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77 statements across 45 episodes · 31 bullish · 12 bearish · 40 people on the record · first statement Jan 19, 2015 by Kent Godfrey · said 794 times in 289 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (237), Tomer Cohen (91), Luke Harries (31), Jason Lemkin (31), Becca Lindquist (15), Reid Hoffman (10), Keith Rabois (9), Emilie Choi (9)

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Everything said about LinkedIn, oldest first

Jan 19, 2015
Insight
Seek mentors through inner circles, not cold LinkedIn outreach
“I would more use the inner circle, more, more you know, people that you have just by happenstance met along the way.”
Kent Godfrey Jan 19, 2015 ▶ 5:53 20 VC 005: Be The Best CEO with Kent Godfrey
Feb 26, 2015
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lisa Wu: Norwest rarely converts cold inbound pitches into actual investments
“We get a lot of inbound via LinkedIn and also through our website, and we do review each of those opportunities that come through those, but it's actually pretty rare that an opportunity that comes in through those channels actually converts into an actual inv…”
Lisa Wu Feb 26, 2015 ▶ 7:10 20 VC 015: Marketplaces, IPOs and the NY Startup Scene with Lisa Wu
Mar 19, 2015
Insight
Wienbar: Founders Should Use Customized LinkedIn Messages for Cold VC Outreach
“I think the more thoughtful place to do a sort of a cold outreach is on LinkedIn. But please don't link it, you know, ask to link to me just with the canned, you know, I'd like to connect with you, but I think a lot of deal flow both on Twitter and LinkedIn wh…”
Sharon Wienbar Mar 19, 2015 ▶ 32:23 20 VC 021: Gender Equality, Startup Valuations and 'Friend Raising before Fund Raising with Sharon Wienbar
Apr 9, 2015
Disclosure
Transmedia Capital gained Snapchat, Twitter, and LinkedIn stakes via startup acquisitions
“Well, those Snapchat, LinkedIn, and Twitter were all through acquisitions. Scan was a company that was acquired by Snapchat. Snappy TV was acquired by Twitter, and Nozzle was acquired by LinkedIn. So that's how we have positions those companies.”
Chris Redlitz Apr 9, 2015 ▶ 3:37 20 VC 026: Chris Redlitz on The Importance of People, Pivoting and The Last Mile
Jun 4, 2015
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Altucher secured meetings at Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn through personal writing
“I visited Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn, you know, with high up people at each company just because of my people knew me for my writing.”
James Altucher Jun 4, 2015 ▶ 4:06 James Altucher: Ideas, Investing and Entrepreneurs
Jun 29, 2015 bullish
Opinion
Campus Job Built Student Brand Equity Where LinkedIn Fell Short
“The company has really created a brand at A place in the hiring market where LinkedIn doesn't have a huge brand yet and we believe that the first job that, the first jobs even, that a student or a kid gets are really emotional and a powerful place to build a b…”
Spencer Lazar Jun 29, 2015 ▶ 25:32 20 VC 049: VC is Getting Younger with Spencer Lazar @ General Catalyst Partners
Jan 1, 2016 positive
Opinion
Hanson: Reid Hoffman stepping down as LinkedIn CEO was smart and selfless
“I did promise that I'd divert everybody to Founders Friday episode two for more on that but my serious answer is going to be Reid Hoffman and I know I mentioned him before with the Alliance, but I think in terms of a founder who, one of the things I really adm…”
Richard Hanson Jan 1, 2016 ▶ 22:34 20VC FF 028: Where To Start Your Startup and Single Founder vs Co-Founder Model with Richard Hanson, Co-Founder & CEO @ HiringScreen
Feb 8, 2016
Assertion Supported
Gil Penchina's early investments include PayPal, LinkedIn, and AngelList
“Some of Gil's investments include some pretty well-known companies that you might have heard of, including PayPal, LinkedIn, AngelList themselves, Indiegogo, and many, many more.”
