Ravi Mishra

Since the dawn of the internet, product teams have had to worry about two things: 1) building their product and 2) deploying it to the internet and keeping it there. We're using fleets of hosting agents and dynamically and custom constructed cloud infrastructure to take that second item off the tables (and minds) of any product team building any product on the internet. We're calling it the Autonomous Cloud. YCombinator Fall 2026 batch.

Product consulting and coaching/teaching. Typical engagements take the form of interim (6-9 months) Head of Product roles at early stage startups (5-50 employees) to set product direction, establish customer-first product culture, and hit relevant milestones to unlock the startup’s next fundraising goals. These engagements are described in detail below. I also serve as a Lead Instructor for Product Management courses at Product School.

I wrote a book! It's called "Vow of Alivness: Saying Yes to the Mess and Magic of a True Life", and it's about my almost two decade journey training in Zen Buddhism. Get it on Amazon today! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1966956002/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1

Starting new things as part of Indeed's Product Incubator.

Helped improve conversion by focusing on initial user experience, as well as iterated on overall product focus, hitting key targets to help Journey get to their next round of fundraising.

Led deep study of customer behavior and shipped product improvements based on learnings, in addition to instilling product culture throughout the org.

In response to the 2016 election, Awaken was a meditation app offering practices on self-care, relationships, and social change. Recruited team, conceived and led Product, created and produced content, and scaled to ~10k downloads. The project is now being continued in a podcast and in a text message service called KindredText, offering text message conversation, creative, and reflection prompts with similar themes.

Resident Home is a family of D2C bedroom furniture brands (primarily mattresses). I was hired to break ground on new verticals outside the bedroom - served as full stack GM from research and discovery through launch.

Led digital product and ecommerce strategy, experimenting with pricing, acquisition, and marketing to drive topline sales growth. Also led projects across the company to revamp packaging and production. I’m an investor in the company and continue to serve as a general strategy advisor.

Led one of 4 Product teams at Warby, managed the PMs for two others.

Basically traditional PM role with a focus on product innovation reporting to Avaaz's CTO. Areas of focus range from functionality development to management to UX to testing, with the goal being to build our overall movement, deepen engagement with users, and increase our ability to win campaigns.

Given how much time and energy is spent trying to build communities online, I decided to take an extended trip and focus on learning about community as it manifests in the world – what role it plays in people’s lives, how it’s created and sustained (rituals, customs, culture, etc.), and which aspects of it are unique to a particular locale and which are universal. Locations were chosen to visit areas that had some of the strongest communities - places where cultures and rituals were most widespread across society. Also spent 1 month in silent retreat at Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Ladakh (Tibetan portion of India).

Raised $310k in angel investment from Jeff Fluhr (Co-founder, ex-CEO of Stubhub), Sanjay Mehrotra (Co-founder and current CEO of Sandisk), and others. Founded company and scaled sports league management product to 100 universities and 200,000 student users before acquisition by IMLeagues.com in September 2012. Core focus was product, also grew and managed team, and executed on sales, marketing, fundraising, and partnerships (including a marketing deal with Reebok).