The role of data and AI in Enterprise product growth | Lucas Thelosen, Former Head of Product, Data and AI Cloud, Google

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, our host Adam Stead is joined by Lucas Thelosen, the Former Head of Product, Data & AI Cloud at Google. Together they discuss the treatment of Data and AI as their own product within a business, and how Lucas’s domestic-first approach to product development can benefit global growth.

In this episode of Building Globally: Lessons in Enterprise Product Growth, our host Adam Stead is joined by Lucas Thelosen, the Head of Product, Data & AI Cloud at Google.

Together they discuss

Google’s acquisition of Lucas’s old business, Looker
Why AI and Data should be treated as a standalone product within a business
The application of AI to product management roles to achieve growth
Lucas’s domestic-first approach to Global business development

Lucas has been at Google for over four years now, and carries more than fifteen years experience in data analytics and AI. When he’s not at his desk, he’s at a lectern as a guest lecturer at the University of Colorado, where he teaches Business Analytics to the next generation.

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Previous guests include: Jean-Baptiste Gehin, Head of Product at N26; Shahzad Shaikh, Head of Product Management, Growth, Mobile, and Customer Engagement, Asana; Mauricio Monico Chief Product Officer at Wish; Derek Boman, Head of Product Design at Avant; Lucas Thelosen, Former Head of Product, Data and AI Cloud at Google; Marc Esmiley, FS Product Director at Microsoft; Diego dos Santos, Director of Product Management at Mastercard; Manlio Lo Conte, Advisor at xZwift and Meta; Sanah Ansari, Director of Product at Capital One; Kam Star, Chief Product Officer at Chaos; Meg Watson, Product Lead at Doordash; Daniel Lereya, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Monday.com; and many others.

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