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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.
- ▶ 34:35 Chris Degnan I send emails on LinkedIn.
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Ely Lerner: Should Startups Hire Advisors & How much should they be paid? | E1075 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:35 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, when we look at Yelp in all its wonderful varieties, and then when we look at Chime, which we haven't discussed, but you spent time at for kind of close to two years, according to trusty LinkedIn.
Harry debates Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince: "Should startups target niche markets?" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:00 Matthew Prince I will say I'm quite surprised how many people this morning have been like sending me notes on LinkedIn and things being like, I can't believe you don't believe in the sort of niche.
Matthew Prince: The Two Biggest Mistakes Every Founder Makes | E1072 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:12 Matthew Prince Like, I mean, I will say I'm quite surprised how many people this morning have been, like, sending me notes on LinkedIn and things being like, I can't believe you don't believe in the sort of niche.
Matt Rosenberg: Why You Should Not Hire Sales Leaders From Big Companies | E1068 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:13 Matt Rosenberg Um, don't hire anybody that says on their LinkedIn, ex Google, ex Amazon, ex Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:43 Matt Rosenberg If you just check my LinkedIn messages, um, it is done very, very poorly.
Phin Barnes: The Services Model of Venture Capital is Broken, The Best Founders Do Need Help | E1067 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:55 Phin Barnes Here's a Google sheet with a bunch of LinkedIn links.
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:19 Harry Stebbings Six years and nine months, according to the trusty LinkedIn.
David Velez: How AI Changes The Future of Finance | E1059 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:40 David Vélez And, and they said that that was the best interview filter because the people that wanted, that was very much focused on their career, on their CV, on all the, on, on collecting LinkedIn acolytes, would see this house and would run away.
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
DEBATE: State of Seed Investing w/ Jason Lemkin, Sam Lessin, Frank Rotman & Harry Stebbings | E1047 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:38 Jason Lemkin It doesn't mean they won't LinkedIn a thousand people and set up a million calls.
Lori Jiménez: How to Increase Sales; Hiring Tips from Google; Best Way to Grow Sales Teams | E1043 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:40 Lori Jiménez What are they, are they looking because they want to demonstrate a certain level of progression on their LinkedIn profile?
- ▶ 25:08 Lori Jiménez You know, I think again, it's like, if, if, you know, there's, to your point, people can interview well, if the answers just are shallow, if they're just very canned and shallow and you feel like, okay, anyway, I could play back, you know,…
- ▶ 37:22 Lori Jiménez So first you got to get the buy-in with the champion instead of like going around and trying to meet a bunch of people, you know, going on LinkedIn to figure out who else in this company do I know?
Sri Batchu: Biggest Growth Lesson from Instacart & Opendoor; 70% of Experiments Should Fail | E1040 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:46 Sri Batchu You send me, you know, a message on LinkedIn or Twitter or whatever.
- ▶ 1:00:27 Sri Batchu Their LinkedIn and their resume seems reasonable.
Jean-Denis Greze: CTO of Plaid, the $18B Fintech Startup; How to Hire, Fire & Build Great UX | E1038 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:33 Harry Stebbings My question to you is, when you look at LinkedIn profiles today, what makes
- ▶ 17:26 Jean-Denis Greze And so there's some underrepresented groups for which being a staff engineer on LinkedIn
- ▶ 23:04 Harry Stebbings You have a bad day, you go down to your other half, and they say, oh, darling, well, what about those LinkedIn recruiters who are offering you jobs at the same pay?
Lauryn Isford: Product Growth Secrets from Facebook, Airtable, BlueBottle, Dropbox & Notion | E1037 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:34 Lauryn Isford Um, in general, it's hard in growth because LinkedIn might just say growth and it's not clear if that candidate is someone who's got more of a marketing background or more of a product and engineering background, but the work they're…
Gina Gotthilf: Lessons Scaling Duolingo from 3-200M Users; How to Master PR and Comms | E1028 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:34 Gina Gotthilf Then I would reach out to journalists on, sorry, on Twitter or on LinkedIn and
- ▶ 32:44 unnamed speaker And so you, I would write to these journalists and I would, you know, because on, on LinkedIn, you only get a really small message that you can send and on Twitter, there's like a 140 characters.
- ▶ 37:06 Gina Gotthilf So what I would say is you start earlier because you need to develop a relate again, like you need to develop a relationship with that journalist, even if it is just getting the journalist to respond to you once or like accepting your… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:17 Harry Stebbings You're like, hey, we're in this, tweet it, LinkedIn it, Instagram it, like, how do you help with that distribution?
- ▶ 1:02:49 Gina Gotthilf I can make us grow in Japan and I can message people on LinkedIn and they're going to respond because I don't even know the limits that I have.
Alex Lebrun: Why the EU's AI Regulation is a Disaster; How Zuck Prepares for Meetings | E1027 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:13 Alex Lebrun And I posted this on LinkedIn, and many doctors answered and said, no, actually it's more than 300 clicks.
Noah Weiss: How to Master Product-Led Growth; Scaling PLG to Enterprise at Google & Slack | E1026 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:55 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, you then go to Foursquare and you spend five years plus at Foursquare, I think five years and one month according to the trusty LinkedIn.
