The Effective CMO: Uber's Lucinda Barlow

The WARC Podcast by WARC

Aug 4, 202600:32:57Business

Uber's Lucinda Barlow offers advice for marketers on how to build a safe culture for creative experimentation, identifying strategic blind spots, making decisions in times of extraordinary uncertainty and how to localise...

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