LinkedIn

“When LinkedIn shut down that service, just lots of businesses literally went out of business. They could not function anymore because they were based on that.”

“You can actually go and buy LinkedIn's enterprise product suite online by yourself with a credit card, and the truth is that most people don't because they want someone to help them make the right decision about what to buy in a consultative way.”

“About 60% of how LinkedIn makes money is through serving enterprises to help them hire great people”

“And I think what we've learned at LinkedIn is that compensation is not how culture is formed, ok?”

“When I inherited it was Probably about a forty million dollar business and grew it to over a billion dollars in the span of about four years.”

“Any time that we launched a new office or a new product, and we basically need to hire the first person to go seed the opportunity, we've always over hired.”

“And my guess is that for most products, you could actually find a price that you could, the product would, you know, in theory actually sell itself at scale. Truth is that we found that price to be materially lower than the value we can communicate to the mark…”

“Access is ubiquitous now, so that's not the game anymore. You used to hire a search firm back in the day because they had a database. Yeah, the database, that's now irrelevant.”

“LinkedIn is still no substitute for having a really strong internal process to manage candidates and really create a great employer brand out in the marketplace. You know, if you've sourced, let's say, 15 or 20 candidates for a position on your own, and you've…”

“The LinkedIn of India is LinkedIn. The Facebook of India is fundamentally Facebook. The Twitter of India is fundamentally LinkedIn. This is not true in e-commerce.”

“Social networks kind of necessarily become performant, right? Like, you're playing some sort of character, whether it's business character on LinkedIn, or you want to seem like you have a really fun life on Instagram, or, you know, your kid is adorable on Face…”

“If you want to get read, you've got to be in some kind of a platform that's giving your audience, and increasingly that means Facebook, or it means Medium, or it means LinkedIn, or it means some other intermediate platform that kind of comes with an implicit a…”

“There was a guy named Scott who started Rise, R-Y-Z-E, in 2000, which was LinkedIn two years before LinkedIn. But he wasn't Reid Hoffman. And Reid knew the top 4000 people in Silicon Valley and emailed. And then once we were on, all the guys in New York wanted…”

“So what you're seeing now is Twitter and Facebook and Netflix and Google and LinkedIn producing the stuff you actually want to use, which has already been tested at volume. And then it's actually much harder to build a proprietary software company because you'…”

“You're never going to go to an event like this and meet someone where you're pretty sure you've seen them before, but you don't remember their name. You're never going to have that awkward exchange because their LinkedIn profile is going to be floating above t…”

“When LinkedIn shut down that service, just lots of businesses literally went out of business. They could not function anymore because they were based on that.”

“We're going to be turning the LinkedIn resume of self-declared things into a feed of crypto credentials that is awarded to people by you. You close a sale, you get a crypto credential. It's an on-chain proof from your CEO at the time that you closed a sale for…”

“There's also, I think, room for a big kind of Indeed killer that takes these kind of blue collar jobs and makes them much easier to find and match and build a LinkedIn for those types of jobs as well, almost where there's like an identity layer and a reviews l…”

“I've seen posts on LinkedIn from startup founders that maybe don't have a background in coding and they're basically advocating for removing the code review check because they say, well, look, I just generated this whole program and I submitted it to my team a…”

“LinkedIn is a pointer to what you know, instead of actually containing what you know.”

“I think it's growing increasingly clear that people on ex-LinkedIn are behind, and there's such a very, extremely small intersection of people who understand how developed the algorithm is on, like, Instagram, TikTok, and people on tech, like, Twitter, LinkedI…”

“And so I think the reason why it's been difficult to create a disruptor to LinkedIn is it's a very hard network to build. It's actually not easy. And by staying really true to it, you end up getting a lot of people going, well, this is where I am for that. And…”

“LinkedIn is still the best way to find a negative reference.”

“The asset of Dig sold for pennies on the dollar, wasn't really worth a whole lot. But the patents ended up being worth millions of dollars that LinkedIn bought them from us.”

“You know, I was, you know, I was an angel investor in Twitter angel investor in LinkedIn, you know, they both, you know, became kind of key parts of the censorship machine at certain points.”

“Because if you were to sell to like me, you like find me, you know, in clay and you enrich it with some Apollo data, and then you look me up on LinkedIn, then you know, again, this is the guy that's going to buy my HR system. We can't really do that because Dr…”

“We had thousands of employees who were not allowed to put our company on LinkedIn.”