Professional Background
Prasad Reddy is a seasoned product leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling AI-driven and SaaS platforms across startups, mid-market companies, and Fortune 500 enterprises. His career represents the full spectrum of product leadership, from taking products from zero to one, to scaling them to hundreds of millions in revenue.
Most recently, Prasad served as Chief Product Officer at L-Nutra, where he led the product strategy and vision for a health and wellness technology company. In this executive role, he was responsible for the entire product organization, overseeing multiple product lines, coordinating cross-functional teams across engineering, design, marketing, and sales, and driving significant revenue growth.
Throughout his career, Prasad has delivered over $400 million in ARR through strategic product development and go-to-market execution. His expertise spans B2B SaaS, B2C platforms, AI/ML applications, and enterprise software. He's particularly known for his ability to identify market opportunities, build products that solve real customer problems, and scale them profitably.
What makes Prasad exceptional is his range: he's equally comfortable working on early-stage 0-1 products as he is optimizing mature products at scale. He's worked with scrappy startup teams of 5 people and led product organizations of 50+. This breadth of experience gives him unique insights into what works at every stage of product maturity and company growth.
Teaching Philosophy
Prasad believes that great product management is about connecting customer problems to business outcomes. Too many PMs get lost in features and roadmaps without understanding the "why" behind what they're building.
- Customer-Centric Product Thinking: Every product decision must start with a deep understanding of customer pain points. Prasad teaches students to become expert customer researchers who can uncover insights that competitors miss.
- Business Impact Focus: Features don't matter if they don't move business metrics. Prasad shows students how to connect their product work to revenue, retention, and strategic objectives that executives care about.
- Execution Excellence: Ideas are worthless without execution. Prasad teaches the practical aspects of shipping products: managing engineering teams, making trade-offs, handling ambiguity, and delivering results under constraints.
Students appreciate Prasad's real-world perspective. He doesn't teach textbook theory—he shares battle-tested strategies from building actual products that generated hundreds of millions in revenue.
Why Prasad Joined This Course
After two decades in product leadership, Prasad has interviewed hundreds of PM candidates and mentored dozens of PMs throughout their careers. He noticed a consistent gap: many aspiring PMs focus too much on getting hired and too little on succeeding once they land the role.
He saw talented people ace interviews with memorized frameworks, only to struggle when faced with the messy reality of actual product work. They knew how to talk about customer discovery but hadn't actually conducted meaningful user research. They could recite prioritization frameworks but couldn't make hard trade-off decisions.
Prasad joined this course because he believes the best preparation for landing a PM job is learning to actually do great product work. When you can demonstrate real product thinking—through your portfolio, your case study responses, and your articulation of past work—you naturally stand out in interviews.
His mission is to prepare students not just to get PM offers, but to thrive in PM roles and advance to senior and leadership positions. He brings a long-term perspective: your first PM job is just the beginning of a career that could span decades. Learning to think and execute like a product leader from day one sets you up for sustained success.
Areas of Expertise
0-1 Product Development
Expert in taking products from initial concept to market launch, including validation, MVP definition, and go-to-market strategy.
Product Scaling
Proven track record scaling products from early traction to $100M+ ARR through strategic roadmap execution.
AI/ML Products
Deep expertise building AI-driven products, working with data science teams, and identifying AI opportunities.
Enterprise SaaS
Extensive experience building B2B platforms for Fortune 500 companies with complex enterprise requirements.
Product Strategy
Creates winning product strategies that align with business goals and identify sustainable competitive advantages.
Product Leadership
Builds and manages product teams, establishes product processes, and drives cross-functional collaboration.
Prasad's Role in the Course
In this 12-week program, Prasad brings the executive product leadership perspective. While other instructors focus on landing the job, Prasad ensures you're prepared to excel once you get there.
- Building a compelling product portfolio that demonstrates real product thinking
- Articulating product strategy and vision in interviews like a product leader
- Mastering product execution interviews with real-world scenarios
- Understanding what hiring managers look for when evaluating PM candidates
- Navigating early days in your PM role to establish credibility and deliver quick wins
Prasad's coaching prepares you not just for interviews, but for a long, successful career in product management. His insights from 20+ years at multiple companies help you understand the full PM career arc and position yourself for rapid advancement.
Career Insights from Prasad
“The best PMs often come from non-PM backgrounds because they bring unique perspectives. Engineers understand technical constraints. Designers understand user needs. Your previous role isn't a disadvantage—it's your unique advantage. Learn to articulate how your background makes you a better PM.”
“Companies don't hire PMs just for skills—they hire for demonstrated judgment and product sense. Your portfolio and case study responses matter more than your resume. Show that you think like a PM, not just that you want to be one.”
“Strategy isn't about big vision statements. It's about making specific choices: which customers to serve, which problems to solve, what not to build. The best PMs are comfortable saying no to good ideas to say yes to great ones.”
“Advancing in PM isn't about tenure—it's about impact and scope. Focus on delivering measurable business outcomes early and often. The PMs who advance fastest are those who consistently show they can handle bigger, more ambiguous problems.”
Learn Product Leadership from Prasad
Gain the executive perspective and strategic thinking that separates good PMs from great ones.