Mina Radhakrishnan

Mina Radhakrishnan is a product manager and entrepreneur. After studying computer science and cognitive science at Cornell, she worked at Goldman Sachs, Google and ModCloth before joining Uber as its first product manager and later head of product, leading its product team for three years. She is one of the named inventors on Uber’s surge pricing patent. She has since been an entrepreneur in residence at Redpoint Ventures and co-founded :Different, an Australian property technology startup.

Mina Radhakrishnan’s talk The Art of Saying No was recorded at Mind the Product in 2015 and is filed under design process. As the title suggests, it deals with one of the harder parts of product work: deciding what not to build, and turning down ideas and requests so a team can focus on what matters most.