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Rishikesh Yardi reposted thisWe're continuing to expand the Instacart Ads ecosystem. Now, brands can seamlessly reach more consumers across Instacart and Uber Eats with a single campaign.Rishikesh Yardi reposted thisIn case you missed it: CPG brands can now activate Sponsored Items and Shoppable Display campaigns on Uber Eats in the US—directly through Instacart’s Carrot Ads. That means more scale, more impact, and no extra lift. 🛒 Reach millions of Uber Eats shoppers at key decision points—search, browse, storefront 📈 Run performance-driven campaigns across Instacart and Uber Eats 🧰 Manage it all in Instacart Ads Manager—no new tools required 🚀 Tap into high-intent moments with native SKU ads and full-funnel formats “This partnership helps us meet more advertisers where they are—and gives them the tools to win the digital shelf,”— Travis Colvin, GM of Grocery & Retail, Uber Advertising The future of digital grocery just got a whole lot more connected. Read more on PYMNTS: https://lnkd.in/eQBFJD8b #UberAdvertising #RetailMedia #CPGMarketing #CarrotAds #SponsoredItems #ShoppableDisplay #DigitalAdvertising #UberEatsAds #AdTech #GrowWithUber
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Rishikesh Yardi shared thisIt was the height of the pandemic when I joined the Instacart team when grocery delivery became a lifeline for households everywhere. Our journey in shaping, developing, and expanding Instacart's advertising platform has been nothing short of an exhilarating adventure, filled with challenges that tested our mettle. From riding the waves of surging demand during the pandemic to instilling enduring customer habits, proving the magic of our advertising solutions, and even battling the inflation dragon – we've done it all. We've made online grocery delivery a reality for countless households and developed the playbook to make it profitable - I'm incredibly proud of the impactful work this team has accomplished in building out our suite of Ads products! We took another big step and transitioned to becoming a public company yesterday (NASDAQ: CART)
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Rishikesh Yardi shared thisRishikesh Yardi shared thisCheck out what Instacart is cooking in collaboration with OpenAI 🥕Introducing the Instacart Plugin for ChatGPT | InstacartIntroducing the Instacart Plugin for ChatGPT | Instacart
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Rishikesh Yardi shared thisLooking for the next PM leader & speaker for a Products That Count Webinar, a community of over 300,000 PMs worldwide. Product Leaders, sign up for the waitlist here: https://lnkd.in/gpCNuKbu Picture of the last webinar with Casey Winters sharing insights about navigating product complexity and onboarding new users effectively. You can find the full video at https://lnkd.in/gpc_D9Fe. To my network, please comment with suggestions and recommendations on who you'd like me to invite and host next.
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Rishikesh Yardi shared thisRishikesh Yardi shared thisExcited about economics and machine learning? Equally curious about estimating embeddings and price elasticities at scale? I may just have the perfect position for you! Instacart‘s Economics team is hiring: https://lnkd.in/gJK6c_VY
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Rishikesh Yardi shared thisRishikesh Yardi shared thisExcited to share this open role on the Instacart Ads PM team! We're #hiring for a Senior PM on Ads Quality, reporting to the awesome Vadim Tsemekhman. I know there are many talented PMs with ads background who are looking for the next great thing right now and we'd love to find you a happy home at Instacart. Please take a look and apply if you're interested! https://lnkd.in/g4UJvgK4
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Rishikesh Yardi shared thisMy heart goes out to all my former colleagues at Meta - these are incredibly tough and challenging times for everyone in the tech industry. Sharing a few resources that might help anyone impacted: 1. Satish Mummareddy and Shreyas Doshi put together a list here for product, design, and engineering Jobs: https://lnkd.in/gPWDKx3Q 2. Lenny Rachitsky has a talent collective here: https://lnkd.in/g2dx_MNt 3. Will Lawrence's talent collective: https://lnkd.in/gpPvqqRH My DM's are open to help in any way (review resumes, mock interviews, connections, or just have a chat during these difficult times)
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Rishikesh Yardi liked thisRishikesh Yardi liked thisThinkHive is joining Rootly! We started ThinkHive with one conviction. Enterprises will not put AI agents into production until they can ensure reliability when those agents fail. Not in a demo. Not in a sandbox. At scale, with real customers on the other end. Reliability is the unlock for AI adoption. That is the problem we set out to solve, and it is the reason we built what we built. When I first sat down with the Rootly team, it was obvious we had been chasing the same mission from two different directions. Rootly built the incident management platform teams live in when things break: detection, response, on-call, retrospectives, the full lifecycle. Trusted by teams at NVIDIA, DoorDash, Canva, Replit and many more, the kind of companies where seconds of downtime carry real cost and real consequences. Incident management is where reliability is actually won or lost. It is also where an AI SRE has to prove itself, because there is no room to be confidently wrong when the pager is going off. I'm joining JJ Tang and the Rootly team as Head of AI Products.. The mandate is simple: build an AI across the incident lifecycle that on-call engineers actually trust at 3am, one that investigates, correlates, and resolves rather than just summarizing. To our customers, our investors, and the ThinkHive team who made this possible: thank you. This is not the end of the story. It is a much bigger version of it. More to come soon!
