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20VC: ElevenLabs Head of Growth on Why You Do Not Need PMs | The 7-Part Launch Playbook That Gets 700K+ Views Per Product | The Truth About CAC, Payback & Performance Marketing in AI with Luke Harries
- ▶ 1:02:28 Luke Harries The most underappreciated growth channel I see is organic LinkedIn. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:52 Luke Harries LinkedIn ads, if you're doing organic LinkedIn, if you're doing a blog post, a tweet thread, if you're doing copy for your landing pages, get great at copy, as that's the foundation for all other growth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:34 Harry Stebbings And so I found the founder on LinkedIn and
Duolingo Co-Founder, Severin Hacker: How AI Impacts the Future of Work and Education · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:44 Severin Hacker You, um, you know, successfully finished this, this, uh, this course and you can put this on your, on your LinkedIn or resume and, and then an employer can say,
OpenAI, SBF & Perplexity: What VCs Know That You Don’t · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:58 Jason Lemkin And LinkedIn, the average across their SMBs is 20%.
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:16 Jason Lemkin This is, you go on LinkedIn
20Sales: Sierra: Inside Silicon Valley's Fastest Growing Sales Machine & How to Prospect, Outbound and Close Enterprise Deals in AI
- ▶ 2:25 Harry Stebbings That's why go-to-market teams at LinkedIn, Snowflake, ADP, NASDAQ, Shopify, such incredible companies, and thousands others trust Gong.
- ▶ 14:31 Harry Stebbings So you were like cold message on LinkedIn? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:47 Harry Stebbings That's why go-to-market teams at LinkedIn, Snowflake, ADP, NASDAQ, Shopify, such incredible companies, and thousands others trust Gong.
20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox
- ▶ 3:09 Harry Stebbings That's why go-to-market teams at LinkedIn, Snowflake, ADP, NASDAQ, Shopify,
- ▶ 34:35 Ishan Mukherjee So emails, LinkedIn, meeting them in person, getting on plane, as Jason says.
- ▶ 37:47 Harry Stebbings I find the most compelling moments are actually personal posts on LinkedIn.
- ▶ 45:12 Ishan Mukherjee Having said that, the data providers, they provide a kind of source of value where they have 10 to 15 years of back-tested data of human kind of gathered kind of contact information, LinkedIn information, that they've been verifying… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:54 Harry Stebbings That's why go-to-market teams at LinkedIn, Snowflake, ADP, NASDAQ, Shopify, such incredible companies, and thousands others trust Gong.
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 33:40 unnamed speaker I mean, you all know my last company, Refresh, was acquired by LinkedIn because we were using a lot of data from LinkedIn and Facebook and these sorts of deep web databases, right? 2 times in the scene
Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:16 Elias Torres They're going to have, uh, ability to work with my companies, they're going to have my network, they have my access, they have my money, and sometimes I wrote a post on LinkedIn when I said, quit now, you're a company, big company, it's…
- ▶ 41:42 Harry Stebbings So, so one of the things I hate when I look at CV's slash LinkedIn's is bounce, as I call them, which is like two years drift, two years HubSpot, two years, two years, two years.
Yamini Rangan, CEO @ HubSpot: How HubSpot Competes Against Salesforce · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:27 Yamini Rangan I'll tell you, I, uh, use it to write, you know, my LinkedIn post.
- ▶ 47:52 Yamini Rangan On YouTube, they're on Instagram, they're on, you know, other, you know, TikTok, and they're on LinkedIn, and you need to be where your customers are, not just expect them to come to where you are, which is your digital, you know,…
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:01 Jake Saper I think in our experience, we invested in a company called Doximity, which is like started as LinkedIn for doctors. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:50 Harry Stebbings Do I, can I put founder on my LinkedIn?
Julian Teixeira, CRO @ 1Password: How to Hire and Train Your First Sales Hires · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:13 Julian Teixeira Um, you're, you're going to try different approaches to reaching out, whether that's on, on LinkedIn or via email.
Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:37 Solly Solomou And in fairness, it wasn't too accessible to speak to them, and I remember going across LinkedIn, like, messaging all sorts of different people.
Carlos Delatorre, CRO @Harness: Why Every Sales Rep Should Do Pipeline Generation | E1251 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:31 Harry Stebbings I think you are always underestimating the familiarity of naming, and what I mean by that is, you post 10 times a month on LinkedIn, me responding to five of them, go Carlos, so awesome to see.