Harry Stebbings Feb 8, 2016 ▶ 1:14 20VC: Gil Penchina on Building The World's Largest AngelList Syndicate with Flight.vc
Feb 26, 2016 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Digg was dismantled and sold to Washington Post, LinkedIn, and Betaworks
“At the end of 2012, what happened was that Dig was really split apart into kind of three different deals. The first was that a lot of the folks, the people, and the tech went to Washington Post, and then the second was that a bunch of the patents went to Linke…”
Gary Liu Feb 26, 2016 ▶ 11:48 20VC: Digg CEO, Gary Liu on The Rebirth Of Digg & The Evolution Of Content
Aug 12, 2016 positive
Insight
Nash: Reid Hoffman's handover to Jeff Weiner is the model CEO transition
“You know, Reid Hoffman, who I'm very close with is obviously the founder and has been the person guiding LinkedIn since the get-go, but the way that he brought Jeff Wiener on board and kind of empowered him to run that company I think is a model for how those …”
Adam Nash Aug 12, 2016 ▶ 3:26 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
Aug 12, 2016
Assertion Partly supported
LinkedIn had no dedicated user experience team in early 2007
“When I joined LinkedIn in the beginning of 2007 they didn't even have a user experience team, right?”
Adam Nash Aug 12, 2016 ▶ 14:21 20VC: Wealthfront's Adam Nash on What Makes Great CEO's & Why Humans Suck At Investing
Sep 2, 2016 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Minshew: Microsoft acquiring LinkedIn opens competitive room for The Muse
“I think that, that the Microsoft acquisition does have Shareholder value, and there's some interesting synergies, but if anything, I believe it will pull LinkedIn a direction that opens up even more space for us to really focus on the experience of an individu…”
Kathryn Minshew Sep 2, 2016 ▶ 25:12 20VC: How To Win The Strategic Process Of Fundraising and Optimising Co-Founder Relationships and Break Ups with Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO @ The Muse
Mar 24, 2017 bullish
Insight
Network-connected software is the next major evolution in B2B enterprise
“The thing we saw very early on was in the consumer world, we were all moving to networks. This idea that cloud was going to be about the same applications as we had on our desktop, but delivered through the browser was breaking down and we saw a whole new gene…”
Christian Lanng Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 3:12 20VC: How To Raise $200m In Any Economic Climate, Scale From Garage To Global In Record Time & The Biggest Startup You Have Not Heard About with Christian Lanng, Founder & CEO @ Tradeshift
Apr 19, 2017
Assertion Supported
Polovets: LinkedIn had five or six engineers post-Series A in 2003
“And so I spent a couple of years there just when the engineering team was like five, six people most of the time.”
Leo Polovets Apr 19, 2017 ▶ 3:10 20VC: Investing; A Game Of Access Or Picking, Why Technical DD At Seed Is Irrelevant & Why A Contrarian Mindset Does Not Always Lead To Optimal Returns with Leo Polovets, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Susa Ventures
Jun 9, 2017 positive
Opinion
LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner is the best at defining corporate vision
“Jeff Wiener at LinkedIn, I think, is probably the best at doing this, right? Really being clear about a vision, and a mission, and strategy, and culture, and values.”
Chris O'Neill Jun 9, 2017 ▶ 7:47 20VC: Evernote CEO on Why You Play For The Front of Your Jersey Not The Back, Why Success Is A Team Sport & Why Leadership Should Accept The Negative Consequences In All Situations
Jun 26, 2017 bullish
Disclosure
Levine: Bessemer's LinkedIn investment generated a 100x return despite others passing
“Invested in LinkedIn, the two existing VCs thought the price we were paying was so crazy that they invested nothing in the round. I think that round ended up at something like a hundred X return.”