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Rishikesh Yardi liked thisRishikesh Yardi liked thisSharing an extremely exciting announcement from our Private Equity business in the Middle East! We are very proud that Brookfield Middle East Partners (BMEP) has achieved a first close of US$2 billion! BMEP represents a significant step in the continued growth of our private equity portfolio in the region. Anchored by Public Investment Fund (PIF) and other global and regional institutional partners, the fund reached its first close with approximately $2 billion to invest across the Middle East. Across Brookfield’s private equity business, we focus on high-quality companies in essential sectors that support the economy, where our operating capabilities can help drive scale, efficiency and long-term value creation. We look forward to bringing our operations-first approach to private equity to the region and supporting the next phase of growth. https://lnkd.in/dPEbDQj6Brookfield Raises $2 Billion for Middle East Fund Backed by PIFBrookfield Raises $2 Billion for Middle East Fund Backed by PIF
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Rishikesh Yardi reacted on thisThanks At The Moment Media (ATM) for the chance to share more of my personality than just retail media! I always appreciate a chance to talk about music, my circuitous path toward advertising and tech, and my love of the UK's Taskmaster (the best show around). But of course, we also talk retail media -- including the convergence of media and commerce, the opportunity we have to learn and adapt to new consumer behavior with AI, and how we aim to make it easier to navigate all of these things with the Instacart Ads ecosystem 🥕 Full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gjPtHuanRishikesh Yardi reacted on thisRetail media has a fragmentation problem. Hundreds of networks, different measurement, different attribution. Ali Miller, General Manager of Advertising at Instacart, is building the fix. One platform. 2,200 retailers. 310 partners. Watch the full conversation through the link below.
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Rishikesh Yardi liked thisRishikesh Yardi liked thisExcited to share the launch of the GoDaddy Developer Platform! As AI agents become an integral part of software development, developers need secure, programmable ways to build and automate experiences. Our first release includes modern Domain APIs and a CLI that enable developers—and their AI agents—to search, quote, register, and manage domains with security and customer trust built in. I’m incredibly proud of what our team has built and excited about the foundation this creates for the future of AI-powered development. A huge thank you to everyone across Engineering, Product, Design, Security, Developer Experience, Legal, and Operations who helped bring this vision to life. If you're building with our APIs, I'd love for you to give them a try and share your feedback. Your input will help us continue improving the platform and shaping what's next. Explore the GoDaddy Developer Platform: https://lnkd.in/gPnAyMUQ Read more about the vision and design principles in my latest blog: https://lnkd.in/gvdPMhDU #DeveloperPlatform #APIs #AI #AgenticAI #DeveloperExperience #GoDaddyIntroducing the GoDaddy Developer Platform: Domain APIs for Developers and Their AgentsIntroducing the GoDaddy Developer Platform: Domain APIs for Developers and Their Agents
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Rishikesh Yardi liked thisRishikesh Yardi liked this🤯 Amazing Sparky Moment! Took a photo of a lawn in distress. Sparky figured out what to do and found the right product. Sometimes a picture is worth 1,000 words!
