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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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If you want to accelerate traction, hit the growth stage, and upgrade your scaling skills, check out our Growth Leap online course. It’s a step-by-step guide to design your tech startup for high performance and impact. It’s packed with actionable and proven frameworks and tools to improve your startups performance, from better customer acquisition to clear prioritization and more productive meetings.

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Our guest today is a very inspiring woman on a mission to fight climate change with technology and education. Lubomila Jordanova is CEO & Founder of Plan A, a Berlin-based tech startup who helps companies reduce their environmental impact, engage their employees, and drive their own agenda towards carbon neutrality. 

We talk about:

• Setting a clear strategy
• The power of purpose-driven tech startups
• How she uses OKRs to align her team
• Which metrics she uses to measure her startup performance and impact
• What the future holds for sustainability
• Her recommendations to upgrade your skills in growth, entrepreneurship, management, and scaling your startup

For detailed show notes and relevant links, visit www.stunandawe.com 

If you want to accelerate traction, hit the growth stage, and upgrade your scaling skills, check out our Growth Leap online course. It’s a step-by-step guide to design your tech startup for high performance and impact. It’s packed with actionable and proven frameworks and tools to improve your startups performance, from better customer acquisition to clear prioritization and more productive meetings.

Learn more here: https://growth.stunandawe.com/course 

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With the rise of AI and robots, what’s the future of work for us mere mortals? Our guest today has an answer to that question. Sallyann Della Casa is Founder and Chief Identity Hacker at GLEAC, an edtech company based in Dubai who benchmarks, maps, develops, and measures soft skills to current and future jobs. 

We talk about:

• The courage it takes to become an entrepreneur and follow your own path
• The challenges and pitfalls of launching a tech startup when you’re a non-tech founder 
• How GLEAC helps Prada, Accenture, and Deloitte with sales training and augmented reality
• How GLEAC tackles the forgetting curve and differentiates itself from well established players with a clear USP
• Sallyann's growth mindset and approach to going for the $1 million deal
• How to scale and manage a distributed team
• The challenges of product development when you’re a non-tech founder
• How the COVID-19 crisis impacted the GLEAC business 
• What GLEAC is doing to help people develop 21st century skills.
• Sallyann’s not-to-do list and why dropping sales leads is sometimes the right thing to do
• Which tools Sallyann uses to manage product development with teams in different time zones
• The challenge of building a company culture in distributed team
• Sallyann’s advice to other startup leaders on managing their own psychology

For detailed show notes and relevant links, visit www.stunandawe.com 

If you want to accelerate traction, hit the growth stage, and upgrade your scaling skills, check out our Growth Leap online course. It’s a step-by-step guide to design your tech startup for high performance and impact. It’s packed with actionable and proven frameworks and tools to improve your startups performance, from better customer acquisition to clear prioritization and more productive meetings.

Learn more here: https://growth.stunandawe.com/course 

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Suzaan Sauerman is a consultant, tech columnist, advisor, and investor with a clear focus on wearables and hearables in the fitness, wellness, and fashion space. She sits on the Board of PreCure and NoviPel, and runs her own consultancy firm. On this episode, Suzaan talks about the need to make wearables more design-led and gender neutral, how they could make us live longer, and touches on the rise of women in tech.

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Matias Søndergaard is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Rokoko, a startup based in Copenhagen and San Francisco. They developed a smartsuit that gives indie film and game makers access to a complex technology that used to be only accessible to deep-pocket Hollywood studios. On this episode, Matias talks about how it all started, the challenges they've had to overcome, and how they plan to further democratize motion capture.

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Rey Buckman is the Airbus BizLab Campus Leader in Hamburg, Germany. Through this accelerator, Rey's job is to find innovative people both inside and outside the company, support them in developing their ideas and technologies, and ultimately enable them to implement their projects or win Airbus as a new customer. 

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Philipp Wehn is Digital Innovation Manager at Siemens Mobility. Over the past year, he has been piloting a new approach to innovation at the company involving rapid prototyping, wearable technology, and external partners. The goal: become as fast as startups in terms of innovation. The result is quite impressive.

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Timothy Brownstone is Founder and CEO of UK-based Kymira, a smart fabric and wearable technology company. Kymira's products have been used or tested by the British Special Forces, Olympic athletes, and astronauts. Kymira produces wearable products that react and interact with the human body using patented technology to convert heat into energy and information, enhances the performance of athletes, aid circulation and recovery, and even monitors the well-being of unborn babies.

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