Jeremy Levine Jun 26, 2017 ▶ 21:49 20VC: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on Why We Are In A Fallow Period For Consumer, Why It Is Bogus That Operational VCs Can Add More Value & 2 Golden Rules To Always Tell Entrepreneurs Pre-Investment
Jan 10, 2018 positive
Assertion Supported
Evernote and LinkedIn succeeded in China by granting local leaders autonomy
“For a long time now, people have pointed to Evernote and LinkedIn as being decent deployment that happened in China. And both of those cases, they hired very local sort of general managers or heads of China. It gave them the freedom to build their own teams, l…”
Crystal Huang Jan 10, 2018 ▶ 14:48 20VC: 3 Key Differences Between US and Asian Tech Markets & With Such Large Incumbents Chasing Early Acquisitions, Is There A Market For Later Stage VC with Crystal Huang, Investor @ GGV Capital
Jan 15, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Choi: LinkedIn retains acquired engineers above overall company average
“For LinkedIn, fortunately, we are actually trending slightly above that”
Emilie Choi Jan 15, 2018 ▶ 23:34 20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
Jan 15, 2018 positive
Assertion Supported
Choi: LinkedIn had three acquired founders leading main business lines
“At one point, for example, at LinkedIn, we had three founders running the three key business lines at the company”
Emilie Choi Jan 15, 2018 ▶ 23:02 20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
Jan 15, 2018 neutral
Disclosure
Choi: LinkedIn Uses a RAPID Framework for Internal M&A Approvals
“We at LinkedIn have implemented something called a rapid process. There is one usually executive level sponsor who will, on R&D usually, who will recommend this acquisition. The other R&D person, for example, the head of engineering for that particular group, …”
Emilie Choi Jan 15, 2018 ▶ 16:15 20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
Jan 15, 2018 positive
Disclosure
Choi: LinkedIn Corp Dev prefers starting startup relationships at seed stage
“In many cases, it's at seed level. And again, it doesn't mean that there has to be anything transactional about the relationship, but it's good for us to start interacting at that stage if they're in a space that we're interested in.”
Emilie Choi Jan 15, 2018 ▶ 8:55 20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
Mar 25, 2019
Insight
Early-stage SaaS companies cannot hide fast growth from LinkedIn headcount tracking
“So if you're an early stage SaaS company, you can't really hide if you're growing fast. People can check your LinkedIn headcount, see how fast you're hiring on the website, what type of people.”
Alex Clayton Mar 25, 2019 ▶ 6:35 20VC: Spark Capital's Alex Clayton on How The Best Growth Investors Source, Evaluate and Win Deals, Why Market Depth Is Crucial When Analysing Markets & Why Capital Is Only A Temporary Competitive Advantage
Jun 22, 2020 bearish
Disclosure
Wilkinson: Tiny's remote job board is a feature vulnerable to LinkedIn
“We also own the remote job board business. I have no idea how long that'll exist because LinkedIn can easily come along and start adding remote jobs as a feature. And at the end of the day, our business is kind of a feature, not a product.”
Andrew Wilkinson Jun 22, 2020 ▶ 20:43 20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
Apr 19, 2021
Assertion Partly supported
LinkedIn, Facebook, and Roblox took between 8 and 17 years to IPO
“LinkedIn was eight to 10 years to going public. Facebook was 10 to 12. You know, Roblox, 17 years.”
