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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- I currently auto-delete tweets on a 14-day rolling basis. Any pluses/minuses to drop it to 7-day? 8 hours ago
- Count me out for international travel until the 3 day negative test rule is ended. It’s hard enough to find close i… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 9 hours ago
- To be fair, Google and Facebook have so destroyed the value of ads to publishers that they have to write more frequ… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 12 hours ago
- Downside of Psaki as @PressSec: I might want to spend an hour each day watching her presser. 12 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
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Category Archives: strategy
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
5 things Andrew Yang must do for the next debate
As a lifetime product guy, I pay attention to substance, style and marketing. Yang has the first one nailed. He’s talking about two issues that will make or break the country and the world in the next decade: income inequality … Continue reading
Posted in politics, strategy, Uncategorized
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Use your client’s product (and your own)
I was having dinner with a friend who works at a large payments company last night. One of the things that we discussed was the importance of using your client’s (or prospective client’s) products. If you’re visiting American Express, use … Continue reading
Short-term, transactional thinking in a social media world
I woke up this morning to find a bill under my door for a $7.60 bottle of water, courtesy of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Apparently the bottle of water next to the bathroom sink wasn’t free. There wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in strategy, travel
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The experience is the product
Apple retail stores celebrated their 10th anniversary last week. The stores have defied all analyst expectations and have become the highest grossing retailers in the world. The company’s market cap exceeds all of the other players in tech. Its $5,000 … Continue reading
Posted in apple, facebook, marketing, product management, strategy
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Winning through simplification
Temporary housing site Airbnb is raising a $100 million round at a valuation exceeding $1 billion, according to TechCrunch. Airbnb is a great example of creating new markets through simplification. People have been selling rooms and temporary space through sites … Continue reading