Inside AI growth strategy
Pranjal Saxena — Principal, Strategy & Chief of Staff for YouTube Strategy & Finance, Google
In this Xraised episode, we sit down with Pranjal Saxena, Principal and Chief of Staff for Strategy and Finance at YouTube, where he reports directly to YouTube's CFO equivalent and leads strategic initiatives targeting 200 million incremental daily active users over three years. With an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Chemical Engineering degree from IIT Kanpur where he graduated top of his batch, Pranjal brings first-principles thinking and a rare breadth of experience across strategy, product scaling, M&A, and AI-driven growth.
In this Xraised episode, we sit down with Pranjal Saxena, Principal and Chief of Staff for Strategy and Finance at YouTube, where he reports directly to YouTube’s CFO equivalent and leads strategic initiatives targeting incremental daily active users over three years. With an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Chemical Engineering degree from IIT Kanpur where he graduated top of his batch, Pranjal brings first-principles thinking and a rare breadth of experience across strategy, product scaling, M&A, and AI-driven growth.
Pranjal opens by tracing the common thread across a career that has spanned ITC, McKinsey, Google Cloud, and now YouTube: a consistent drive toward innovation, new business models, and a willingness to step outside his comfort zone. It is a mindset that has positioned him at the intersection of some of the most consequential decisions in consumer technology today.
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