David Sze Apr 19, 2021 ▶ 14:41 20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
Apr 19, 2021
Insight
Sze: Analytical VC partners fail if they cannot make decisive investment calls
“So there's so much uncertainty prospectively, and one of the most important things for a young partner is to have the ability to do the work, but then make the call, to put down some bets. And one of the other failures we've seen in a partner is they can be re…”
David Sze Apr 19, 2021 ▶ 25:43 20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
Apr 19, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Sze: Bonding with Reid Hoffman in China led to LinkedIn investment
“We sat at the back of the bus each time on every stop on this tour through China, and we just mind melded. It was great. We got along so well. We were fast friends, and that led to the investment in LinkedIn and me inviting him to come to Greylock”
David Sze Apr 19, 2021 ▶ 38:18 20VC: Greylock's David Sze on His Biggest Lessons Working with Mark Zuckerberg and Reid Hoffman, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, How To Think Through Price Discipline Today and How Truly Strong Venture Partnerships Function
Apr 1, 2022 negative
Insight
Vivas: LinkedIn's Job Hierarchy Stifled Junior Employees' Correct Ideas
“One thing I observed when I worked at LinkedIn was if a director said something and an associate was in the room, the director was always right, But the associate often was the one who was right, but just because the more senior person was the one who said som…”
Eddie Vivas Apr 1, 2022 ▶ 28:34 20VC: The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make Hiring, The 2 Reasons Startups Fail and How to Avoid Them, Why Most Startup Equity Plans are F****** and Why You Should Scrap Titles From Your Company with Eddie Vivas, Founder & CEO @ Curated
May 18, 2022 positive
Opinion
Facebook, Pinterest, and LinkedIn are the premier tech growth talent pools
“In general, I think people at Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, a few other companies maybe, like, really do know growth. They know how to run these successive experiments. So all those companies, I think, have, like, really great growth culture where people have…”
Darius Contractor May 18, 2022 ▶ 29:32 20Growth: Five Signs of Top Growth Talent and How to Detect Them, How to Structure and Conduct the Most Efficient Customer Discovery Process & The Framework to Determine Your North Star and When To Change it with Darius Contractor, Former VP Growth @ Airt
Oct 3, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Conrad: Non-Rippling companies employ double the HR, IT, and finance staff
“At almost every stage of growth, you know, companies between zero to 25 employees, companies, you know, like between 500 and a thousand employees, they have almost double the number of people in HR, IT, and finance for companies that don't use Rippling than co…”
Parker Conrad Oct 3, 2022 ▶ 26:25 Parker Conrad: How I Got Ousted from Zenefits and Came Back with a Vengence | 20VC #932 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 9, 2023 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schuck: ZoomInfo sales reps currently have seven recruiting offers on LinkedIn
“Any of my salespeople have seven recruiting offers in their LinkedIn in mail today.”
Henry Schuck Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 36:21 ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 18, 2023 positive
Insight
Startups with network effects should hire growth talent earlier to engineer loops
“If your product has a social collaboration, network effect, that kind of thing, think about Slack, LinkedIn, right, or anything like, or Airtable, Figma, hiring for growth early on, a little bit earlier, will allow you to engineering those growth loops into th…”
Hila Qu Jan 18, 2023 ▶ 19:16 Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023
Insight
Cohen: B2B purchasing is highly emotional and stressful, not just feature-based
“When you buy a B to B product, it's actually a highly emotional, stressful job, because if you're going to buy a widget for a company, for your company, that's going to cost 50,000 dollars, a 100,000 dollars, a million dollars, and it's going to take months to…”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 12:35 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Cohen: LinkedIn is growing at its fastest pace in 20 years
“We're growing the fastest we ever grew right now.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 18:57 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cohen: 50% of early LinkedIn creators got commercial inquiries within a month
“We had a creator. It actually started with some early creators and we found that 50% of them in the span of a month after creating on LinkedIn, we're getting reached out to people saying, Hey, maybe you can do a session with my team, do a workshop on your craf…”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 14:12 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2028
Cohen: Job skill requirements will change by 50% in five years
“You look at it five years ahead, they're going to be 50% different.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 1:24:53 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Cohen: Gen Z and entry-level professionals are LinkedIn's fastest-growing demographic segment
“So for example, at LinkedIn, one of our fastest growing segments are Gen Z's and entry level professionals.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 54:09 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Tomer Cohen: Talent hiring has historically favored pedigree over measurable skills
“Talent marketplace has been built on pedigree and experience and not necessarily on the skillset you have, because that was not easy to measure.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 33:16 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cohen: LinkedIn Stories failed because users want permanent professional content