- ▶ 28:07 Carlos Delatorre Let me identify 25 human beings in that account that based on their title, based on their LinkedIn profile, I think are relevant to what I sell. 2 times in the scene
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:01 George Sivulka And they released an archive paper, and everyone on LinkedIn was like, wow, Bloomberg is, you know, cutting edge, and they're gonna steal finance AI.
Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:49 Hussein Kanji I, I reached out to the person who wrote the LinkedIn post multiple times to grab coffee. 2 times in the scene
Matt Plank, Rippling's CRO: How to Build an Enterprise Sales Machine | E1241 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:09 Matt Plank Like they're either engagement bathing, you know, looking for a reaction on LinkedIn or whatever, uh, that they know that there's a whole army of people out there where that's their profession and they're trying to kind of create, you…
- ▶ 10:23 Matt Plank Who's on our website, who's on our review sites, uh, who just recently changed the job on LinkedIn.
- ▶ 50:25 Matt Plank You can go put money in the LinkedIn machine or the Facebook machine or the review sites or whatever, and you can get demos, but like you don't have all of the like easier, more free stuff to like blend the portfolio into something that…
Guillaume Moubeche, lempire Founder: Bootsrapping to $30M ARR Through Content & Brand | E1238 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:49 Guillaume Moubeche Um, let's say I want to write like a LinkedIn post. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:51 Guillaume Moubeche So when something works well, I usually like even my LinkedIn posts, sometimes I, I take the same post and I just rewrite it and again, and again, and again, and again, and I'm going to post it multiple times and every time it's going to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:04 Guillaume Moubeche Because while they are building like their brands, uh, they bring also a lot of like positive, um, you know, like a lot of leads to the business, uh, right now, like, just to give you an example, we reach about like, ten million people… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:17 Guillaume Moubeche That you're going to post, uh, one video per day, or that you're going to post, uh, one LinkedIn post per day, but you can't control, uh, the outcome, meaning like how many followers you're going to get, how many like views you're going to… 2 times in the scene
Torsten Reil, Helsing Founder: Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | E1237 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:31 Torsten Reil To get those people into the company, we, we hustle like crazy, whether it's on LinkedIn, whether it's through network, and we, I mean, we won't give up until we, we get the person that we want.
- ▶ 1:03:31 Torsten Reil I mean, there's a, you know, there's like, there's a whole LinkedIn, um, economy built around just complaining, same is true on X, and just commenting, and, and, like, those comments are, well, they're worth nothing.
- ▶ 1:10:34 Torsten Reil It's just, it's just one of the many things that LinkedIn screwed up. 2 times in the scene
Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:45 Harry Stebbings The man does not even have LinkedIn.
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:26 Dan Fougere People call it these days, my outbound calling, emailing, LinkedIn, GitHub, whatever.
Raman Malik: Inside Perplexity’s Growth Machine: What Worked, What Did Not Work | E1226 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:50 Harry Stebbings LinkedIn, Xfinity, Lenny's podcast, all give away a year.
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:47 AJ Tennant I learned this from David Han, who is a VP of product at LinkedIn.
- ▶ 1:05:12 AJ Tennant I was thinking about it because I was looking at obviously your LinkedIn followers, your Twitter followers, like, I, I, my organization now is like, 230 people.
Jeetu Mahtani, Sales Leader @Hubspot: How and When to Go International and Crush It | E1207 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:59 Jeetu Mahtani You know, your presence on LinkedIn. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:59 Harry Stebbings The cold outbound, the cold email, cold LinkedIn.
Akshay Kothari: How Notion Has More Money Than Ever & Why Startup Fundraising is Broken | E1203 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:16 Akshay Kothari I also think, like, you know, some of the investors I know, someone I really respect is, um, Jeff Wiener, who was my old boss at LinkedIn.
Scott Gorlick: How Uber Acquired 1M Drivers & The Uber’s Expansion Playbook | E1196 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:32 Scott Gorlick And, uh, you know, I think one of the things they've done recently that's really interesting is they're offering a free pro membership, um, to anybody with a LinkedIn premium account or an Uber one membership.
Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:25 Chad Peets Like what, what I'm being told, and again, I don't do it, but, but the feedback I get is emails, LinkedIn simply doesn't work.
Samir Vasavada: The Real Story of Vise: The Regrets, Mistakes and Mis-Hires | E1171 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:15 Samir Vasavada So, you know, outside of us doing it ourselves, we found a team of engineers, um, mostly just through scraping AngelList and cold emailing people and reaching out to people on LinkedIn. 2 times in the scene
Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:54 Val Scholz Um, you can target these people on LinkedIn, and then essentially it's just, you basically message everyone that basically fits that criteria.
