Founder & Partner of Silicon Valley Product Group; Author & Authority on Successful Product Creation
Marty Cagan Biography
Before founding Silicon Valley Product Group to pursue his interests in helping others create successful products through his writing, speaking, advising and coaching, Marty Cagan served as an executive responsible for defining and building products for some of the most successful companies in the world, including Hewlett-Packard, Netscape Communications, and eBay.
Marty began his career with a decade as a software developer at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories conducting research on software technology, and building several software products for other software developers.
After HP, Marty joined a then young Netscape Communications Corporation, where he had the opportunity to participate in the birth of the Internet industry. Marty worked directly for co-founder Marc Andreessen, where he was vice-president for Netscape’s platform and tools, and later e-commerce applications, and worked to help Internet start-ups and Fortune 500 companies alike to understand and utilize the newly emerging technology.
Marty was most recently senior vice-president of product and design for eBay, where he was responsible for defining products and services for the company’s global e-commerce trading site.
During his career, Marty has personally performed and managed most of the roles of a modern software product organization, including product management, software development, product marketing, user experience design, software testing, engineering management, and general management.
As part of his work with SVPG, Marty is an invited speaker at major conferences and top companies across the globe.
He is also the author of the books TRANSFORMED: Moving to the Product Operating Model, INSPIRED: How to Create Products Customers Love and EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products.
Marty is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz with B.A. degrees in Computer Science and Applied Economics (1981), and of the Stanford University Executive Institute (1994).
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Marty Cagan Speaking Topics
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Fireside Chat Style
Rather than going deep into a specific topic, in this option, one of the company leaders collects and selects questions that we discuss together. This style is usually selected when the company has a range of topics that are important and timely, and this lets the company select and frame each of these topics considered most relevant.
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Product Is Hard
This talk discusses how strong product companies create great products.
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Marty Cagan is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Fireside Chat Style, Product Is Hard, Empowered Product Teams, Product Leadership Is Hard and Keys to Successful Transformation. The estimated speaking fee range to book Marty Cagan for your event is $30,000 - $50,000. Marty Cagan generally travels from Silicon Valley, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Gibson Biddle, Josh Linkner, Mel Lim, Afdhel Aziz and Christopher Harness. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Marty Cagan for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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