The Product Compass Podcast | Product Management

Building The Right Product with Alberto Savoia, ex-innovator at Google


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My guest is Alberto Savoia, the first Engineering Director at Google. He's currently a lecturer at Stanford University and the author of the international bestseller "The Right It: Why So Many Ideas Fail and How to Make Sure Yours Succeed." 

In this episode, we cover:

  • (00:00) Introduction
  • (01:19) Bitten by a failure, Alberto decided to bite back!
  • (05:06) Market Research: Collect Skin-in-the-Game
  • (08:24) Collect Your Own Data (YODA)
  • (11:09) Say It With Numbers: The XYZ Hypothesis
  • (15:22) Test Your Ideas by Pretotyping
  • (20:01) Remember That Prototyping Is the Most Ethical Thing to Do
  • (23:44) Collect Enough Evidence
  • (27:15) Start With One Hypothesis
  • (29:53) Interview Customers Only to Explore the Problem Space
  • (35:07) Fall in Love With the Problem but Flirt With the Idea
  • (39:10) Build a Culture of Experimentation
  • (43:52) Final Discussion


Watch as a video + more information: https://youtu.be/aQ_SrxK9zjo

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