Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance and brought to

its founder Cameron Herald.

In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,

and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

And now here's your host, Cameron Harold.

Our guest today is Christy Kim, the C.O. of persona, the identity infrastructure company

backed by Index Ventures and Co2 that offers businesses the building blocks to create personalized

identity verification experiences for any use case. In her role, Christie oversees

persona's business and operations function, including sales, marketing, customer success and operations. She's

leading the team toward the company's mission to be the

identity layer of the internet for customers including square,

sonder, brex, udamy, gusto, blockfi, corsera, and angelist.

Previously, Christie was at LinkedIn where she was the head of business development for LinkedIn learning solutions. So, Christy, welcome to the Second Command podcast.

Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. You've got a pretty cool bio, pretty cool base of experience. I want to I want to talk

about LinkedIn a little bit. I want to find a little bit about persona. I was on I think I'm like

member number 200,000 or something on LinkedIn, which was early, but still, but still feels so late because my co-author for my book, Free PR was member number 7,000. I'm like, how did you know about it?

Like, were you at like a dinner party

with a couple of tech geeks?

Like, what the hell?

What was it like at LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is

a lovely place to work, honestly.

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