Mo Gawdat
Author and former Google X executive
Mo Gawdat is an Egyptian author and former chief business officer at Google X. He wrote Solve for Happy, a book about engineering a path to happiness.
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Born 1967 in Egypt
About Mo Gawdat
Mo Gawdat was born in 1967 and is an Egyptian author and former technology executive. His career began at IBM Egypt as a systems engineer, and later included roles at NCR and Microsoft. He joined Google in 2007 to build its business in emerging markets, and in 2013 moved to Google X, where he led business strategy and partnerships. He has also cofounded more than 20 businesses. Solve for Happy: Engineering Your Path to Joy appeared in 2017. It presents a model for happiness that he developed through twelve years of research, and it is described as an international best seller. The model was tested in 2014, when he lost his son Ali after a surgical error. Our catalog also includes Scary Smart, That Little Voice in Your Head and Unstressable.