Mo Gawdat

CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER AT GOOGLE’S [X] (2015-2018).

BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF «SOLVE FOR HAPPY: ENGINEERING YOUR PATH TO JOY».

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Mo Gawdat is a remarkable thinker and the former Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], an elite team of engineers that comprise Google’s futuristic “dream factory.” Gawdat manages Google’s business in over 50 countries with his background as an Engineer, paired with an MBA degree from Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands.

[X] is Google’s secret innovation lab responsible for many of breakthrough innovations such as Self-Driving cars, Project Loon, Google Brain, among many others. Its approach to radical innovation and moonshots enabled Google to address some of the biggest challenges facing human kind and [X]’s focus on building an innovation factory process resulted in a predictable pipeline of breakthrough inventions and mega size businesses.

Mo Gawdat joined Google in 2007 and continues to focus on his biggest passion: Emerging Markets and the vast degree of diversity and challenges they face. Over the years, Gawdat has started close to half of Google’s operations worldwide. Gawdat contributed significantly to establish the model of operation that is now considered the gold standard in technology innovation around the world, and to land the radical moonshots started as rational successful businesses that are accepted in our day to day world.

Applying his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposes an algorithm based on an understanding of how the brain takes in and processes joy and sadness. He is the author of «Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy» – a book dedicated to his son Ali Gawdat who died in 2014, the book outlines methods for managing and preventing disappointment.

Mo Gawdat is also a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than 15 businesses in his career. He actively serves as a Board Member in several technology, health and fitness and consumer goods start-ups as well as several government technology and innovation boards in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

Mo Gawdat shares his valuable knowledge of innovation and the changing fundamentals of business in every field and country globally. His also tells the story of his personal journey to find happiness through “the happiness equation.” Mo Gawdat speaks Arabic, English, German as well as some Turkish and Russian.

The End of Sci-Fi – The correct approach to innovation in the 21st.

The latest innovations driving technological advances.

Applying engineering techniques to create happiness.

How innovation can solve the world’s biggest challenges.

Technology trends in emerging markets and beyond.

Solve for Happy: The truth about happiness.

SOLVE FOR HAPPY: ENGINEERING YOUR PATH TO JOY.

Mo Gawdat is a remarkable thinker and the Chief Business Officer at Google’s [X], an elite team of engineers that comprise Google’s futuristic “dream factory.” Applying his superior skills of logic and problem solving to the issue of happiness, he proposes an algorithm based on an understanding of how the brain takes in and processes joy and sadness. Then he solves for happy.

In 2001 Mo Gawdat realized that despite his incredible success, he was desperately unhappy. A lifelong learner, he attacked the problem as an engineer would: examining all the provable facts and scrupulously applying logic. Eventually, his countless hours of research and science proved successful, and he discovered the equation for permanent happiness.

Thirteen years later, Mo’s algorithm would be put to the ultimate test. After the sudden death of his son, Ali, Mo and his family turned to his equation—and it saved them from despair. In dealing with the horrible loss, Mo found his mission: he would pull off the type of “moonshot” goal that he and his colleagues were always aiming for—he would share his equation with the world and help as many people as possible become happier.

In Solve for Happy Mo questions some of the most fundamental aspects of our existence, shares the underlying reasons for suffering, and plots out a step-by-step process for achieving lifelong happiness and enduring contentment. He shows us how to view life through a clear lens, teaching us how to dispel the illusions that cloud our thinking; overcome the brain’s blind spots; and embrace five ultimate truths.

No matter what obstacles we face, what burdens we bear, what trials we’ve experienced, we can all be content with our present situation and optimistic about the future.


SOLVE FOR HAPPY: ENGINEERING YOUR PATH TO JOY.

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