“When we did follow-up sessions with members after that, it was clear that we completely misunderstood the job to be done for creators on LinkedIn. It wasn't about wanting things to disappear. It was almost like the opposite. People wanted things to last on Lin…”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 28:00 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023
Assertion Supported
Cohen: LinkedIn has 900M members and 60M company profiles
“We have a consumer platform that caters to nine hundred million members, sixty million companies on LinkedIn, almost every job and skill in the world on LinkedIn, almost every piece of professional knowledge and information is on LinkedIn.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 1:31:52 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Tomer Cohen: LinkedIn's member base more than doubled over six years
“Our memo base more than doubled.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 18:48 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023
Insight
Cohen: Define success metrics before building, not retroactively post-launch
“I always like to start with before you launch, before you even start building, what is success? Like, you know, once you launch it, what should be going up into the rights that should be excited about? Don't tell me in retrospect because, you know, then you're…”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 31:23 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023
Insight
Cohen: Resolving team disagreements quickly requires a single designated decision-maker
“Whenever there is an escalation or a disagreement, we try to solve it really quickly with one person. It's a person on the team. It's always a person that has the decision On how to resolve the situation.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 42:00 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Cohen: LinkedIn's annual revenue more than tripled over six years
“Revenue for LinkedIn more than tripled.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 18:46 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cohen: LinkedIn intentionally curtailed record viral feed growth to prioritize quality
“We made a core decision to curtail growth even at the expense of engagement that we've never seen at LinkedIn growing at such record levels to make sure we go back to the drawing board and we focus on trust and quality.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 46:44 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Cohen: LinkedIn does not offer revenue sharing to content creators
“We don't do ref share. Your opportunity of LinkedIn is your voice. It's what you create. It's your reputation. It's your brand.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 14:40 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023 bullish
Assertion Supported
Cohen: LinkedIn's 'follow' feature is growing 200% year-over-year
“Actually, follows right now is one of the most impressive growth trajectories at LinkedIn. It's growing at 200% year over year.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 24:16 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Cohen: Job skill requirements changed 25% over five years
“If you look at the skill set you needed for a job today versus five years ago, that has changed by 25%.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 1:24:39 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cohen: LinkedIn uses a 'brief back' process after product reviews
“We have a new process we started a while back, which is called brief back. The team itself, which presented, they send a summary of the session with the feedback and all the key action items they have and the ETAs for the key areas they're going to work on.”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 40:22 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 27, 2023 negative
What-if
Rabois: LinkedIn should have been more valuable than Facebook
“LinkedIn by any measure was Yeah, pretty successful. Certainly impact, you know, acquisition, twenty four billion or so. Truthfully, probably hit somewhere between five and 20% of its, you know, potential because it didn't do some of these things. Like, I, in …”
Keith Rabois Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 34:56 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 27, 2023 negative
Opinion
Rabois: LinkedIn developed a mediocre culture because early engineers wanted 35-hour weeks
“Yeah, we didn't have an Olympic work ethic. We had a bunch of French engineers that wanted to work 35 hours a week. At the time, In 2003 to five, when the company was really founded, most people thought the internet was dead, so we didn't, Reid Hoffman, who fo…”
Keith Rabois Nov 27, 2023 ▶ 35:20 Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Cohen: Global job skillsets will change by at least 65% by 2030
“By twenty-thirty, they're going to change by at least 65%.”
Tomer Cohen Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 45:23 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023
Insight
Cohen: AI-first product design requires relinquishing control over user experience
“When you think in an AI first principle kind of way, You're really unleashing the idea of control. What happens basically in AI is you don't control the experience anymore.”
Tomer Cohen Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 0:22 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023
Assertion Supported
Cohen: Job skillsets changed by 25% over the past five years
“The skillset necessary to do a job changed by 25% in the last five to six years.”
Tomer Cohen Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 45:13 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cohen: LinkedIn will not hire product leaders lacking AI willingness and aptitude
“I would not hire you to my org if you're, if you don't have the willingness and the aptitude to go deep.”
