LinkedIn, every mention
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every year 2020 anyone Harry Stebbings 237Tomer Cohen 91Luke Harries 31Jason Lemkin 31Becca Lindquist 15Reid Hoffman 10Keith Rabois 9Emilie Choi 9Jeremy Levine 8Guillaume Moubeche 8
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where LinkedIn comes up
20VC: Why the Theory of Pro-Rata is Often False, How Rolling Funds Impact Both Pricing and Competition & The Biggest Lessons from Working with Jack Dorsey with Avlok Kohli, CEO @ AngelList Venture
- ▶ 25:42 Avlok Kohli And even if you want to go reach out to this person, you have to then sit down, look at your network, maybe look at your LinkedIn and go, who do I know here, here, here.
20VC: Figma Founder, Dylan Field on How Leadership Needs To Evolve with Scale, The Transition from Application to Platform & The Future of Remote Work, Education and Digital Spaces
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings Prior to founding Figma, though, Dylan also enjoyed internships at Flipboard, LinkedIn, and O'Reilly Media.
- ▶ 3:59 Dylan Field Got to work as an intern at LinkedIn on the data science team there, and that was actually one of my first real exposures to design. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Hopin, The Breakout Startup of 2020 on Scaling from 10 to 230 People and $174M in Funding in just 13 Months, The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, How To Lead Remote Teams Effectively, The Future of Events Post-COVID and more
- ▶ 3:30 Johnny Boufarhat I was even doing LinkedIn reach outs. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings As an operator, Reid co-founded LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network, and before LinkedIn, Reid served as an executive vice president at PayPal, where he was a founding board member. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:42 Harry Stebbings But I'm so excited to dive in, and so now, without further ado, I'm handing over to Reid Hoffman, co-founder at LinkedIn and partner at Greylock.
- ▶ 7:03 Reid Hoffman And the paradox is the same thing about entrepreneurship, which is, like, it was only, like, years into starting LinkedIn that I started realizing, oh, yeah, entrepreneur is the word that applies to me, and a word applies to the things…
- ▶ 23:25 Reid Hoffman He was my most valuable member, a board member at LinkedIn. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:28 Reid Hoffman Also spending, you know, tens of hours a week on LinkedIn at that time.
20VC: The 4 Phases of Effective Decision-Making, The No 1 Quality of Good Decisions, How To Approach Effective OKR Setting, & How To Optimise and Improve Your Operating Cadence with Shishir Mehrotra, Founder & CEO @ Coda
- ▶ 39:29 Shishir Mehrotra Remember at this time, it was like, there's no LinkedIn, no way to really know who Bill Campbell is.
20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Care Less About Firm Brand at Seed, How LPs Should Think About GP Commit & How The World of LPs and Fundraising Will Change Post COVID with Apurva Mehta, Managing Partner @ Summit Peak Investments
- ▶ 7:17 Apurva Mehta We know a portfolio, we might know what legacy investments look like, and we use this little used tool called LinkedIn and connect to founders, and I don't know, people seem to be openly willing to chat about their experience, and we hold…
20VC: Andrew Wilkinson on Building The Berkshire Hathway of Tech, Sustainable vs Unsustainable Growth and The Relationship Between Money and Freedom
- ▶ 18:51 Harry Stebbings We'll see the bundling into Facebook groups, LinkedIn groups, whatever, incorporate into the main platforms. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Substack Founder Chris Best on The Future of Public Journalism, Why The Economics Of Attention Have Been Flipped & Why Micropayments For Content Will Not Work
- ▶ 22:27 Harry Stebbings The trusty LinkedIn.
20VC: Sarah Kunst on Why There Is Plenty Of Investor Money Still Available, The Megan Markle Effect and How It Impacts Hiring and Talent & Whether GP Commits Prevent Diversity and Inclusion
- ▶ 26:15 Sarah Kunst Slide into somebody's DMs on Twitter or on LinkedIn or Instagram and say,
20VC: Framework For Hiring The Best Talent 100% Remotely, Raising $32M From Benchmark and GV Pre-Launch and How To Think Through Capital Efficiency and Runway Today with Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, Co-Founders @ Digits
- ▶ 1:45 Harry Stebbings Two, you submit your LinkedIn profile or resume, and that's it.
- ▶ 35:43 Harry Stebbings Two, you submit your LinkedIn profile or resume, and that's it.
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How 1-1 Customer Onboarding Can Scale Efficiently to $100M ARR, Why Gamification Does Not Work But Game Design Does & What Game Design Means For The Next Generation Of Product Managers
- ▶ 0:43 Harry Stebbings And prior to founding Superhuman, Rahul was the founder at Reportive, a company later acquired by LinkedIn in 2014.
- ▶ 3:49 Rahul Vohra And we grew rapidly, and in those two years, we were shortly afterwards acquired by LinkedIn.
20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability
- ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings Prior to joining Notion, Akshay spent five years at LinkedIn following his prior company, Pulse News, being acquired by LinkedIn in 2013. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:33 Akshay Kothari So a couple years later, when we sold Pulse to LinkedIn in 2013, I had this newfound money that I didn't know what to do.
- ▶ 14:44 Akshay Kothari But what that's doing to the work environment, and I faced this when I was at LinkedIn, is just to do the basic work, I would have to touch 20 pieces of software.
20VC: Why Venture Fund Life Cycles Do Not Align To Companies Today, Actionable Strategies To Separate Good From Great When Assessing and Hiring Multiple Candidates & Why We Need More Adventure in Venture Capital with Blake Scholl, Founder & CEO @ Boom Sup
- ▶ 1:53 Harry Stebbings Two, you submit your LinkedIn profile or resume, and that's it.
- ▶ 30:42 Harry Stebbings Two, you submit your LinkedIn profile or resume, and that's it.
20VC: The Framework to Scale A Team From 20 to 190 in 24 Months, How To Structure The Perfect Investor Updates & How To Create A Culture of Distributed Ownership with Radical Transparency with Jean-Charles Samulian, Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan
- ▶ 1:48 Harry Stebbings Two, you submit your LinkedIn profile or resume, and that's it.
- ▶ 36:54 Harry Stebbings Two, you submit your LinkedIn profile or resume,
20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- ▶ 7:58 Vinod Khosla Hundreds, literally, that I've sorted through personally, looked around on LinkedIn, interviewed these people.