Chandra Janakiraman
Chandra Janakiraman is the chief product officer, executive vice president, and a board member at VRChat. Previously, he was a product leader at Meta, where he led Facebook’s social experience interfaces and Reality Labs’ growth; served as CPO at Headspace, where he helped relaunch the platform, driving a 4x subscriber boost; and was a GM at Zynga, delivering massive hit games that reached hundreds of millions.
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Strategy & Positioning Skills
A long-term product vision should transcend tactical problem-solving to define an aspirational and exciting future state that provides a sense of purpose.
"What does the product look like in five to 10 years? Why is the world better in 10 years? And what is the most exciting version of that view?"
A written strategy serves as the essential bridge between high-level purpose and tactical plans by explicitly defining the 'why' behind chosen focus areas and trade-offs.
"The first is a handful of areas to focus on and I call these strategic pillars and then a whole bunch of areas that are explicitly not the focus. And the third component is why. So why are the focus a..."