LinkedIn

“The LinkedIn scraping in the end, no business at scale ever gets built on that, and no business at scale ever gets built on breaking Google's terms of service.”

“Every single person I get on a demo with, they all acknowledge instantly that they know they should be more visible on LinkedIn and they should be posting more often, but there's no sense of urgency to do so because they already have a profitable business. Oka…”

“If we were to look at purely social media, like if you really, you know, if I were, you know, if I had to really pick, Facebook likely is interesting because I actually do think it is most sort of a default version of people because you go to LinkedIn, it's ve…”

“Our general counsel I hired off of LinkedIn.”

“If I can read what people have written over the last four years on LinkedIn, I can tell you who they are without having to ask them.”

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

“I probably, when I started Omni had, I don't know, seven or 8000 connections on LinkedIn, maybe, maybe 6000 or something like that. And a lot of these were people that had purchased BI from Looker at some point in the past that I talked to in person.”

“We had a thousand employees when we got acquired. I probably sent a LinkedIn message to 900 of them.”

“So like when our BDR team was doing this, they were getting like a three percent response rate. So they'd get three responses out of a hundred LinkedIn connects. I might get a 50% connect rate. And on a message, depending on the group, like to the ex looker gr…”

“The way that we have found that you can stand out is you have to look for signals or triggers that basically show that people are hand raising saying, Hey, I want this thing. I have an interest in this thing, right? And a great way to do this is with these Lin…”

“In reality, it's like, there's a handful of outliers within any niche and everybody is engaging with those handful of outliers. If you just monitor those outliers, you're actually going to get, you know, 80% surface area coverage for that entire industry. You …”

“If you look at my Twitter, like posts as an example, or even my LinkedIn, it is the exact same thing. Remix every 90 days, like full stop. That is all that's happening. And that, when you get enough information, like a bigger enough corpus, you have, you basic…”

“Like if you were paying for those impressions on platform, for example, on LinkedIn, it's like 22 dollars per thousand impressions is the average, right?”

“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…”

“I think in 90 days, the comments are gonna be so good on LinkedIn, like, you're almost like, should I just have my AI do the LinkedIn post and have the slop talk to the AI? Because it'll be better than a human could do.”

“So in 2004, when I went to Shenzhen there were three copies of LinkedIn. There were such exact copies in Chinese. I could fill out a profile. And I don't speak any Chinese.”

“Which a lot of people will get on LinkedIn to try to run ads for B to B. But they don't realize the entire, all the same people are on Facebook, and it's less competitive to get those people on Meta than it is on LinkedIn.”

“LinkedIn has been the single largest source for all of my career successes, I would argue, but definitely the source of pipeline, definitely the source of building trust and building relationships, right?”

“Very few people will remember who liked their post. Everybody will remember a thoughtful comment, right?”

“When you think about connection requests, when they're sent on LinkedIn, what one out of five connection requests are accepted, four to five are ignored or declined.”

“So typically by doing the kind of taking that philosophy, my connect, accept race acceptance rates around an 80%, right?”

“Your average customer is actually clicking into LinkedIn six to seven times per day.”

“If I look at all of my LinkedIn connections, about 90% of them are in my ICP, which is a brand side founder or marketing leader.”

“LinkedIn is that feedback loop. Like if you're, Bringing in the wrong folks, then you understand, okay, is it something with my product? Is it something with my messaging? What's my strategy that can often inform like what you should be writing about.”

“It's the equivalent of being at a cocktail party, seeing a pretty cool girl across the room at the bar, you walk straight up to her. And the first thing out of your mouth is, can I have your phone number? Like that's insulting. Like doesn't work. It's just the…”

“Why is it that one out of every 100 sellers creates regular content on LinkedIn? The other 99 don't.”

“About a year and a half ago, I founded Invest Ventures, which is a small micro fund. We raised about two million dollars for folks like Jeff Wiener, who's a former CEO, as well as executives from Cricket Health, Figma, Confluence, Superhuman a whole host of re…”

“I DMed 50 people being like, hey, I'm building this AI thing. You can like build an AI coach for yourself, train it, et cetera. Nobody replied to me. Okay. Like one out of 50 replied to me. And then what I did was my next batch of 50, I added a PS. At the end …”

“The second we had our first term sheet, everything else fell into place. Like many people came. The craziest thing I'll say is I had people cold, like investors cold DM me on LinkedIn saying, Hey, I heard you got a term sheet. I will also contribute a 150 kids…”

“We just announced a partnership with LinkedIn a couple of days ago, where every LinkedIn premium member now has free access to Lovable, and those conversion rates to paid are double digits.”

