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LinkedIn Beat Ryze Because Reid Hoffman Recruited Silicon Valley's Top 4,000
“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…”
James Currier Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:55 a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
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Zuegel: LinkedIn API shutdown destroyed businesses built on its data
“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.”
Devon Zuegel Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:22 a16z Podcast | Crypto And The Evolution Of Open Source
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Dan Shapiro: Talent Solutions grew from $40M to $1B in four years
“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.”
Daniel Shapero Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:56 a16z Podcast | Getting Sales Right
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Zuegel: LinkedIn API shutdown forced dependent third-party businesses to close
“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.”
Devon Zuegel Aug 20, 2018 ▶ 9:04 Crypto and the Evolution of Open Source
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Dan Shapiro: Enterprise hiring products generate 60 percent of LinkedIn revenue
“About 60% of how LinkedIn makes money is through serving enterprises to help them hire great people”
Daniel Shapero Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:30 a16z Podcast | Getting Sales Right
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