Alberto Savoia gave this talk "Say It With Numbers: The Secret Math of PM Success" talk at Lean Product Meetup on March 23, 2021.

As Google’s first Director of Engineering, Alberto Savoia led the team that launched Google AdWords and later became the company’s Innovation Agitator. Prior to Google, Alberto was a successful serial entrepreneur, and the first Director of Software Technology Research at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, where he played a key role in the development of Java technology and tools.

Alberto’s work has won significant industry recognition and awards, including: The Wall Street Journal Technical Innovation Award, InfoWorld Top 25 CTOs Award, and InfoWorld’s Technology of the Year Award. Today, in addition to working on his own innovative ideas and projects, he writes and teaches his unique math-based approach for beating the Law of Market Failure in seminars and workshops at Google, Stanford University, and to organizations and entrepreneurs all over the world.

Alberto's latest book The Right It—Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed was published by HarperCollins in 2019.

If you would like to see more videos like this check out the following talks from past months:

▶ Dan Olsen's Product-Market Fit talk at Mind the Product SF 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDUrQlmwox4

▶ Jake Knapp about his book “Make Time” :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Sx9o85y-s

▶ Box CEO Aaron Levie Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJC_JuxRgIg

▶ “Product is Hard” by Marty Cagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCYFmrvPI8Q

▶ “Jobs to Be Done” by Tony Ulwick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQFUHapOJsQ

▶ Using Data to Set Your Product Strategy by Justin Bauer, VP of Product at Amplitude:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8XQVQy8Xiw

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