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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- Did you guys know I have a tower? And I’m not (usually) a clueless asshole like the guy in office. https://t.co/G5pTAT7IBb 1 hour ago
- My eyes, my eyes. Why I can’t recommend coming to India. Delhi is usually much worse. One time I saw it at 999. I’m… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 hour ago
- With NFC, Americans can avoid the international shaming for using signatures in transactions. twitter.com/octal/status/1… 1 hour ago
- Talking to an expat friend In a developing country about self driving cars. “We’d have to get lane markings first.”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 hours ago
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Recent Posts
- Favorite hotels from around the world
- Let’s not call Goldman Sachs evil (yet, and for this potential infraction)
- 5 things Andrew Yang must do for the next debate
- My personal environmental footprint
- FAANG + Microsoft market matrix
- Thoughts on this week’s suicides and how you can help
- Autonomous vehicles are going to affect a lot of jobs
- How technology chips away at jobs
- How to turn on the innovation light bulb
- Autonomous vehicles are going to change the world in more ways than you know
Top Posts
- Favorite hotels from around the world
- LivingSocial merchant agreement
- A look at Groupon's extremely lopsided merchant agreement
- Let's not call Goldman Sachs evil (yet, and for this potential infraction)
- Because manholes are round
- The experience is the product
- A sample Groupon merchant agreement
- Revised Groupon merchant agreement
- Groupon, LivingSocial and daily deals - merchant FAQ
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Let’s not call Goldman Sachs evil (yet, and for this potential infraction)
Goldman Sachs is the company everyone loves to hate. I’m among them. They perpetuated the financial crisis by creating financial instruments no one understood; they bet against their own customers; they benefited enormously from a government bailout; they will continue … Continue reading
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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
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My personal environmental footprint
It’s a trend in corporations (at least those outside the extraction industries) to do a self analysis on your environmental effects. I wanted to think deeply about mine. I recently mailed a mercury thermometer to a friend where she has … Continue reading
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FAANG + Microsoft market matrix
Here’s my quick take on the current state of the technology market and assessments of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Netflix. What did I miss? What do you disagree on?
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Thoughts on this week’s suicides and how you can help
Suicide and mental health get the public’s attention when you have notable deaths like those this week. But there are thousands that go unnoticed every week. One of the dirty little secrets of Silicon Valley is the high percentage of … Continue reading
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How to turn on the innovation light bulb
Expect 80-90% of innovation to fail This is the goal that VCs target. Building new things is inherently risky. Expecting every idea to succeed is a recipe for failure. The key is to fail fast. You need a team that … Continue reading
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