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Kiren Sekar discusses the innovation strategies at Samsara and the importance of customer feedback in product development.

Kiren Sekar (CPO @ Samsara) joins us to deconstruct the "Innovation Engine" behind Samsara, and how this system drives real-world impact and ROI across their products. We explore Samsara’s decade-long compound product strategy and the mechanics of accelerating feedback loops in an era where the primary bottlenecks shift from code generation to customer feedback and absorption of change. Kiren details how their data flywheel expands the aperture of what is possible to build and we dive into the system of customer-driven innovation: advisory boards, “spark sessions” to test hypotheses and gain unfiltered feedback. Plus we talk about the power of embedding engineers in frontline environments (from truckyards to construction sites) to cultivate “taste,” customer empathy and trigger non-linear ideas.

People in this episode

Guest: Kiren Sekar

Topics covered

• innovation
• feedback loops
• data flywheels
• customer-driven innovation
• engineering empathy

Keywords

• innovation engine
• real-world impact
• product strategy
• customer feedback
• engineering

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Samsara

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