Richa Prasad

Founder @ Coach Viva
United States of America 5.0 (1 review) Active 5 months ago
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In my previous life, I was a PM at Microsoft having worked on Visual Studio for 4 years and Cortana for 4 years. If you're a tech person looking for help in figuring out promotions and/or dealing with your manager/PM/dev/design team, I believe I have good insights for you.

How? I was promoted 4 times 4 years in a row and it wasn't because I worked 100 hour weeks. There is a set of unsaid criteria you need to meet that exists within any big tech company because of the way they are structured, and having leaned into it the first 4 years, then leaned away from it in the last 4 years (I was promoted once when I leaned away), I have some good insights into what to do to position you well.

I left Microsoft about 2 years ago and have been running my bootstrapped AI health company. If you're someone who is looking into transitioning from a big tech PM to startup PM or want to start your own bootstrapped company or are vacillating between bootstrapping and funding, and come from a tech background, boy do I have learnings to share with you! There are some massive psychology shifts and who-to-listen-to changes I had to make, which I believe would cut your heartache in half.


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Lucy

Lucy

5 out of 5 stars

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Richa was great! She asked very deep questions in order to get to the root of my concerns instead of just addressing surface-level questions. She has a knack for helping you figure out the questions you're actually trying to ask vs. what you _think_ is the problem and helping point out your blind spots and see the fuller picture of what you're trying to do. She also worked with me to come up with action steps so that I can actually put my learnings into practice and have data to guide me on what to do next. Highly recommended.


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