chopra. Check out our conversation below.
Good morning Krish, it’s such a great way to kick off the day – I think our readers will love hearing your stories, experiences and about how you think about life and work. Let’s jump right in? What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
I start my day with a workout and a quick meditation to get my head and energy right. After a fast shower, I dive into my highest-priority emails while the day is still quiet. It keeps me focused, centered, and ahead of whatever’s coming next.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Krish Chopra, and I’m the Founder & CEO of NPHub, a healthcare based company in Atlanta. We help Nurse Practitioners enter the workforce faster and more confidently—first by securing their required clinical placements and now by helping them find their ideal jobs through our hiring platform, NPHire.
What makes us unique is that we don’t just place students and move on—we’ve built the largest preceptor network in the country, and we’re now supporting NPs across their entire career journey: education → clinical experience → employment. We exist because the current system is fragmented and overwhelmingly difficult to navigate, especially for nurses who are trying to advance their careers while working full-time and managing families. We’re fixing that bottleneck at scale.
NPHub started in 2017 after seeing how many qualified, motivated nurses were blocked from graduating simply because they couldn’t find preceptors. Today, we’re a rapidly growing company with a global team of 100, serving NP students nationwide, partnering with universities, and working with major healthcare systems hiring NPs. At a high level, we’re building the ecosystem that supports the next generation of advanced practice providers—and making it easier to become and succeed as a Nurse Practitioner in America.
A bit about me: I’m a first-generation Indian-American entrepreneur based in Atlanta and have founded multiple companies in healthcare and education since 2014. I’ve always been driven by building solutions to real-world bottlenecks rather than following traditional career paths. My work is guided by a simple belief: when you remove barriers for people who want to make a difference—especially in healthcare—you don’t just change careers, you change communities. That’s what motivates me every day.
Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. What part of you has served its purpose and must now be released?
The part of me that needs to be released is the constant hustler—the version of me who built things through sheer force, speed, and personal effort. That mindset was essential early in my founder journey: saying yes to everything, outworking everyone in the room, doing 12 roles myself, and treating every problem like something I had to personally solve. That energy got the company off the ground.
But as a CEO leading a 100-person organization, that same instinct now creates bottlenecks. The company doesn’t need me to grind harder—it needs me to think longer-term, build systems, empower leaders, and elevate others to own outcomes. The “hustler” got us here, but the “strategic, calm CEO” will take us where we’re going.
Now it’s less about solving all the problems and more about identifying the right problems—the ones that unlock everything else. My focus has shifted from doing more to choosing better.
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Suffering taught me that the real goal isn’t just achieving success—it’s becoming the kind of person capable of sustaining it. Success is a milestone; suffering is what reshapes you into someone who can handle growth, pressure, and responsibility at the next level.
One of my core values is constant growth—1% better every day—and that starts with myself. I can’t ask my team to evolve, stretch, and level up if I’m not doing the same work internally. Hard moments force that growth. They expose your gaps, your ego, your habits, and the parts of you that have to change in order to lead better.
Success validates who you are today.
Suffering forces you to become who you need to be tomorrow.
It taught me to love the process, not just the result—the becoming, not just the achievement. Because the real fulfillment isn’t in the win—it’s in the transformation that happens on the way there.
Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
A truth I believe that most people don’t agree with is this: everything is my responsibility. Not in a self-blaming way, but in a way that gives me agency. Full ownership moves me out of a victim mindset and into a problem-solving one. If something is “the world’s fault,” I can’t change it. If it’s my responsibility, I can.
Most people think accountability follows success. I think accountability creates success—it brings clarity on what needs to change and how to get better.
If something isn’t working—whether it’s my leadership, a team outcome, or a company result—there’s always something I could have done differently in how I hired, communicated, or set expectations.
If something is in your control then you gain the power to change anything.
Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. What is the story you hope people tell about you when you’re gone?
I hope people say I proved that you can succeed by outworking and outpacing your competition—not through shortcuts, but through effort, obsession, and caring more than others are willing to. But just as importantly, I hope people say I did it while being myself.
I don’t want to be one person at work and someone different at home. There’s just one version of me. The same energy, values, and intensity show up everywhere—family, friends, team, community. No masks or performance. Just the real thing, consistently.
If there’s a legacy, I’d want it to be simple:
You can win by being yourself and you can get there through effort, discipline, and speed—without ever pretending to be someone you’re not.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.nphub.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nphub_/?hl=en
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishchopra/
