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Rajsi Rana
Senior PM at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, formerly @Amazon
Rajsi Rana is not currently a Senior Product Manager at Oracle. She was previously a Principal Manager of Technical Program Management at Oracle from November 2019 to May 2021.2 Before that, she worked as a Technical Program Manager at Amazon from May 2017 to November 2019.2
Currently, Rajsi Rana serves as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Skyflow, a position she was promoted to in October 2024. Prior to this role, she was the Chief of Staff to the Co-Founder & CEO at Skyflow, overseeing areas such as HR, finance, and business operations.12
Rajsi Rana holds degrees in Computer Science with a focus on Business from Trinity College, Dublin, and in Finance from the University of Cambridge.12 Her LinkedIn username is indeed "rajsirana".2
Highlights
Today, we invited Bipul Sinha- co-founder and CEO of Rubrik to our all-hands. They recently filed their S-1 to go public, and at $784M in ARR, they are the most exciting new SaaS IPO.
The journey of building a company is hard, by definition, you’re creating something from nothing and Bipul, in conversation with Anshu had some fantastic advice on everything from how to manage how you feel through the ups and downs, to the power of compounding-
On managing expectations as you build a category-creating company- Building a company is just hard. And it’s ok to accept that you should almost always be dissatisfied, but benchmark yourself once in a while to see where you stand. The feeling of dissatisfaction is important if you’re doing something important. The feeling of happiness and winning when you benchmark yourself should be temporary, and then you go back to it. Creating a new company in a new category is like fighting a war- it will take your all.
Venture Capital is the riskiest money in the American economy- if an institution has $100, they are only spending $5 on venture capital, and for good reason. It’s risky, and the only upside to it is growth. At Rubrik, if they raised $10M, they would carve out a portion of that and spend it on the riskiest thing with the most upside. Money is to be reckless with, to generate growth.
On the power of repeatability- We get bored of our own shit very fast. The marketing message that clicks gets replaced in 6 months, because we don’t find it interesting enough anymore. The truth is, for that message to reach even just your existing customer base, will take years at minimum. If you find a great thing, stick with it because it compounds.
The last double is the biggest double- Humans are so used to linearity with how we think and act, compounding isn’t intuitive. The first few doubles don’t feel as exciting, but the last double can mean adding 1B in ARR.
