Nodes of Design#26: Product Pitching by Guru Vaidya

Guru Vaidya is a Technical Evangelist with over a decade of experience in product evangelism. Currently, he is a Solution Consulting Manager at Adobe. Previously he had worked for companies like Nvidia, Dream forest films, and Pixion. Over the years, guru has helped launch several product versions of Adobe and Autodesk software across India. These include Press conferences and Trade Shows like FMX, Broadcast India, IBC. Guru has vast experience in value selling to enterprises. It has helped him close deals with clients like Cognizant, NDTV, Infosys, ETV, Star India, Reliance and Prime Focus.  Product pitching is important for designers to pitch their decisions or the products that they design. In this episode, Guru explained what exactly is product pitching and shared effective techniques, and in the later, we discussed how to structure content before pitching.  Takeaways: What is product pitching? Techniques for effective pitching/presentation, Content structuring and presentation preparation?  Books recommended by Guru Vaidya. Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg McKeown  Design Warp Medium Publication - https://medium.com/design-warp  If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.