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Rishikesh Yardi liked thisRishikesh Yardi liked thisAs of this week, I'm a Senior Maintainer of Envoy Proxy! 🎉 Envoy sits at the core of cloud infrastructure everywhere, from service mesh to edge to API gateways. Helping steward it is a privilege. This took years of reviews, design debates, and late-night debugging. None of it solo. Thank you Boteng Y. for proposing me, Yan Avlasov for landing it, and Baiping Wang for providing the mentorship and partnership across countless PRs. And to the wider maintainer team including Takeshi Yoneda who reviewed my code and sharpened my thinking. Now back to building! More Dynamic Modules. More Rust 🦀 Contributions: https://lnkd.in/gpETjFGG #Envoy #CloudNative #OpenSource #Rust
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Rishikesh Yardi liked thisRishikesh Yardi liked thisJust back from my first Cannes Lions. This is the era of autonomous marketing agents. The signal was impossible to miss. Autonomous marketing agents were top of mind for almost everyone I met. Three things stuck with me: 1. CTV is having a moment. A genuinely incremental channel with a high conversion rate. The appetite to show up on the big screen is real, and there is a lot of room to grow. 2. The human still matters. For all the talk of full automation, I saw very few AI systems running with no human in the loop. The winners blend the agent with the human. That is exactly why high touch is doing so well. 3. Every marketer will have an agent. And it is not a distant future. Real excitement about Notch and the proprietary tech behind our video agent. Across the board, platforms are either building agentic systems within their own products or letting people build agents in the cloud, then racing to figure out how it all talks to one another. A lot of exciting updates are coming up soon. The M&A tells the same story. Bestever to Samba TV. Vibe to Walmart. Topaz to Adobe. All in the same week. The incumbents are moving fast, and they are moving with the new age companies.
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Seattle Head
Products That Count
- 2 years 6 months
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Products That Count is a community of 300K+ product managers coming together to network, learn and get inspired by the thought leaders in the product development space.
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Association of National Advertisers
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The ANA is the U.S. advertising industry's oldest and largest trade association. Originally known as the Association of National Advertising Managers, it was established to promote cooperative relationships between regional and national advertising industries, manufacturers and dealers, and advertisers and agencies.
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Mindful Prana
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Mindful Prana is an innovative application with which we hope to enter a niche market which works at the convergence of Internet of Things and Mobile Technologies and leverage the increasing awareness surrounding mindfulness and meditation as a way to control your state of mind
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Strodle.com
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A website that enabled users to easily create, display and share portfolios. It was targeted primarily at small business owners and freelance professionals interested in promoting their products and talents online, such as food caterers, independent fashion designers and photographers, to name a few.
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2018 Expedia Group Horizon Award
Expedia Group
The horizon award is given to top 1% of Expedia Group employees to have shown to excel at core competencies and demonstrate excellent product vision, strategy and execution
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Best Project at Carnegie Mellon University Project Competition - "Mindful Prana"
Carnegie Mellon University
We were awarded the best project award and a cash prize on competing with 30+ groups
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Academic Scholarship
Carnegie Mellon University
Received scholarship from Information Networking Institute of Carnegie Mellon University for my graduate program in Information Technology.
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Honors Program - Embedded Systems
University of Pune
Took 20 additional credits (5 Theory Courses & Experiential Learning - Technical Seminar) in Embedded System Design in the Department of Electrical Engineering.
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CMU Product Management Club
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Manu Nair
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Maheshwar Venkat
4 days of Shreyas Doshi's Product Sense course cost almost double of my 4 years of engineering. Was it worth it? 1. It gave me the much needed realisation that the the ceiling is very very high on many skills in Product Management. Before the course - I was probably getting too comfortable as I got closer to the local maxima on a bunch of product skills. 2. The content itself is was designed to build conviction & kickstart your learning on a handful of pointed skills - with enough resources to keep going back to, as you work on honing them long term. Building conviction to go deeper is hard and I'm grateful for that. 3. Beyond the content, the course is beautifully structured to take you on a journey to discover, understand and validate these concepts very naturally. No jargon, no theoretical frameworks, and nothing held back in calling a spade a spade wherever needed. Would I recommend it? For Sr. PM and above - If you are willing to put in the effort to grow in your craft, by practising the material everyday, you will unlock tremendous value from the course.
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Deepesh Gupta
Really excited to see India leading innovation to enable agentic commerce. Razorpay + NPCI launched agentic payments on ChatGPT, and now on Claude too. You'll soon be able to tell Claude "repeat my last week's grocery order from Swiggy" and it just happens. The rails making it possible: UPI Reserve Pay lets an AI block and debit funds on your behalf. UPI Circle lets you delegate payments to an agent, no OTP required. In India, where payment trust is hard-earned and deeply personal, this is a catalyst for agentic commerce. #Fintech #Payments #AgenticCommerce #AIPayments #UPI #Razorpay
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