Alberto Savoia gave this talk "How to Be An Apex Product Innovator" talk at Lean Product Meetup on September 12, 2023.

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:

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▶ "Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey Moore
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▶ "How to Iterate & Improve Your Product with Rapid User Testing" by Dan Olsen
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▶ "Mastering the Problem Space to Achieve Product-Market Fit" by Dan Olsen
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▶ Jake Knapp about his new book “Make Time” :
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▶ Using Data to Set Your Product Strategy by Justin Bauer, who is the VP of Product at Amplitude:
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