Nils Stotz — Head of Product | Experimentation & AI | Lecturer | Researcher | Springer Author | Bocconi
Head of Product | Experimentation & AI | Lecturer | Researcher | Springer Author | Bocconi
Nils Stotz ranks #555 of 18,566 LinkedIn creators in Retail, and is a standout voice in Germany. They have 10.9K followers and published 22 posts in the last 60 days at a 0.5% average engagement rate.
- 10.9K followers
- 22 posts / 60d
- 0.5% avg engagement
- 203 follower growth / 30d
The roast
Nils claims 80 percent of features are useless, which explains why he spends his work week writing Springer books nobody reads to keep his 0.69 percent engagement rate company. He’s the human equivalent of a Zalando return pile: technically inventory, but nobody is actually buying it.
About Nils
80% of product features are rarely used. Yet companies still invest billions in gut decisions. I believe we can change that – by making Experimentation the central principle of product, strategy, and innovation. I explore how experiments can answer not just small UX questions, but the big bets: business models, growth strategies, and organizational choices. Here on LinkedIn, I share tools, ideas, and stories from the global Experimentation community — to inspire a shift towards truly evidence-based innovation.
Highlights
- Top 5% in Retail — Ranked #11 of 858 creators
- Top 5% in Germany — Ranked #17 of 762 creators
- Top 5% Creator — 22 posts in 30 days
- Top 25% Audience — 10,945 followers
Recent posts
September was a very good month for anyone interested in experimentation, AI and how products are changing ;) I continued my “30 Days of Ideas” format: one thing worth reading, watching or listening to every day. A few highlights: 🎥 YouTube introducing A/B testing for video cuts is super exciting. Creators will be able to test up to three versions and learn which opening retains attention best. Experimentation is moving directly into the creative process. 📄 I was very happy to see David Holtz and his co-authors’ article on the future of large-scale experiments finally published in Nature
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“Synthetic users will never work.” And yet, the money moves. 💸 I’ve been following this space for quite a while. Each time I update our landscape, the market sends more signals: more companies, broader use cases and increasingly serious funding rounds. We have now mapped 66 companies focused on synthetic users. A few recent examples: 💰 Simile raised a $200M Series B—only five months after its $100M Series A. 🧠 Aaru reportedly raised more than $50M in a Series A. 👥 Electric Twin announced $14M in total funding, including a recent $10M round. 📊 BluePill raised a $6M seed round to develop it
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The Austin three-peat is happening. And this time, I’m keynoting. 🎤🎤🎤 Two years ago, I went to #CIRCUS in Austin for the first time. And weirdly enough, I still connect that trip with a bit of a turning point for me. I remember actually debating whether I should go at all. I’m very glad I did. Until then, a lot of my experimentation world existed online. LinkedIn posts, comments, names I kept seeing, conversations with people I had never actually met. Then I arrived in Austin and suddenly all of that became real. People knew each other. Some people even knew things I had written. Convers
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