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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where LinkedIn comes up
a16z's David George on the Most Controversial Bet at a16z & Do Margins and Revenue Matter in AI? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:42 David George He, so I, I recently, I had some post, I think it was, um, you know, an announcement of something, you know, that I posted on LinkedIn.
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:07 Jonathan Siddharth This required this human to use three different tools, LinkedIn, Salesforce, and ZoomInfo, right?
Base44’s Founder, Maor Shlomo on How Vibe Coding Will Kill SaaS · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:54 Maor Shlomo and read your LinkedIn posts and see your, um, the traction that you're getting informed or try to digest, and then fill in your calendar, different, like, functional, complex stuff that you use day to day.
- ▶ 1:06:00 Harry Stebbings I listen to you today, genuinely, dude, and I'm like, wow, I really want to build a tool that allows me to go through all my LinkedIn followers, find everyone who has a certain title that would suggest they're an LP, an investor in funds,… 3 times in the scene
20Sales: Why You Need a CRO Pre-Product | Why Remote Sales Teams Do Not Work | How Snowflake Built a Sales Machine with Chad Peets
- ▶ 49:08 unnamed speaker Like 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.
Sequoia Partner, David Cahn on Who Wins in AI, Defence & The New $0–$100M Playbook · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 53:39 Harry Stebbings I, I saw on LinkedIn you said, follow the smartest people a year ahead of you.
20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao
- ▶ 36:51 unnamed speaker You probably have actually heard or read or seen, if you've spent any time on the internet or LinkedIn at all, there are a lot of people who come out with predictions that SEO is dead, or that, you know, we've moved on to this new world… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:15 Sandy Diao You can't just really trust what I say, what you hear on other podcasts, what you read on LinkedIn, because the reality is that those channels are constantly changing.
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:17 unnamed speaker Well, not only that, literally I was, I was on LinkedIn, uh, just yesterday and, and, uh, a founder I've known from a distance for a while.
20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan
- ▶ 13:30 Chris Degnan Find the company, find the, the head of data, VP of engineering on LinkedIn.
OpenAI's Multi-Billion Deal with AMD & Polymarket, Vercel and Supabase Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:21 Jason Lemkin And someone on LinkedIn had just brought up the fact that Balderton bought, led the seed round in Revolut, two million at eight post.
Cerebras CEO, Andrew Feldman on Why Raise $1BN and Delay the IPO & Why NVIDIA’s Worried About Growth · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:08 Andrew Feldman I, I read your, your, uh, your LinkedIn posts, your Twitter posts.
- ▶ 1:09:52 Andrew Feldman Um, these things are, you know, nobody, uh, puts on their, their LinkedIn data pipeline expert, and yet these are some extraordinarily valuable cats.
- ▶ 1:18:28 Andrew Feldman You know, I, I, my view of your LinkedIn post, by the way, is there, there are two, exactly two things I've read in my life that, uh, feel like they understand what entrepreneurship is. 2 times in the scene
20Growth: How to Use Influencers to Scale Growth Insanely Fast | How to Optimise User Onboaring for Growth | How the Best Growth Teams Create Organic Growth and Community | Why LTV/CAC Models are BS with Ketty Slonimsky
- ▶ 34:50 Harry Stebbings Yeah, I've done this on LinkedIn a lot. 2 times in the scene
Are Burn Multiples BS in an AI World? & Sam Altman Needs $1TRN of Energy · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:32 Jason Lemkin And I, I got burned out of LinkedIn people saying the seat is dead because it's obviously not true at some level, right?
The Impact of H1B Visas on Startups in the US & NVIDIA Invests $100BN Into OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:03 unnamed speaker We're all on this ride together, but the frothiest sign is now LinkedIn LPs are bragging about their returns on LinkedIn LPs. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why AI SDRs are BS and Do Not Work | How to Use AI in Your Sales Team and Process to Win Today | What Skills Do All New Reps Need to Have in an AI First World with Amit Bendov, CEO @ Gong
- ▶ 50:26 Amit Bendov Uh, literally I had like someone reach out to me on LinkedIn. 2 times in the scene
Sam Altman's Masterplan or a Gift to Anthropic? Palantir & Shopify Crush Earnings · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:10 Jason Lemkin And if you want to fight that, like people would say I was toxic or it was hurting their feelings a couple months ago on LinkedIn.
20Sales: $0-$3.7BN: The Databricks CRO's Playbook to Build the Fastest GTM Engine in SaaS History | How Databricks Beat Snowflake | How To Build a Sales Org of 5,000 and Close $190M Deals with Ron Gabrisko
- ▶ 13:41 unnamed speaker We'd go make phone calls, LinkedIn, emails, all that stuff. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:39 unnamed speaker So you've had to have researched the company, the opportunity, the people you're talking to, their LinkedIn profiles.
