Bruno Aziza
Partner at Capital G
Alphabet
Bruno Aziza is the senior partner at Capital G at Alphabet. He’s been focused on high-growth SaaS and enterprise software and led product, marketing, sales and business development teams across all phases of growth, from startups to mid-size companies and Fortune 10 software leaders.
Most recently, he ran outbound product management at Google Cloud, where he helped grow the data and analytics business by five times.
Bruno was educated in France, England and Germany. Bruno is an avid soccer player and enjoys standup comedy and good food, particularly when it’s related to his native country of France! For more, you can find him at linkedin.com/in/brunoaziza.
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Give us a brief overview of the path that led to your current role.
I’ve been in data and AI for the last 25 years. I started when nobody cared! I’ve worked with small, medium and large organizations in the domain, from starting a company from my garage to managing large teams at Oracle, Microsoft and Google.
I have a deep passion for customers, technology and company building. I curate “The CarCast”, a podcast on everything tech, data & AI, syndicated online to six million viewers. (https://tinyurl.com/TheCarCast).
What is one of your guiding leadership principles?
I’ve been lucky to be the right-hand person to a few CEOs throughout my career. I learned a lot from them about how to hire and scale teams in diverse environments: startups and scale-ups.
I’ve learned that the most important principles include collaboration, courage, clarity and accountability (or CCCA). I’ve also learned that great leadership starts with self-awareness. That’s why, over the years, I’ve refined my “user-guide”, a document that provides insights in my operating principles. Many of my team members have contributed to it (one of them even called it “How To Bruno.”) You can find a version of it at bit.ly/HowToBruno.
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