Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy 4/26/26 Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy 4/26/26

Version One is just the start.

I've spent years thinking about how products evolve and what separates the ones that last from the ones that fade. The pattern I keep coming back to: the best products don't launch complete. They launch with a sharp insight and earn the right to grow. Weirdly, this post sat in my drafts for a long time and while I was listening to the “The Infinity Machine” by Sebastian Mallaby these past few days, I realized the time had come to publish. I wrote about the iPhone, Kindle, Echo, Netflix and the one incomplete idea we're all living inside right now.

Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy 3/5/26 Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy 3/5/26

Leveraging my Second Brain to Build a Chief of Staff (and Secretary)

My experience building my second brain at work and leveraging it to build a Chief of Staff and Secretary that help me be more productive and efficient with my time.

Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy 2/4/26 Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy 2/4/26

The Age of Product Builders

The era of product builders is here. You have by now heard of the industry shift to full-stack product builders. Why does this matter and how can you retool for this era?

Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy 10/12/24 Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy 10/12/24

A New Chapter

I am excited to kickstart my advisory and mentorship on this auspicious day of Vijayadashami.

Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy 6/30/24 Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy 6/30/24

Frankly my dear, give a damn!

Why investing and doubling down on product quality is the best way to deliver customer value and increase the chances of success.

Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy 5/27/24 Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy 5/27/24

The Constraint Advantage: Using Limits to Build Great Products

Building compelling new products takes innovation, an obsession to deliver customer value and a little bit of luck. It also requires a few crisply articulated and well understood constraints to help teams anchor themselves. History is littered with examples of great innovation, a healthy obsession with customer value, lots of luck and yet few really successful products. Read on to see why constraints make a lthe difference.

5/18/21 5/18/21

Along for the ride

5/11/21 5/11/21

What does a product manager do?

There are many hats that Product Managers wear but if I were to encapsulate all of it into just one thing, it is that we manage risk. So let us talk about risk and how we manage it.

1/4/21 1/4/21

The value of prioritized product tenets

In my experience, there is much to be gained for any program of any size and complexity to have high-quality prioritized, product tenets set at any early stage of the program to drive it towards success. In this post, I share some of my learnings working on programs that had good tenets and how they were helpful.