Itamar Gilad

“It's a pleasure being here, thank you for inviting me.”

“Maybe the early tests show it's good, then we just go all in and we try to implement it and I made this very mistake many times as the product manager, I was the guy pushing for the ideas. So for me, ...”

“So there was a tremendous earthquake inside Google to create the Google+ team, teams and the entire divisions were kind of thrown apart and reformatted and I think at its peak it was about 1000 people...”

“It was a division the size of Android and Docs and a really sizable thing, they're under their own buildings. It's taken from the playbook of Steve Jobs, create this whole secretive project inside and...”

“Yeah, it's true. But at the end of the day, neither Google's advertising revenue was affected, neither was Facebook affected. So it turned out this idea was not that necessary after all.”

“Most of these users are using this feature, so it was a pretty high impact feature as well.”

“Yeah, there are a couple more that you can enable in settings if you like.”

“Yeah. Newsletters are a very complicated scenario for the categorization engine.”

“But it's just as a general trend, I find that evidence is very empowering for us smaller people in the organization or mid-level managers to be empowered to challenge the opinions.”

“It's usually something that you can fix by adopting a more evidence guided system.”

“With your permission, I can show a few slides.”

“I think talking about each one will help.”