About
RAKESH AGRAWAL
I am Senior Director of Product at Audible.
I have been designing and marketing Internet services since 1993. I have worked at Tellme, AOL Search, uReach Technologies, washingtonpost.com and startribune.com.
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- #tesla how often do you have to explain to Valets how to drive the car? Especially in LA and SF, I’d imagine not much education is required. 2 hours ago
- Wow. 72% of peremptory challenges in Cal study are blacks. 0.5% white. I haven’t studied the methodology, but your… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 hours ago
- #ux man, dashboards have a lot of useless crap these days. they were fixed back in the day and had dummy lights. s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 hours ago
- WTF? Are they do something in particular to encourage options trading? Pricing? Easier approvals? twitter.com/mdudas/status/… 5 hours ago
- How young do you have to be to not know the origin of the word “slide”? 6 hours ago
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Recent Posts
- Lobsterclass – free classes on product management
- Getting down to numbers: quantitative research
- Pricing the COVID-19 vaccine
- Favorite things, day 1: podcasts
- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travels
- Favorite things, day 2: credit cards
- Favorite things, day 3: Hawaii
- Favorite things, day 4: TiVo
- Favorite things, day 5: Alaska Airlines
- Favorite things, day 6: First Republic
Top Posts
- A sample Groupon merchant agreement
- A look at Groupon's extremely lopsided merchant agreement
- About Rakesh Agrawal
- How do you pay for a ride on SF Muni with a $20 and a $1?
- Asking meaningless questions: CBS' faulty poll on TSA screening
- The experience is the product
- Because manholes are round
- 35W bridge collapses in Minneapolis
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Daily Archives: February 15, 2011
Why Apple is right on subscriptions
Apple has built an incredibly valuable distribution platform. It’s perfectly reasonable for them to say “if you make money using our platform, we want a piece of it.” Distribution costs money. Facebook charges developers on its platform 30% for using … Continue reading
Posted in apple, ipad, journalism, newspapers, publishing
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