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:39 Danny Rimer One is Spotify, another one is Snap, another one's Airbnb, another one's LinkedIn.
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:49 Reid Hoffman Well, you know, LinkedIn is working its way towards being a higher and higher source of, yes, if, if it's there, it's got a very high likelihood of being accurate.
- ▶ 21:19 unnamed speaker That's why I thought LinkedIn was such an interesting topic though, because actually it's the most extensive structured data source probably on the planet in terms of professional network.
- ▶ 36:25 Reid Hoffman You know, at PayPal, having done this at LinkedIn, having done this at Airbnb, having done, like, like all of this stuff, it's always a chaotic hot mess.
- ▶ 1:11:49 Reid Hoffman I've, uh, he's worked for me twice, once at PayPal, once at LinkedIn, um, and, um, you know, I, I provided him his instrumental reference for working at Square and, you know, a sack of other things, and so, um, I called Keith because he,…
- ▶ 1:24:38 Reid Hoffman Because the way that social networks like LinkedIn and others made this happen is through, I have a graph. 3 times in the scene
Ashley Kelly: The Playbook to Start and Scale Your SDR Team | E1162 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:03 Ashley Kelly And so I think AI can actually help just make that easier and free up more of an SDR's time to where they can focus on more personalization and LinkedIn connects and all the different channels, um, that really require a human outside of AI.
- ▶ 33:26 Ashley Kelly So here are the different systems and tools that we use, which is like sales navigators, zoom info, all that fun stuff.
- ▶ 43:24 Ashley Kelly Um, LinkedIn ads, making sure that marketing.
Matt Lerner: How to Hire Growth Leaders and Teams and Why in a World of AI | E1159 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:32 Matt Lerner Sales, outbound, like how many email, you know, sales emails do you get in LinkedIn messages and how many of them do you ignore?
- ▶ 45:30 Matt Lerner LinkedIn, actually. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:18 Harry Stebbings What have been some lessons in the LinkedIn building? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:12 Matt Lerner So for me, because I'm, I love writing, and I write emails and LinkedIn posts, I'm used to writing on short form, and then turning that into a full book, I completely underestimated the magnitude.
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:08 Jason Lemkin oh, you want to talk to Dell and Comcast and LinkedIn again, the third guy that then doesn't invest.
- ▶ 51:35 Jason Lemkin And I just remember, I know I've done it in a while, but when things were really crappy in the 2016 downturn, I might be getting my timing off, and LinkedIn panicked and sold to Microsoft cheap, right?
Keith Rabois & Eric Glyman: The Tools, Tips, Secrets and Process That Drive Efficiency | E1148 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:46 Keith Rabois Um, we spent literally the first board meeting probably reviewing LinkedIn profiles for
Rujul Zaparde: Why Hiring Inexperienced People is Better | E1144 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:00 Rujul Zaparde We're gonna make sure that the first 10 customers we close, we're gonna close in cold off of LinkedIn.
Daniel Dines: From a Dollar a Day to Romania's Richest Man| Happiness, Wealth, Risk and more | E1143 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15:39 Daniel Dines It was very difficult, but, um, an hour, one of our, I think the second biggest competitor of ours at the time, behave very nasty, so they were celebrating, they send messages on LinkedIn, this is what's happened, this, this company is…
Girish Mathrubootham (HINDI): Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:26 Girish Mathrubootham जो कॉपा के CMO है, ने हाल ही में एक LinkedIn पोस्ट लिखी है, जो यहां काम आ सकती है, और उसमें उसने कहा कि, जब आप नौकरी बदल रहे होते हैं, तो आपकी सोच अपने साथ ले जा सकते हैं, लेकिन प्लेबुक नहीं, तो बुनियादी तोर पर आइस अपनी सोच और वैल्य�
Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:24 Girish Mathrubootham One, I think, um, one of my friends, uh, Chandar, who's the CMO of Koopa, uh, wrote a LinkedIn post recently, which is very relevant here.
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:12 Frank Quattrone But you remember during the time of Facebook and LinkedIn, these companies would be waiting until, um, there were several billion dollars of revenue before they would go public.
- ▶ 33:36 Frank Quattrone And so, um, with LinkedIn, we, um, we had interest from several parties, but it really kind of came down to Microsoft and Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:35 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) So what we ended up doing is I started to contact a lot of those people by sending them a message on LinkedIn or Twitter and like, Hey, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:24 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) Zillow implemented growth loops, that LinkedIn implemented growth loops, that Slack implemented growth loops. 2 times in the scene
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:23:06 Harry Stebbings You saw it before when we posted on LinkedIn.