Tomer Cohen Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 53:46 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023 neutral
Insight
Cohen: A product leader's primary job is defining algorithm objectives
“My opinion as a product leader or a designer or an engineer or a product manager, like data is literally at your second most important job in your role. It's understanding how do you basically start to infuse all of data collection and make sure it's high qual…”
Tomer Cohen Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 30:54 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cohen: LinkedIn is using LLMs to create interfaces that morph to users
“One thing that we're already underway for us is to really take away the complexity and solve it with the idea of bringing in more of this new large language models, and in general, this new brain that can exceed on top of it. So instead of adding more features…”
Tomer Cohen Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 52:07 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 20, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cohen: Massive startup innovation will emerge in AI model routing tiers
“If I think of like why I would expect to see some massive innovation and startups to show up, it's in this tier to really allow people to leverage multiple models at multiple call centers and resources and efficiencies, and then completely mask it from the dev…”
Tomer Cohen Dec 20, 2023 ▶ 11:55 Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gonto: Early growth at Slack and LinkedIn was not driven by growth loop frameworks
“When you go to the leaders in Slack and LinkedIn at those times, they will tell you they will not, they were not implementing growth loops. They didn't know what a growth loop was. They were trying to find creative ways to get other users and other people to c…”
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 57:29 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 1, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Quattrone: Salesforce submitted higher unsolicited bids during LinkedIn's exclusivity window with Microsoft
“So they went into like a 30 day exclusivity to try to get to definitive agreement. And during that period, Salesforce lobbed in Several offers that were higher. And that meant that towards the end of that period, we had to inform Microsoft, Hey, your deal is n…”
Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 35:04 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 1, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Quattrone: Microsoft and Salesforce submitted nearly identical bids at every stage for LinkedIn
“With LinkedIn, we had interest from several parties, but it really kind of came down to Microsoft and Salesforce. And I've never seen companies bid privately and come up with such close prices on every stage Like, 151 151 162 163. It was very, very close, and …”
Frank Quattrone Mar 1, 2024 ▶ 33:36 Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 24, 2024
Disclosure
Zaparde: Zip Acquired Its First 10 Customers Exclusively Via Cold LinkedIn Outreach
“We decided, Hey, we don't want to like, look at the end of the day, if we pick an idea, we're going to work on it more than anybody else. Like we don't want to waste our own time. So what we're going to do is this. We're gonna make sure that the first 10 custo…”
Rujul Zaparde Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 16:50 Rujul Zaparde: Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | E1144 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 10, 2024 neutral
Insight
TikTok Is Content Distribution, Not an Explicit Social Graph
“Now, it's a social network, you know, as much as there's people, there's individuals who are creating stuff that's being consumed by other individuals, but it's not a social network in that, you know, I'm connected to my friend Harry, you know, on LinkedIn.”
Reid Hoffman Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 1:25:16 Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 10, 2024
Insight
All Hyper-Growth Startups Are Chaotic Hot Messes
“Having done this at PayPal, having done this at LinkedIn, having done this at Airbnb, having done, like all of this stuff, it's always a chaotic hot mess.”
Reid Hoffman Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 36:21 Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 17, 2024
Disclosure
Index Ventures missed investing in Spotify, Snap, Airbnb, and LinkedIn
“One is Spotify, another one is Snap, another one's Airbnb, another one's LinkedIn. Those are the four that we had real opportunity in some fashion or another to manufacture the opportunity for Index to be in the round, and we failed for different reasons.”
Danny Rimer Jun 17, 2024 ▶ 10:39 Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 23, 2024 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cold email and LinkedIn sales outbound no longer work
“Like what I'm being told, and again, I don't do it, but the feedback I get is emails, LinkedIn simply doesn't work. It just, it, there's too much of it.”
Chad Peets Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 50:25 Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 13, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moubeche: Can draft 15 to 20 LinkedIn posts per hour
“Whenever I'm writing like a LinkedIn post, I can write maybe like I don't know, 15 or 20 posts in an hour.”
Guillaume Moubeche Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 43:52 Guillaume Moubeche, lempire Founder: Bootsrapping to $30M ARR Through Content & Brand | E1238 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 13, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Moubeche: Lempire reaches 10M LinkedIn users quarterly organically
“Right now, like, just to give you an example, we reach about like, ten million people every quarter on LinkedIn without spending a single dollar on ads, just through like our networks. And that's like That's like millions of dollars in revenue every year.”
Guillaume Moubeche Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 52:04 Guillaume Moubeche, lempire Founder: Bootsrapping to $30M ARR Through Content & Brand | E1238 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 26, 2025
Disclosure
Jack Zhang personally sourced Airwallex's first 100 employees on LinkedIn
“I hired the first a hundred people in Airworks by myself on LinkedIn.”