“At LinkedIn, they did structurally change and, you know, basically built up a new discipline called full stack builder, right? So they went and said, hey, let's bring people from design and product management, front end engineering, all put them together but a…”

“At LinkedIn, they did structurally change and, you know, basically built up a new discipline called full stack builder, right? So they went and said, hey, let's bring people from design and product management, front end engineering, all put them together but a…”

“I think you have to do the manual stuff at the start to kind of, to tinker the messaging. So, like, what I would be telling founders to do is, like, start with social selling on LinkedIn and, like, be as personalized as you possibly can from, like, voice notes…”

“And at one point when we were building Drip and I wanted to talk to some Ex-sales people and marketing people from some competitors of ours who used to work at those competitors, I similarly contacted them via LinkedIn, said, I'd love to talk to you, and said,…”

“Anyone on LinkedIn that talks about their team, fire them. My team this. They're all so precious about their team. Lead from the effin' front with AI.”

“One of our portfolio companies, the CRO, comes in every month, and gives me, like, the top 10 targets, and I just go with them to the CEOs on LinkedIn. I have a blue check mark and lots of followers on LinkedIn. Challenge shit on LinkedIn. Nine out of 10 respo…”

“Basically like I would have like this maybe big AI page post about chat base, and I would see Stripe like maybe a few hours later go up by like 3000 MRR from just that one post.”

“And eventually, you know, that, that same day had a CEO, local CEO that I didn't know really well, but we kind of had crossed paths a couple of times. So it was, I would call it a, Lukewarm lead. And I said, hey, I want to help your company figure out, you kno…”

“Last researchers from Meta or LinkedIn demonstrated that now what was called the six degrees of separation from any two human beings on planet Earth in reality as of today is being reduced to 3.5 degrees of separation.”

“As a reporter, I don't know if you've ever had this, but like sometimes I'll reach out, you know, I'll hear, I'll reach out to Apple employees via LinkedIn and immediately I get a phone call from Apple PR because employees really can take it extremely seriousl…”

“In my experience, I don't know what you guys think. In my experience, that has about a 30% chance of success. Just roughly. That bringing in the big, the perfect LinkedIn, giving them a massive portfolio and either attaching them to, and attaching to this some…”

“Half the problem in any of these products is actually not the machine learning stuff. It's actually just the data, like Getting, getting it, being able to work with it at scale, being able to apply it, being able to do that in the context of like a real runnin…”

“You can kind of, you know, you're onto a big problem when the number of use cases just keeps, you know, going up by like an order of magnitude that kind of pop out and where the problem you're solving seems really fundamental.”

“And you know, it actually took a while, you know, probably the first year, it mostly sat on the shelf as a open source project, which we were quite disappointed about.”

“When we went to quit, LinkedIn was like, oh, okay, well, this is, you know, first of all, we don't really want you to leave, but if you're going to leave, we do think this is really valuable. We would be interested in investing. And we were like, okay. Off the…”

“And it went from something where LinkedIn was going to be the kind of major investor to being, you know, a smaller part of the round. And it went from kind of a seed investment to a series A through the course of that fundraising process. But yeah, it was, you…”

“I have a reasonable LinkedIn following and I've been penalized for it in the larger companies. Like they were like, absolutely no, don't post. Delete the post. This is not good. I, we want to we want to prove anything that you post on social.”

“Till today, employees were not allowed to put the name of the company on their LinkedIn. We have thousands of employees.”

“So like I have one that's just like crawling LinkedIn, like as we speak and it's like looking for like ICP and then it enriches them. It writes a personalized email and a cold emails.”

“We used to try to repurpose this podcast to YouTube. Didn't work. Didn't work at all. And then we tried to repurpose YouTube videos to LinkedIn. Didn't work. Fail.”

“Probably only five, 10% of that came direct from those LinkedIn messages I was sending. The other 90% was indirectly, almost entirely through that, right? Because, you know, at the end of the day, if you're meeting one person, you're not meeting just them. You…”

“People are no longer sort of attracted to these, you know, bland corporate brands and the faces behind these companies. I mean, thanks to LinkedIn and things like that are becoming more important than the brands themselves.”

“Also LinkedIn. I think LinkedIn potential is enormous. The arbitrage, again, is there. The targeting is not perfect as an other solution yet, but I believe that those two are having tons of opportunity for us.”

“This post is called, I paid five inferences on LinkedIn to promote my SaaS. Here's what's 1250 dollars got me, and it got 160 K views, 543 upvotes. In terms of visitors, it got something like 2000 visitors, and out of 2000 visitors, we probably got something l…”

“I posted about them on LinkedIn, and they got four million in revenue from one LinkedIn post.”

“So for example, I'll give you, at LinkedIn, we used to have product managers, we had designers, we had front-end engineers, and then we had back-end engineers and so on. So what we did is we sort of took those first four roles and combined them. In fact, incre…”

“I've kind of let go about 50 people. And that's because we got a tool called clay, you know and suddenly we didn't have to do manual scraping and we didn't have to do manual copy paste from LinkedIn and so on.”

“The biggest game changer for me was doing human mocks. So cold outreaching to people on LinkedIn and having them do actual mocks for me. I think that at the end of the day, especially for the meta PM prep, which is super competitive and difficult. I think ther…”

“And then I actually realized it's good for a business. Cause you know, who's watching these videos? CMOs, right? And they're really important people to reach, and so you go into a meeting with the CMO, and you're like, hey, you know, I think you should adverti…”

“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.”