Anshumani Ruddra's guest appearances

Anshumani Ruddra

Use Case

Prime Venture Partners Podcast

The Kalaari Podcast

Meeta Malhotra

Nir Eyal

Nischal Shetty

Chris Saad

Karthik Reddy

Payal Arora

Rui Ma

Ananth Narayanan

Nikhil Pahwa

Akshay Kothari

Sourabh Gupta

Abhinav Asthana

Sairee Chahal

Deepak Abbot

Nikhil Kumar

OwlTail

What goes into building a successful product?With years of experience under his belt, Anshumani Ruddra, Group Product Manager at Google Pay shares his insights on building great products and more on our #BehindTheScenes podcast.Here are some of the points he touches upon: 1. What makes great product managers2. Building product decision-making frameworks that are more data-enabled vs intuition-led3. The future of the Indian gaming industry#India #Entrepreneurship #Startups #ProductManagementWhen it comes to #startups, there is no fast track to #success. Almost all startup teams go through a variety of crises and challenges Behind The Scenes. Having been a part of many startup journeys over the last decade at Kalaari, we believe that there are valuable lessons to be gained from the journeys of others. These episodes from Kalaari come from our continued commitment to empower and encourage #entrepreneurship.If you have any suggestions, please reach out to us at podcasts@kalaari.com. We would love to hear from you.For more podcasts, visit our website- https://www.kalaari.com/podcast 

What goes into building a successful product?With years of experience under his belt, Anshumani Ruddra, Group Product Manager at Google Pay shares his insights on building great products and more on our #BehindTheScenes podcast.Here are some of the points he touches upon: 1. What makes great product managers2. Building product decision-making frameworks that are more data-enabled vs intuition-led3. The future of the Indian gaming industry#India #Entrepreneurship #Startups #ProductManagementWhen it comes to #startups, there is no fast track to #success. Almost all startup teams go through a variety of crises and challenges Behind The Scenes. Having been a part of many startup journeys over the last decade at Kalaari, we believe that there are valuable lessons to be gained from the journeys of others. These episodes from Kalaari come from our continued commitment to empower and encourage #entrepreneurship.If you have any suggestions, please reach out to us at <a href="mailto:podcasts@kalaari.com">podcasts@kalaari.com</a>. We would love to hear from you.For more podcasts, visit our website- <a href="https://www.kalaari.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.kalaari.com/podcast</a>

Anshumani Ruddra, Google India, on building successful products | Behind The Scenes

A writer, a game designer and a product manager walked into a bar. Twist - all of the three is the same person! Say hello to Anshumani Ruddra, who is presently the VP of Products at Hotstar. He’s worn the hat of a writer, a game designer and a PM, which gives him the unique ability of looking at products in a way that most of us skip.Come to think of it, just as a well written article takes you through a journey while gradually stacking layers of information, a good game design or a good user journey does exactly that. You begin by subtly grabbing the user’s attention, adding a new piece of information without overwhelming the reader/user and then continue doing so until you reach a call to action (CTA). In our case, the CTA is us requesting you to check out this awesome podcast with Anshumani. Timestamps:* 0:25- Managing work from home in Covid-19 lockdown 😷* 2:30- Anshumani’s journey and his tryst as a writer and some writing tips* 7:10- The concept of instant gratification and it’s relevance to products, life and work* 11:08- ‘Products and games’ : gaming and how firms are ‘gamifying’ their products* 21:40- External rewards vs internal rewards* 24:00- Can gifting as a source of monetisation for live streaming work in India?* 31:30- How Hotstar built a community feature on their app &amp; concept of exit cost* 42:00- Angel investing and fundraising after covid-19 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit turnaround.substack.com

A writer, a game designer and a product manager walked into a bar. Twist - all of the three is the same person! Say hello to <a href="https://twitter.com/baboonzero" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anshumani Ruddra</a>, who is presently the VP of Products at Hotstar. He’s worn the hat of a writer, a game designer and a PM, which gives him the unique ability of looking at products in a way that most of us skip.Come to think of it, just as a well written article takes you through a journey while gradually stacking layers of information, a good game design or a good user journey does exactly that. You begin by subtly grabbing the user’s attention, adding a new piece of information without overwhelming the reader/user and then continue doing so until you reach a call to action (CTA). In our case, the CTA is us requesting you to check out this awesome podcast with Anshumani. Timestamps:* 0:25- Managing work from home in Covid-19 lockdown 😷* 2:30- Anshumani’s journey and his tryst as a writer and some writing tips* 7:10- The concept of instant gratification and it’s relevance to products, life and work* 11:08- ‘Products and games’ : gaming and how firms are ‘gamifying’ their products* 21:40- External rewards vs internal rewards* 24:00- Can gifting as a source of monetisation for live streaming work in India?* 31:30- How Hotstar built a community feature on their app &amp; concept of exit cost* 42:00- Angel investing and fundraising after covid-19 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://turnaround.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">turnaround.substack.com</a>

