Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group
- Past
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- Senior VP Product Management and Design at eBay
- VP Platform and VP Product at AOL and Netscape Communications
- VP Products at Continuus Software Corp
- Researcher at Hewlett-Packard
- Education
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- Stanford University
- University of California, Santa Cruz
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Marty Cagan’s Summary
Held executive product positions at eBay, AOL, Netscape, Continuus and HP; start-ups and Fortune 500. Responsible for business strategy, product strategy, product management, product design, user experience and product development process for leading Internet companies.
Author of the book: "Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love" published in 2008.
Marty Cagan’s Specialties:
Specialize in defining successful products, building effective product teams, and improving product development processes. Publishes bi-weekly newsletter and blog to the product community. Clients include Yahoo!, eBay, TiVo, the BBC, PROTRADE Sports, and Internet startups in emerging markets worldwide.
Marty Cagan’s Experience
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Partner
Silicon Valley Product Group
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 2002 — Present (7 years 4 months)
We help companies with business strategy, product strategy, product requirements, product design, user experience, and the product development process by providing consulting and training services.
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Senior VP Product Management and Design
eBay
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; EBAY; Internet industry)
March 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 7 months)
Responsible for building the global product management and product design organizations (including interaction design, usability engineering and creative/visual design teams), and defining scalable processes to meet the diverse needs of the various business units.
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VP Platform and VP Product
AOL and Netscape Communications
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TWX; Internet industry)
September 1996 — March 2001 (4 years 7 months)
For Netscape I was responsible for platform technology, developer relations, and e-commerce applications. For AOL I was responsible for an organization that provided core technology to the various AOL and Time Warner divisions.
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VP Products
Continuus Software Corp
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; CNSW; Computer Software industry)
January 1991 — September 1996 (5 years 9 months)
Founder and VP Engineering, Product Management, CTO of this software tools company. Company since acquired by Telelogic.
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Researcher
Hewlett-Packard
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)
August 1981 — December 1990 (9 years 5 months)
Member of the Software Technology Lab of HP Labs, researched areas of software technology primarily object-oriented and rule-based languages and tools; also a founding member of the the Software Engineering Systems Division.
