Hi, I'm Ravi.

I build consumer tech products, teams, and companies that have impacted millions of people's lives. I've helped companies, from seed stage to globally recognized brands, accelerate their product work.

I was Chief Product Officer @ Tinder and EIR @ Reforge, previously @ Facebook, TripAdvisor, and Xbox.

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Leadership

An alternative to OKRs: How to set and achieve ambitious goals

Strategy & roadmapping is hard, but the most common failure mode for teams is execution. Teams often know where they want to go in the long-term, but struggle to get there. In this post, we discuss why goal setting is so hard and how to more consistently set and achieve ambitious goals.

Strategy

Strategic Thinking for Product Managers

The best strategic thinkers understand the future outcomes that they're working towards and make decisions that have the highest likelihood of achieving those outcomes. They predict the future, then make it so.

Strategy

The Anatomy of a Pivot

This is the story of how my company shifted our strategy. In hindsight, these strategic choices make neat little business cases. In the moment, they are messy, non-obvious, and require a dizzying mix of skepticism and exuberance.

Product

Product Discovery Lessons: Going from Zero to One

There isn't a lot written about the very earliest days of a startup. My guess is that those memories fade fast, a bit like the months after having a first baby. So, I want to share what we’ve learned—before my memories fade.

Product

The Product Strategy Stack

In this new Reforge essay, Zainab Ghadiyali (ex-Airbnb and Facebook) and I describe "The Product Strategy Stack", a tool you can use to define clear strategy and assess your progress.

Strategy

The Entertainment Value Curve

Successful mobile video apps aren’t just viewing experiences, they are social experiences. Hollywood had mastered a classic formula for content creation, but now that formula has changed.

Product

The Three Pillars of Product Decision Making

Making great products is the outcome of making great decisions. As product builders, we base decisions on three pillars: intuition, analytics, and customer feedback.

Product

Product Management Is Empathy

How do we build the products and the future we all deserve? Empathy is the key.

Leadership

How To Build Antifragile Companies

This is a pivotal time for executives and entrepreneurs. As we start to relax social distancing, each and every company will face a reckoning — quickly, we'll be able to separate the resilient from the walking dead.

Product

An Insider’s Guide to the Facebook Product Interview

This guide contains everything candidates need to know to ace the Facebook product interview and hiring managers need to know to understand Facebook's process for identifying exceptional product managers.

Product

Hiring from Home: How to Hire Exceptional Product Managers Remotely

Many companies need to grow their product teams to navigate the post-pandemic environment — and, for the first time, they need to hire PMs and product leaders entirely remotely. Here's everything you need to know to grow your product team to meet the challenge.

Product

What’s Your Shape? A Product Manager’s Guide to Growing Yourself and Your Team

There is a lot for PMs to master. Most PMs excel at a handful of skills. The best PMs leverage their strengths and unite teams that fill their gaps. Knowing your shape is the first step.

Product

How To Become a Peak Product Manager

Introducing the Product Competency Toolkit, a system of 12 product manager skills you can use to level up your team and yourself.

Managing Teams

Unlock Your Team's Potential with a Single Question

Introducing IMP analysis, a simple tool to help you uncover the hidden problems holding you and your team back.