Rich Liu: Sales in 2023; How to Onboard, Manage and Scale Reps; PLG vs Enterprise Growth | E1023 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
TJ Parker: Building PillPack, The First E-Commerce Pharmacy, to Amazon's $1B Acquisition | E1022 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:22 Harry Stebbings I've interviewed, you know, leaders, functional leaders from Snap and LinkedIn in the last few days.
Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:15 Harry Stebbings CPO at LinkedIn, one of my favorite products. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:05 Harry Stebbings I ask quite unfair questions because they're generic, but I, I'm fascinated on this one always, which is like, when we think about products today, especially given your experience working kind of within semiconductors, within consumer, and…
- ▶ 11:19 Tomer Cohen So for example, at LinkedIn, we have many audiences. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:09 Tomer Cohen Personally, you know, working when I joined LinkedIn, Reed no longer had an operating role. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:07 Tomer Cohen In fact, the use case of LinkedIn dramatically evolved over the last few years. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:09 Tomer Cohen I think we've been very centered around what we're trying to do at LinkedIn and how it connects to our vision to 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:57 Tomer Cohen That's the founding insight of LinkedIn. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:16 Tomer Cohen Actually, follows right now is one of the most impressive growth trajectories at LinkedIn. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:59 Tomer Cohen You know, stories at LinkedIn, we launched stories, uh, a while back and it was a short, uh, test in many ways, but we launched stories because we built, we, we thought that we can basically unlock more creation on LinkedIn by allowing for… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:59 Tomer Cohen You know, stories at LinkedIn, we launched stories, uh, a while back and it was a short, uh, test in many ways, but we launched stories because we built, we, we thought that we can basically unlock more creation on LinkedIn by allowing for… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:07 Tomer Cohen Another example is, you know, when we look at the business side of the product, like, for example, if we build, think about our marketing solutions product, our advertising product, one of the strong opinions, which was we solve for ROI,…
- ▶ 39:20 Tomer Cohen So when we optimize the system, we optimize the system to double down on ROI in the marketplace, ROI for advertisers, being able to see the value versus LinkedIn trying to monetize.
- ▶ 42:44 Tomer Cohen And I think that's what we have here, um, with a great, uh, clarity on LinkedIn.
- ▶ 42:52 Tomer Cohen If I go back, the feed at LinkedIn, um, you know, now in hindsight doesn't seem controversial, but at the time it was very controversial. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:52 Tomer Cohen If I go back, the feed at LinkedIn, um, you know, now in hindsight doesn't seem controversial, but at the time it was very controversial. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:17 unnamed speaker So if you come to LinkedIn, you can think of LinkedIn as a productivity tool, really ultimately, and it's really helps you progress on the professional jobs to be done. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:30 Tomer Cohen In fact, a lot of what you see on LinkedIn is powered by AI. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:42 Harry Stebbings But LinkedIn is a publishing engine as well. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:32 Tomer Cohen Like, like, for example, when you operate on LinkedIn, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:58 unnamed speaker Transforming LinkedIn into a mobile company was a incredible moment to rethink, you know, originally LinkedIn was a desktop first company. 7 times in the scene
Ryan Wiggins: Scaling WhatsApp from 0-100M; How to Build a Growth Team; Mercury Neobank | E1016 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:13 Harry Stebbings Like, born out of, ah, LinkedIn profile, like Brian Hale, and like many other greats.
Mark Goldberger: The Ultimate Guide to Enterprise Sales | E1003 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:18 Mark Goldberger Uh, he actually reached out to me in a cold LinkedIn message and, and it cut through the noise and I responded to him and, uh, I've been excited to, to work with him and, and, and his team.
- ▶ 30:50 Mark Goldberger So for one thing, they didn't come from the right companies or they didn't have the right LinkedIn profile or something about them would have canceled them out from even getting into the funnel from a hiring standpoint.
Zach Lawryk: The Ultimate Guide to Sales Engineering | E980 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 7:59 Zach Lawryk Well, I, I, I do think it's amazing that we still use email to try to capture people's attention and how many LinkedIn messages I get with zero to little detail about a service that somebody is trying to provide or offer to me. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:37 Zach Lawryk Let me find an actual person, even on just LinkedIn that would buy this.
Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:19 Mike Duboe I've had a lot of success hiring people from biz ops teams out of a company like LinkedIn or, or kind of elsewhere who are really kind of
- ▶ 24:16 Harry Stebbings So if we have this growth spec now and we take it out, we put it on LinkedIn and Twitter and everywhere, give it through our investor networks, all this.
Canva's Cliff Obrecht: How We Turned Our Yearbook Company to $40B Business | 20VC #971 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:43 Cliff Obrecht You look at their attrition through LinkedIn, who's jumping jobs, et cetera, et cetera.
Stevie Case: World's First Female Pro Gamer; Hiring Tips for Sales; PLG vs Enterprise | 20VC #970 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:34 Stevie Case He, it tactically for salespeople, he commented on my LinkedIn posts in a human way.
Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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- ▶ 21:59 Harry Stebbings You can then take that to LinkedIn to then find the mutual connections you have with that person and ask for a warm intro. 3 times in the scene
ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:05 Henry Schuck It's a company that I woke up every day for 10 years wondering about, uh, uh, searching Twitter to see mentions of, searching LinkedIn to see mentions of, every day, first thing, boom, what are they doing?
- ▶ 36:21 Henry Schuck Any of my salespeople have seven recruiting offers in their LinkedIn in mail today.