Writing, gaming & product designing with Anshumani Ruddra, VP of Products at Hotstar

I was on a long flight and on this flight there was a gentleman in the aisle seat across from me sleeping - very clearly knocked out. A flight attendant was coming through the aisle, she stops at our row and she turns to him and says "Sir?"He’s clearly asleep, so she calls out louder “Sir!”He's got his blanket up to his chin and he's got a big pillow - he's definitely passed out. And so she says it a third time. She says, "Sir!" He wakes up and says, "What is it? What is it?"And she says, "Sir, what would you like to drink?"Don’t the app notifications we keep getting on our phones all day feel the same?  These are all external triggers that product managers love to use!Nir Eyal, author of the best selling book ‘Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products’ uses this example while explaining how time and again we make the mistake of focussing on external triggers to grab the customer’s/user’s attention. Instead, what we should be doing is asking ourselves - what are the “internal triggers” that would inspire someone to use my product? What deeper emotional need can I solve for that would inspire the user to come back and use my product again? In this episode of the Use Case podcast, Anshumani Ruddra, Vice President at Hotstar chats with author Nir Eyal as part of an invite only event organised by Axilor Ventures, one of India’s leading seed stage funds and accelerator program. Check out their Summer 2020 accelerator program, the applications for which are now open!You could listen in to the podcast above or on any of your favourite podcast apps.* Apple/Google Podcast apps: https://t.co/g5VB6CByD9?amp=1* Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2n4elRe For more such content, subscribe to the Turnaround NewsletterTimestamp:* 00:00- Setting for the conversation* 04:00- The shrinking real estate for user attention * 10:30- Case in point: “Why your fitness app is making you fat?”* 13:00- Building a defensible competitive advantage and the line of differentiation for consumer and enterprise products* 17:45- Can you get customers to buy pressure cookers again and again? How to get users to come back? * 21:30- Discussing the Hooked model in detail 🔥🔥🔥* 29:30- What can you do if you are not building from 0 to 1, but 1 to 1.5? increasing velocity and speed of use in the action phase* 38:00- Bing vs Google* 39:00- How can you keep distractions away and enjoy life?* 44:30- Difference between overuse and addiction* 51:00- Can we use technology to limit technological distraction? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit turnaround.substack.com

I was on a long flight and on this flight there was a gentleman in the aisle seat across from me sleeping - very clearly knocked out. A flight attendant was coming through the aisle, she stops at our row and she turns to him and says "Sir?"He’s clearly asleep, so she calls out louder “Sir!”He's got his blanket up to his chin and he's got a big pillow - he's definitely passed out. And so she says it a third time. She says, "Sir!" He wakes up and says, "What is it? What is it?"And she says, "Sir, what would you like to drink?"Don’t the app notifications we keep getting on our phones all day feel the same? These are all external triggers that product managers love to use!Nir Eyal, author of the best selling book ‘Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products’ uses this example while explaining how time and again we make the mistake of focussing on external triggers to grab the customer’s/user’s attention. Instead, what we should be doing is asking ourselves - what are the “internal triggers” that would inspire someone to use my product? What deeper emotional need can I solve for that would inspire the user to come back and use my product again? In this episode of the Use Case podcast, Anshumani Ruddra, Vice President at Hotstar chats with author Nir Eyal as part of an invite only event organised by Axilor Ventures, one of India’s leading seed stage funds and accelerator program. Check out their <a href="https://axilor.typeform.com/to/ywaZ8W" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Summer 2020 accelerator program</a>, the applications for which are now open!You could listen in to the podcast above or on any of your favourite podcast apps.* Apple/Google Podcast apps: <a href="https://t.co/g5VB6CByD9?amp=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://t.co/g5VB6CByD9?amp=1</a>* Spotify: <a href="http://spoti.fi/2n4elRe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://spoti.fi/2n4elRe</a> For more such content, subscribe to the Turnaround NewsletterTimestamp:* 00:00- Setting for the conversation* 04:00- The shrinking real estate for user attention * 10:30- Case in point: “Why your fitness app is making you fat?”* 13:00- Building a defensible competitive advantage and the line of differentiation for consumer and enterprise products* 17:45- Can you get customers to buy pressure cookers again and again? How to get users to come back? * 21:30- Discussing the Hooked model in detail 🔥🔥🔥* 29:30- What can you do if you are not building from 0 to 1, but 1 to 1.5? increasing velocity and speed of use in the action phase* 38:00- Bing vs Google* 39:00- How can you keep distractions away and enjoy life?* 44:30- Difference between overuse and addiction* 51:00- Can we use technology to limit technological distraction? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://turnaround.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=CTA_1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">turnaround.substack.com</a>

Nir Eyal, author of Hooked on habit forming products with Anshumani Ruddra, VP-Product at Hotstar