Jack Zhang May 26, 2025 ▶ 1:26:41 Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 25, 2025 negative
Insight
Jason Lemkin: LPs bragging on LinkedIn signals peak market froth
“The frothiest sign is now LinkedIn LPs are bragging about their returns on LinkedIn LPs. When LPs are start bragging about their returns to me that that's the most, 20, 21 moment I've seen when LPs are LPs who are usually hide behind the wizard of Oz curtain a…”
Jason Lemkin Sep 25, 2025 ▶ 21:57 The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 11, 2026 bullish
Insight
Harries: Organic LinkedIn is today's most underappreciated tech growth channel
“The most underappreciated growth channel I see is organic LinkedIn. On Twitter, you're competing against the best writers in the world. You're competing against Harry Stebbings running shorts. Yeah, Bill Ackman. Like, it's really tough. On LinkedIn, you're com…”
Luke Harries Jan 11, 2026 ▶ 1:01:26 20Growth: The $6.6B Growth Engine Behind ElevenLabs | Why ElevenLabs Do Not Have PMs | The 7 Part Launch Playbook to Crush All Launches with Luke Harries, Head of Growth @ ElevenLabs
Jan 24, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stebbings: A Single LinkedIn Post Generated $4M in Revenue for Fixer
“I posted about them on LinkedIn, and they got four million in revenue from one LinkedIn post.”
Harry Stebbings Jan 24, 2026 ▶ 17:34 20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
Jan 31, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Omer Shai says LinkedIn and TikTok present enormous marketing arbitrage opportunities
“Also LinkedIn. I think LinkedIn potential is enormous. The arbitrage, again, is there. The targeting is not perfect as an other solution yet, but I believe that those two are having tons of opportunity for us.”
Omer Shai Jan 31, 2026 ▶ 32:59 20Growth: How Wix Built a $100M Marketing Machine | Why LTV is BS and Why Time Return On Investment is the Most Important Metric | How to 10x Your Growth: What is the Next Great Channel with Omer Shai, CMO @ Wix
Mar 14, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Verna: Former large tech employers penalized her for LinkedIn activity
“I have a reasonable LinkedIn following and I've been penalized for it in the larger companies. Like they were like, absolutely no, don't post. Delete the post. This is not good. I, we want to we want to prove anything that you post on social.”
Elena Verna Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 15:04 Elena Verna: How Lovable Launches Product & Hacks Social to Go Viral · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 9, 2026 negative
Insight
Lemkin: Bringing in external executives during corporate turmoil fails 70% of the time
“In my experience, I don't know what you guys think. In my experience, that has about a 30% chance of success. Just roughly. That bringing in the big, the perfect LinkedIn, giving them a massive portfolio and either attaching them to, and attaching to this some…”
Jason Lemkin Apr 9, 2026 ▶ 13:56 OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 2, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stebbings: 90% of target CEOs respond to his LinkedIn messages
“One of our portfolio companies, the CRO, comes in every month, and gives me, like, the top 10 targets, and I just go with them to the CEOs on LinkedIn. I have a blue check mark and lots of followers on LinkedIn. Challenge shit on LinkedIn. Nine out of 10 respo…”
Harry Stebbings May 2, 2026 ▶ 55:36 Inside Clay's Sales Playbook | Becca Lindquist · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 7, 2026 negative
Opinion
Lemkin: Fire employees who brag about team size on LinkedIn
“Anyone on LinkedIn that talks about their team, fire them. My team this. They're all so precious about their team. Lead from the effin' front with AI.”
Jason Lemkin May 7, 2026 ▶ 0:44 Anthropic's Raise & What It Means for Potential IPO? Mag7: Google & Amazon Up, Meta & Microsoft Down · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 10, 2026 negative
Insight
O'Driscoll: No scaled business is built on scraping LinkedIn or Google
“The LinkedIn scraping in the end, no business at scale ever gets built on that, and no business at scale ever gets built on breaking Google's terms of service.”
Rory O'Driscoll Sep 10, 2026 ▶ 2:54 Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
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