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Driving innovation at LinkedIn and reinventing events at OMR with Christian Byza

Stun and Awe Episode 8

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Today, we deep dive into how LinkedIn develops products and innovates. Our guest left Germany a few years ago to work for some of the top tech companies in Silicon Valley. Christian Byza is Principal Product Manager, InMail & Premium Messaging at LinkedIn. He’s also Co-Founder of the OMR Festival, one of the world’s largest events for digital marketing and technology.

We talk about:

  • LinkedIn’s approach to feedback loops and user engagement
  • What KPIs or North Star metrics Christian’s team uses to measure success and manage new feature prioritization
  • How LinkedIn encourages innovation, tests ideas before starting to build, and measures success. 
  • LinkedIn's product development and vision, How Might Wes, and experiments
  • How Christian interacts with users and creates fans 
  • The importance of experience in designing remarkable events
  • The secret that helped OMR scale into one of the world’s largest events for digital marketing and technology
  • How Christian sees the future of event in a post-COVID19 world
  • Silicon Valley’s secret ingredient to driving innovation
  • The personality traits of successful people in Silicon Valley

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