- ▶ 55:37 unnamed speaker I mean, even now, like, I mean, how many emails and LinkedIn posts do you get?
Windsurf x Google x Cognition: Full Breakdown: Who Made Money, Who Did Not · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:51 Jason Lemkin I know this company doesn't, and then it found this perfect person from UpSpot, this VP of sales that I go into LinkedIn, she doesn't exist, and no one in this database of 4000 people existed.
- ▶ 35:59 Jason Lemkin But this, I, there's so many charlatans on X and LinkedIn that are like, SaaS is dead because over the weekend I rolled my own Notion, HubSpot, um, uh, um, my whole entire stack at Jira.
20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- ▶ 0:30 Harry Stebbings Today was a very natural, free-flowing conversation that originated from one of his LinkedIn posts, which I loved, and I so appreciate him rejoining me in the hot seat today to really delve into how AI changes the growth landscape as we…
- ▶ 24:27 unnamed speaker You actually cited it in a LinkedIn post that I loved and you actually cited Cloudflare CEO.
- ▶ 35:46 Kieran Flanagan I think on LinkedIn, probably 90%.
Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman: Acquired by Meta | Microsoft Layoff 9000 People | OpenAI's Bombshell · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 55:37 unnamed speaker From folks that have been around Rory for a while in B to B, the angst, and you see it on LinkedIn in person, is I, Rory, I need to be re-skilled.
Figma’s IPO: The Full Breakdown & Why Melio’s $2.5BN Acquisition is “Discouraging” · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:30 Jason Lemkin I mean, Dave Clark said on LinkedIn the other day that just massive amounts of cash coming back.
20Sales: How to Layer Enterprise Sales on PLG | How to Sell AI Tools To Enterprises That Are Scared | Should Reps Own Their Own Pipeline | Mistakes All Founders Make When Moving From Founder-Led to Rep-Led Sales with Kim Graves
- ▶ 34:45 Harry Stebbings Also just like the little things go a long way, like commenting on several LinkedIn posts, like awesome to see people recognize continuity of commenting. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:20 Kim Graves We're using warm connections from LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
- ▶ 1:03:17 Kim Graves And so instead of that message coming from you directly, you ghostwrite messages for your manager or another person in the company that you see has a connection on Sales Navigator, and you start to build inroads with your team.
Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:11 unnamed speaker And, and, and it was such a, and then, and then his point is, and his point when he did the interview was like, listen, I want to bring, like you guys on Twitter and LinkedIn are like two or three years behind what's going on on TikTok and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:28 unnamed speaker And you're exactly right, LinkedIn, obviously.
Chime IPO: Are IPOs Hotter Than Ever? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:58 unnamed speaker Like LinkedIn, it's not as good, but like LinkedIn and Microsoft, it's just a different Slack. 2 times in the scene
Is DPI The Only Thing That Matters? with Sam Lessin, Jason Lemkin & Rory O’Driscoll · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:08 Jason Lemkin It's every, they have an Anthropic fund every, cause I follow all the guys and on LinkedIn, nothing, but they're serious.
20Sales: From $2M ARR to $40M ARR: The Playbook | How to Use AI To Supercharge Your Sales Team | Why Pipeline Reviews are BS | The Sales Call Script that Closes 99% of Prospects and How to Hire the Best Sales Reps with Kyle Norton, CRO @ Owner
- ▶ 7:05 Kyle Norton So I've been writing on LinkedIn for six, seven years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:44 Kyle Norton It's the speed at which the number is growing in every single role, because at some point my content engine, like basically me cranking LinkedIn will only get us so far.
- ▶ 1:04:50 Harry Stebbings But it's so underutilized, and it's actually underutilized because the cost of entry is still quite high versus posting on LinkedIn. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:36 unnamed speaker And I saw that LinkedIn, um, executive who posted on, you know,
Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:26:41 unnamed speaker Number one, I hired the first a hundred people in Airworks by myself on LinkedIn. 3 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 7:04 Luke Harries And that's still my LinkedIn cover photo is me, Matty, and Philip.
- ▶ 25:28 Luke Harries So we post on X, we post on LinkedIn, we post on Blue Sky, we post on threads, every single channel, product hunt, Reddit, Hacker News. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:01 Luke Harries So for us, that's X and LinkedIn. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:16 Luke Harries You're getting the dopamine of likes on your LinkedIn posts, likes on your X threads.
- ▶ 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