Led a couple of Stripe's most successful products from their early days (Stripe Connect, Stripe Terminal). Helped build the Product Management function at Stripe, as one of the early members of the PM team and as Stripe's first PM Manager. Led & grew several products at Twitter, Google, Yahoo, including some products & features you probably use daily / weekly.

Now, I advise startup founders, coach executives, do occasional speaking engagements, and teach.

Oh, and I also write about product management, leadership, org psychology, and strategy. >500k people have chosen to follow my writing & my ideas across Twitter, LinkedIn, Threads, and YouTube.

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Shreyas Doshi

A founder asked me in a recent advising call: “why do you teach?”

Here’s what I shared with him:

- It helps me scale my startup advising work: unfortunately, I cannot advise all the founders who reach out. In fact, I take very few formal advising roles, because I want to be certain it’s the right mutual fit (high growth company, fit with founder, challenging problems / huge opportunity, mutual availability). So my teaching is a great option for founders I cannot advise.

- I absolutely love it: in this next chapter of my career, I’ve decided to only work on things that I absolutely love. This means saying No to high prestige, rational opportunities (e.g. VC, leadership roles, podcasting, venture backed startup, etc.) Teaching is something I knew I wanted to do since my teenage years (at the time, I wanted to teach French, as I was very good at it in 10th grade). It isn’t for everyone and it is hard, but if it is for you, why not do it?

- It might be the best way *for me* to create further positive impact on our industry: to be clear, I don’t do anything because “I want to create a dent in the universe” (I know I won’t create any dent in the universe and will be forgotten shortly after I’m gone and I think that’s a wonderful thing, not something to be sad about). So while I am not teaching mainly to create a big impact, it is wonderful to read notes from 100s of students every month on how their products, teams, and their career are better off after taking my class. The total impact is hard to measure (and I am not going to try & measure it), but my gut says that the compounding impact from my teaching might be meaningful.

- I still get to solve fun product problems: one reason my teaching resonates strongly with some students is that I treat everything like a product. My (very small) team and I do more product thinking (and immediate application of that thinking) on a daily basis than I ever remember doing at Tier 1 companies I’ve worked at as a PM (reason: we are a tiny close-knit company and we view every problem through a product lens). This means exercising empathy, simulation, creativity, design in everything we do from course design, to communications, to community design, to marketing, to our operations. Plus, through my advising work, I get to work on the biggest product / GTM problems that founders are facing across dozens of domains and products.

- It works with my life: I work all 7 days of the week (mainly on my advising & teaching). The weeks I am teaching are particularly very intense (everyone in my house and my mom in India knows that I am basically unavailable those weeks). On the flip side though, my teaching + advising give me a lot more control over my schedule than almost any other work would. This means that I’ve been able to spend a lot more time with my son (17yrs, only child) over the past 4+ years than I could have otherwise. I like that.

Thank you for reading this far and for your continued love and support 💙 🙏

ex-Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo. Startup advisor.

Heading Technology and Services organisation across India and Philippines for FIS.

EVP Technology & Services India & Philippines

TiE Bangalore

Charter Member

nasscom

Leading industry focus on growing the DeepTech and Product Ecosystems from India. Enabling growth of Deep Tech startups, Product Talent, Market Access and Policy Advocacy which will result in a 30x growth of DeepTech companies by 2030.

Chairperson nasscom Product & DeepTech StartUp Council

Elected member of the nasscom Executive Council for the last 3 terms. Serve on the Finance and Audit Committee.

Member Executive Council

VMware

Member Board of Directors of VMware Software India Private Limited and leading the largest presence for VMware globally outside of the HQ.

VP Technology & Managing Director

DERBI FOUNDATION

Dayananda Sagar Entrepreneurship Research & Business Incubator (DERBI) Foundation is a Technology Business Incubator with the objective of incubating technology ventures. DERBI Foundation is a not for profit section8 company recognized and supported by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.
http://www.derbifoundation.com/

Member Governing Council

Sukino Healthcare Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Sukino Healthcare Solutions is India’s leading provider of long-term health care management for patients with chronic ailments including, post-stroke paralysis (hemiplegia), chronic kidney disease, total knee or hip replacement surgery, poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and cancer requiring pain management, palliative or end of life care. We act as the bridge between the hospital and the home, delivering out-of-hospital care that enables the patients to either achieve a speedy recovery in the best suited environment or achieve highest quality of life during their end stages.

Board Member

Hotify Inc.

This is what we aim to achieve: A core system that would be able to learn and then deliver results by taking decisions based on its understanding. Based on the learning, the core system would be able to perform any task which a human skilled worker can do.

http://www.hotify.ai

Advisor

Sukino's vision is to provide continuum care for patients who suffer from chronic ailments. Building partnerships with top hospitals ensures that we can provide the patients with access to high quality healthcare and recovery options. Offerings include the entire gamut of services needed to enable a speedy and well planned recovery or health management schedule including specialised healthcare services, ancillary care, palliative care and transitional care.

http://www.sukino.com/

Member Advisory Board

Zinnov

We are a research, consulting & advisory company with core expertise in Product Engineering and Digital Transformation. Our insights leverage Zinnov’s proprietary Global Engineering Insights Platform and our recommendations are easily actionable.

Mahindra Electric Mobility Limited

Developing digital mobility platforms and solutions around electric transportation.

Ramkumar (Ram) Narayanan is a global leader focusing on data driven, digital product innovation spanning consumer and enterprise markets. He brings a vast experience in product development, product management and product marketing having led both new market entry and turnaround of existing business areas. He has been an advisor to Enterprises, large and small, in the arena of digital transformation, product strategy and product marketing. 

Ram is currently EVP Technology & Services at FIS India and Philippines. Prior to joining FIS, he served in global leadership positions at VMware, eBay, Yahoo! and Microsoft. He started his career in the auto industry in US developing software solutions for design and packaging of automotive suspension and powertrain systems. 

Ram formerly served on the Executive Council of NASSCOM and was Chairperson NASSCOM Product/Deep Tech Council.

Ramkumar Narayanan holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering & MBA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Specialties:
- Scaling and maturing Global Capability Centres (GCC) of Multinational companies 
- Managing digital product organizations
- Software Product Management & Product Marketing for Consumer and Enterprise products
- Product strategy
- New market development in Emerging Markets

Ramkumar Narayanan

I had an amazing week of conversations, brainstorming, learning and getting to know leaders involved in the state of #GCC industry across two major events.

The large and older GCCs are trying to move from cost to value. While each of us is working across various strategies, the core of it involves aligning the GCC to corporate priorities with strong OKRs, ensuring our teams are well prepared for the shift, building strong partnerships with the ecosystem, ensuring each of us has a keen focus on governance and last but not least forming the AI strategies and execution plans not just for the India sites but ensuring this has positive outcome for our customers and companies. 

It was indeed inspiring to meet many newer GCC leaders who bring fresh energy and experiences to the ecosystem. It was insightful to understand the challenges and opportunities in front of them. Some sound familair to those of us who have been on this journey for a while, and other new wrinkles driven by a changing world and countries where their HQs are located. 

Exciting times ahead and I believe the best is yet to come. 

FIS #GCC #Leadership #AI 
#ETGCC #ETGCC2025
#MachineConGCCSummit
#MachineConGCC2025

Executive VP, Head of FIS India & Philippines | Board Member | Member nasscom GCC Council

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