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