The role of data and AI in Enterprise product growth | Lucas Thelosen, Former Head of Product, Data and AI Cloud, Google
April 3, 2024
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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