David Tisch & Terrence Rohan: Biggest Misconceptions & Hardest Truths About Seed Investing | E1112 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:35:25 Terrence Rohan Maybe you could apply, but sure, you apply, they take a look at your Twitter, your LinkedIn, what you did, where you did, and they spit out a score and you get 500 K or not.
Will Wu: Top Five Product Lessons from Creating Snapchat "Discover" and "Chat" | E1111 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:33 Harry Stebbings Yeah, nine years and two months, according to LinkedIn.
Dave Ripley: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Down? | E1108 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:19 Harry Stebbings Uh, can I ask you, you were COO then, I think for, you know, six and a half years, or whatever it was, according to the trusty LinkedIn, and then take over the reins as CEO,
Zaria Parvez: How Duolingo Scaled to 8M TikTok Followers & How to Create Viral Content | E1105 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:12 Harry Stebbings Like no, you should probably just be on one and be really good at LinkedIn, but like everyone can learn a language.
- ▶ 54:26 Harry Stebbings Are you seeing LinkedIn just, like, spike in terms of engagement? 5 times in the scene
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:19 Brian Halligan So once they make the investment, they invite the leadership team to come just meet everyone in the Sequoia community, all the right people at LinkedIn and Google it, you name it.
- ▶ 1:03:13 Brian Halligan So they have an unfair advantage in that they did LinkedIn, they did Apple, they did all these companies.
Keith Rabois on Rejoining Khosla Ventures | E1102 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:53 Keith Rabois Sunday for me used to be, when I was operating executive at, let's say, Square or LinkedIn, Sunday would be the day that I would kind of do brainstorming and strategy,
Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:03 Harry Stebbings I talked with the heads of product from Adobe, LinkedIn, and Spotify, and we covered everything from LLM predictions in 2024 to how product teams should adopt AI.
- ▶ 1:45 Tomer Cohen Uh, chief product officer for LinkedIn, uh, responsible for basically what we build from the company's strategy to overseeing the teams building it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:50 Tomer Cohen I think at LinkedIn I've been holding that flag around like there's the mobile first movement and there's the AI first movement.
- ▶ 13:38 Tomer Cohen Like I take a complication like LinkedIn.
- ▶ 18:04 Harry Stebbings I was going to ask you, each of you have incredible amounts of data, you know, LinkedIn, Adobe, Spotify, insane amounts of user data.
- ▶ 29:22 Tomer Cohen But what we do best is understanding how it works for LinkedIn. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:51 Tomer Cohen We were basically tracking very closely at LinkedIn, like just looking at talent overall for the world.
- ▶ 51:00 Harry Stebbings Toma, uh, tell me, if you could change one thing about the LinkedIn product today, what would you change that you haven't already? 2 times in the scene
Davis Smith: From Selling $6M of Pool Tables to Scaling Cotopaxi to $150M in Revenues | E1095 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:28 Davis Smith So I went on LinkedIn, you know, I was in Brazil at the time. 3 times in the scene
Sam Corcos: Why Founders Should Take as Many VC Meetings as Possible | E1093 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:24 Harry Stebbings I find that when it comes to like sales pipeline in particular, share a Google sheet with the companies that you want to speak to, the specific person within the company, hyperlink, hyperlink their LinkedIn. 2 times in the scene
Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:44 Guillaume Cabane Really crazy attribution logic, where we found engineers across jobs by, and that's the unique lesson, keying not on the link, not on the email, because the email changes, domain changes, not on the name, that's not relevant, on the… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:36 Harry Stebbings This is so much better than LinkedIn's posting. 3 times in the scene
Keith Rabois & Mike Shebat: Creating an Olympian Mindset to Work Ethic| E1087 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01 Keith Rabois Companies like PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, co-founded a company called Opendoor, and as a side project, um, also CEO of up into a 30 person company based in Miami.
- ▶ 34:56 Keith Rabois I LinkedIn by any measure was 4 times in the scene
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:00 Des Traynor And it does that across Google and LinkedIn
- ▶ 49:33 Des Traynor Like, I mean, I feel like that's, that feels to me feels like it's like up there with LinkedIn and one of those just like bastions of the old internet.
Chris Degnan: Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Sooner Than You Think | E1080 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:06 Chris Degnan I send emails on LinkedIn.