Deb Liu

Tech Executive, Former CEO of Ancestry & Author of "Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work"

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Deb Liu Biography

Deb Liu was most recently the President and CEO of Ancestry. With twenty years in the tech industry, she was named Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Women of Influence, Business Insider’s most powerful female engineers, and one of PaymentsSource’s most influential women in payments. She was previously a senior executive at Meta, where she created and led Facebook Marketplace, a platform for over a billion people to buy from and sell to one another. She also led the development of Facebook’s first mobile ad product for apps and its mobile ad network, in addition to building the company’s games business and payments platform, which includes Facebook Pay. Before Facebook, she spent several years in product roles at PayPal and eBay, where she led integration between the two products. She serves on the board of Intuit and is a seed investor and advisor to several startups. She also holds several payments and commerce-related patents.

Actively involved in promoting diversity in tech, Liu founded Women In Product, a nonprofit with over 30,000 members, with the goal of connecting and supporting women in the product management field. She is a member of the Committee of 100, a group of prominent Chinese Americans, and was named an A100 by Gold House, an honor recognizing impactful Asian Americans. She serves on the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering Board of Visitors.

Liu received a BS in Civil Engineering from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She is the author of the book, "Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work." Each week, she posts her thoughts in Perspectives, her Substack newsletter. She lives in California with her husband and three children, and enjoys chronicling their family adventures in her Mommy School comic strip.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/22/2025.

Deb Liu Speaking Topics

  • The Art of Product Strategy

    Inspire product and business teams with a dynamic approach to building visionary yet executable strategies. Deb Liu introduces the "Four O's" framework—Opinionated, Objective, Operable, Obvious—and explains why great strategies often fail in execution.

  • Creating Fertile Ground for Innovation

    Explore how to cultivate a culture where breakthrough ideas thrive. This session reveals how to empower teams, eliminate innovation blockers, and drive experimentation with real-world examples.

  • Finding Your Voice

    Go beyond the concept of “personal brand” to discover your true leadership voice. This talk helps individuals identify their superpowers and articulate what they stand for.

  • Take Back Your Power

    Based on Deb Liu’s bestselling book, this session empowers audiences with ten actionable rules for reclaiming their influence and thriving in challenging work environments.

Deb Liu Videos

  • Deb Liu - Harvard Business Review
    Deb Liu says women need to reframe their relationship to power.
  • Deb Liu - Yahoo Finance
    How Deb Liu is making Ancestry.com 'more accessible for everyone
  • Deb Liu - 2019 Product Leader Summit
    Deb Liu on creating fertile ground for product innovation

Deb Liu Books

  • Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work
    Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work

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Deb Liu is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Art of Product Strategy, Creating Fertile Ground for Innovation, Finding Your Voice and Take Back Your Power. The estimated speaking fee range to book Deb Liu for your event is $30,000 - $50,000. Deb Liu generally travels from Palo Alto, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Nicole Yeary, Kavita Shukla, Frances West, Arlan Hamilton and Dr. Monica F. Cox. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Deb Liu for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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