Anneka Gupta
Anneka Gupta is the Chief Product Officer at Rubrik, a leading B2B cybersecurity company. She previously spent 11 years at LiveRamp, where she was the President and Head of Product and Platforms leading product development and go-to-market operations and strategy. Anneka also sits on the board of directors for Tinuiti and teaches product management at Stanford University.
Career (separate track) Skills
Mastering business details allows product leaders to identify precisely where targeted course corrections are needed without micromanaging every decision.
"What I've found is that understanding the details of the business and asking questions and understanding to the utmost extent you can, what's working, what's not, what are the financial goals of the b..."
Reframing daunting challenges as opportunities for fun or learning shifts your perspective from a scarcity mindset to one of abundance and opportunity.
"My one mindset that I really have leaned into after someone actually gave me advice on this is to figure out how to have fun in my job, even in the most difficult of times. The reason why I say that i..."
Strategy & Positioning Skills
Strategic leadership requires the ability to distill complex directions into a simple 'why' while having the courage to champion difficult, long-term changes.
"When people say, 'I want someone that's strategic,' what they're really saying is, 'I want someone that can come up with and articulate a compelling and simple why behind the decisions and the directi..."