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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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- A finance guide for millionaires and billionaires
- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travel
- 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
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- A finance guide for millionaires and billionaires
- About Rakesh Agrawal
- The experience is the product
- Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travel
- How not to design an ATM
- A look at Groupon's extremely lopsided merchant agreement
- Why Netflix's split won't help with its real problems
- Favorite things, day 3: Hawaii
- My technology adoption history
- Gimme my money: remaking the ATM to get you cash faster
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A finance guide for millionaires and billionaires
This guide is primarily targeted to people who have 6 figure incomes and ay least 7 figures in assets. If you’re a billionaire: thanks for reading! Hit me up at billionaire@agrawals.org. We can grab coffee. You can certainly afford to … Continue reading
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Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travel
Having flown more than two million butt-in-seat miles over the years, I’ve developed strategies for coping with the hassles of air travel. Holiday air travel is a challenge all years. In the time of COVID, it’s even more challenging and … Continue reading
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Lobsterclass – free classes on product management
Lobsterclass is a free video class series on product management. It encompasses things I’ve learned in my team at Amazon, Microsoft, Aol and various startups. It’s a highly compressed version of what I teach my PM teams. It’s suitable for … Continue reading
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Getting down to numbers: quantitative research
Are you building the right product? It’s an important question whether you are a startup or a big company. Good research can help guide you. Doing it incorrectly and you’ll go down the wrong path. There are two basic types … Continue reading
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Pricing the COVID-19 vaccine
It’s 2020’s Holy Grail: the coronavirus vaccine. Large parts of the country and the world are shut down in a deadly pandemic. Scientists around the world are racing for a vaccine to end the suffering and re-start the economy. Let’s … Continue reading
Favorite things, day 1: podcasts
Podcasts make me smarter. It’s that simple. There is so much great information from so many smart people out there, on any topic you can think of. My favorite podcasts are from experts who know what they’re talking about. Even … Continue reading
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Rakesh’s travel secrets for your holiday travels
Having flown more than two million miles, including more than 45,000 in the past month, Over the years, I’ve developed strategies for coping with the hassles of air travel. I hope you don’t need any of them on your holiday … Continue reading
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Favorite things, day 2: credit cards
There are many reasons I love credit cards. As a payments nerd, I marvel that I can be on the far side of the world, tap a card and walk away with things I want. As a marketing nerd, I … Continue reading
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Favorite things, day 3: Hawaii
(All photos taken by me; message me for licensing.) Sun, sand, beach, surf, ancient cultures, outdoors — there’s so much to love about Hawaii. An archipelago of 8 primary islands, it offers a great break far away from most things. … Continue reading
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Favorite things, day 4: TiVo
For the days leading up to Christmas, I’m counting down a few of my favorite things. These are not in priority order. The closest thing there is to an order is least surprising to most surprising. TiVo has a special on their … Continue reading
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