LinkedIn, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where LinkedIn comes up
20 Sales: When To Hire Your Head of Sales/ First Reps, What To Look for in 10x Sales Candidates, How To Structure The Hiring Process, How To Onboard New Reps Efficiently, How To Set First Quotas and more with Kyle Parrish, Figma's VP Sales
- ▶ 24:41 Kyle Parrish And she'd only worked in large companies for the most part, came from LinkedIn sales machine.
20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu
- ▶ 12:35 Andy Johns So if I'm building another network-driven product, I'm going to look for the heads of growth at Pinterest and at Reddit and at Quora and at Twitter and at Facebook and at LinkedIn.
20VC: The Two Largest Changes in the Investing Market Today, Why The Scarce Resource in Venture is Access & Why Investors Are Acting Mostly Rational and Upside Scenario Planning Needs To Change with Anton Levy, Co-President @ General Atlantic
- ▶ 33:35 Anton Levy And, you know, that's what comes across, I think, from entrepreneurs because in a LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok world where everybody's one degree of separation from someone else, all the best companies in the world can raise money…
20VC: The Opendoor Memo: Keith Rabois on The Origins of Opendoor from a Conversation with Peter Thiel, Why Cash is Not a Competitive Moat for Startups Today and What People Misunderstand About Black Swan Events in Real Estate and How it Impacts Opendoor
- ▶ 0:50 Harry Stebbings Keith joined LinkedIn, Slide, and Square when they had no revenue.
20VC: Coinbase President & COO Emilie Choi on Building Coinbase Ventures into One of the Best Performing Funds with 0 Employees, How Coinbase Thinks Through Internal Resource Allocation and Prioritisation & Why, When and How To Hire Your COO and Head of C
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings A little on Emily before we jump in, and before Coinbase, Emily was head of corporate development at LinkedIn, and before LinkedIn, served in various positions at Warner Brothers, including as manager of corporate business, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:03 Harry Stebbings You're at LinkedIn, and then Brian DeAngelo, how did that happen? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:31 Harry Stebbings Can I ask you, I am going to touch on kind of the learnings from LinkedIn.
- ▶ 6:32 Harry Stebbings I do want to ask that because, you know, I spoke to one of your board members at Coinbase, Gokul Rajaram, and he said, you've got to ask Emily, what lessons did you learn from Jeff and Reid at LinkedIn that you've put into effect at… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:25 Emilie Choi She came to talk to us once at LinkedIn, and she was talking about how she was trying to think about how she got her message to the Apple employees when she first came, and she felt all this pressure.
- ▶ 11:14 Emilie Choi And I was very wary of this when I got reach outs from LinkedIn after, you know, when I was leaving, I pressure tested this with Brian.
- ▶ 24:45 Emilie Choi I remember even at LinkedIn, when I came there and like, you know, Jeff obviously knew what a head of corp dev was, but most of the company didn't know at the time.
- ▶ 27:24 Emilie Choi It's very different from LinkedIn in that sense, or Coinbase has a portfolio of different products, and 70% of our resources are devoted to core, 20% are devoted to adjacencies, and 10% are devoted to venture bets, right?
20VC: Optimising Investment Decision-Making in Compressed Fundraising Timelines & A Deep Dive on Portfolio Construction, Price Sensitivity and The Importance of Ownership with Mark Mullen, Co-Founder @ Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 32:30 Mark Mullen So this is text, email, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Signal, the phone, my family, my in-laws.
20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
- ▶ 4:59 Peter Reinhardt People were reaching out to us on LinkedIn, demanding access to a beta version of a hosted open source library, which didn't exist, but we were pitching.
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
- ▶ 0:12 Harry Stebbings It's been an incredibly successful start to the year for this individual, with his investment in Roblox going public, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome David Zee, general partner at Greylock, where he's led some of the firm's most…
- ▶ 7:10 Harry Stebbings When I spoke to your partners, they said, especially when it came to like the Facebook and the LinkedIn ambassador, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:41 David Sze I mean, the reality of these things is everyone looks back and say they were immediate successes, but LinkedIn was eight to 10 years to going public.
- ▶ 20:18 Harry Stebbings I think it's an important point to touch on, especially when we kind of translate it to board environments where, bluntly, you did David Zim, you did Facebook, you did LinkedIn, you did Roblox, you did Discord, you did Next.
- ▶ 25:37 David Sze How quaint and early and odd LinkedIn was, the memo was, or Facebook the memo was, or Roblox the memo was. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:16 Harry Stebbings Can I ask another one, which is actually, it was Maureen on your team that suggested this, and I love this, she was like, you know, bluntly, a lot of investors segment themselves into early stage, late stage, and they could be segmented,…
- ▶ 34:33 David Sze And I also say, I think another thing is, I always say to keep myself humble, and I say this to my partners is, anytime you start thinking about how you made all these great calls on the LinkedIn's, the Facebook's, the Discord's, the…
- ▶ 38:33 David Sze We were fast friends, and that led to the investment in LinkedIn and me inviting him to come to Greylock, and it's been 20 plus years of just
20VC: How To Deliver Feedback with Compassion and Clarity, WTF Are Values Really and How To Instill Them & Raising $50M+ From Index and Greylock but Remaining in Stealth for 12 Months with Linda Lian, Co-Founder & CEO @ CommonRoom
- ▶ 3:31 Linda Lian So the first one was after a stint at a late stage startup in San Francisco, I moved back to Seattle, didn't know what I was supposed to be doing, cold messaged someone on LinkedIn, his name was David Rosenthal.
- ▶ 19:08 Linda Lian So similar to how I got my job at Madrona by reaching out cold on LinkedIn, I met my co-founders on Tinder for Enterprise on LinkedIn. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:32 Linda Lian We hadn't updated our LinkedIns.
20VC: The Pinterest Memo: Bessemer's Jeremy Levine on The Secret To Success within User Generated Content Plays, Where Most Investors Make Mistakes When Analysing Consumer Social and How The Pinterest Deal Wouldn't Have Happened without a Diverse Partners
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings Five of his early stage investments, LinkedIn, MindBody, Pinterest, Shopify, and Yelp, have grown into billion dollar publicly traded companies.
- ▶ 7:00 Jeremy Levine Free was extremely intriguing to me, and so that led to investments literally six years before in Yelp, in LinkedIn, in Wikia, in OLX, and so I'd done a whole bunch of these. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:35 Jeremy Levine I mean, at the time, in 2011, LinkedIn was still a private company. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Tony Fadell "The Father of The iPod" on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need to Be Coachable, Why VCs Need To Be More Direct & Why The First Trillionaire Will Innovate Around Climate Change
- ▶ 7:33 Tony Fadell Luckily we have LinkedIn now. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Snapchat Memo: Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on The 4 Key Elements To Consider When Evaluating A Consumer Social Product, What is Good/Great/World Class For Retention, Usage and Downloads in Consumer Social Today & The Core Insight Development of Eva
- ▶ 5:09 Jeremy Liew I then looked up Snapchat on LinkedIn, and I couldn't find any contact information, and I was at a little bit of a loss. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:01 Jeremy Liew And with that one insight, starting from first principles, thinking about how people interact with each other, he has changed the course of all social networks, because you can't find, you know, whether it's Twitter, or LinkedIn, or, you…