27: Creating Team Culture at Uber by Chris Saad

Meet Chris:

“Serial Entrepreneur. Strategic Adviser. Former Head of Product @ Uber Developer Platform. Co-author of APML. Co-founder of the DataPortability Project. Mentor @ Founders for Founders. Podcaster. Aussie living in both San Francisco and Brisbane. Curious about everything.”

I build Strategies, Products, Messages, Brands, Ecosystems, Standards and Startups.

I am interested in both the form and the function. I prefer streams over pages, liberal over conservative, open over closed. I am interested in helping others succeed so that we can all work and play in shared personal and professional success.

I have been a leader in the following fields...

• Startups

I have started, built and run a series of great startups. Most as CEO, all as co-founder.

• Product Management and Design

Designing Minimum Viable Products (MVP), User Experience, User Interface, Baking in social etc.

• Developer Platforms

APIs, SDKs, Ecosystems & more. Built a platform from 0 to 85 Billion API calls a month (Echo). Ran Product for Uber Developer Platform.

• On-Demand/Sharing Economy

Building two-sided marketplaces, managing reputation & trust, marketplace management etc

•  Future of Media

Worked with all major media including ABC, Reuters, CNN, AMC, TechCrunch etc to help them design and build next-generation media experiences and monetization models.

•  Enterprise BD, Sales, Strategy & Support

Building, selling and supporting products into large brands and media companies. I worked with central product and IT groups at CNN, Univision, NASDQ, Disney, UMG, NBCU, Coke, Fanta, AT&T and more.

• Data Portability

Developing, participating in and inventing open standards and protocols for interoperability between independent services and tools.

•  Unbundling

The breaking down of companies, apps, services into more discrete component parts for hyper-persona

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