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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- Focus is on miles here, but you can apply this to most industries. Short term vs. long term thinking, loyalty vs. t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 hour ago
- People in tech vastly underestimate the importance of luck in their successes and failures. twitter.com/josephflaherty… 3 hours ago
- RT @pkedrosky: It's good to be the casino: FT: Goldman Sachs will make $80mn from advising Twitter and JPMorgan will make $53mn, accordin… 3 hours ago
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- And more likely than not, you screw your employees. twitter.com/bgurley/status… 1 day ago
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- Pricing the COVID-19 vaccine
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- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travels
- Favorite things, day 2: credit cards
- Favorite things, day 3: Hawaii
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
PayPal to try to compete with Groupon, but will it matter?
PayPal is preparing to launch a Groupon competitor in the first quarter of 2012, according to Bloomberg. The eBay subsidiary hopes to tap into its base of 103 million accountholders. From what I’ve seen so far, this doesn’t seem like … Continue reading
Posted in daily deals, groupon
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Scanning bar codes seems to be a popular holiday pastime
IDC’s 2011 shopper survey shows shockingly high usage of smart phone scanning tools to scan bar codes and QR codes. Nearly 1/3 of those surveyed said they had scanned a bar code. A common use of this technology is to … Continue reading
Posted in local search, mobile, mobile search
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Coping with a life-changing disease
TL;DR: I expect that I’ll be fine. I debated whether to post this, but decided that there was an off-chance that someone might find this information valuable. I was diagnosed with diabetes in September. For someone who has never been … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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LivingSocial testing new subscription service
LivingSocial is testing a new subscription service called LivingSocial Plus. For $20 a month, subscribers will receive $25 in Deal Bucks good on LivingSocial purchases. $5 is good only in that month, the remaining $20 can be carried over for … Continue reading
Posted in daily deals, groupon, livingsocial
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