“today my guest is Chandra janc Raman Chandra is Chief product officer and Executive Vice President at VR chat”
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Chandra Janakiraman
Chief product officer and Executive Vice President at VR chat; formerly a product leader at meta, CPO at headspace, GM at Zinga, and PM at Amazon.
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Innovation5 steps
Future-Backward Aspirational Strategy (Big-s)
Design-led, ~6-month process that imagines distinct 5–10 year futures and prototypes them as concept cars.
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Communication3 steps
Newspaper Headline Winning Aspiration
Have the team write the future headline about your product, then blend the headlines into one aspiration.
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Strategy5 steps
Present-Forward Product Strategy Playbook (Small-s)
A repeatable five-phase, 8–12 week process to turn scattered inputs into three focused strategic pillars.
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Strategy5 steps
Problem-to-Pillar Down-Select
Cluster raw problems, flip them into opportunities, then rank on four criteria to pick exactly three pillars.
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Leadership3 steps
The Fruit Story: Leadership Pre-Alignment Interviews
Interview your leaders and surface their pet ideas before building strategy, so reviews don't become fruit rejection.
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Resources in their episodes
- Airtable ProductCentral
- Amazon
- Bluesky
- Capybara Go!
- Creativity, Inc.
- Dune: Part Two
- Eppo
- Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
- Headspace
- IF
- Lenny's Podcast
- Make Time
- Meta
- Meta Portal
- OneSchema
- OneSchema FileFeeds
- Playing to Win
- Tesla Full Self-Driving
- The Art of War
- The Ten Faces of Innovation
- VRChat
- Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
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