Chandra Janakiraman

Product and strategy executive. Chief product officer and EVP at VRChat. Previously: VP of product at Headspace (where he built the company’s first written product strategy, transforming it from a meditation app into a broader health and wellness platform and earning his first CPO title); product leader at Meta Reality Labs (Oculus Quest II and Portal growth strategies); GM at Zynga San Diego; senior PM at Amazon. Known in the product community for his operator’s guide to product strategy — a synthesis of strategy literature (Rumelt, Roger Martin, Porter) into a repeatable 8–12-week playbook.

Episodes

• Chandra Janakiraman on An Operator's Guide to Product Strategy — Lenny’s Podcast