Hari Srinivasan
Chief Product Officer, LinkedIn. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Hari Srinivasan oversees LinkedIn’s core member experiences, AI platforms, and talent products, having joined the company following its 2014 acquisition of his startup, We Created It. He is also a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford University and the creator of diverse consumer technologies, apps, and books.
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Everything Hari Srinivasan said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Srinivasan: Great PMs live on the edges of the skill triangle, not the center
“I've actually never seen a great PM who's in the center of it. I find the great PMs live on the edges. Like there's a, you know, there's always someone who's like this exceptional data science and the ability to maybe be a great GM and lead inspire, or maybe s…”
Srinivasan: Product review processes get overly bureaucratic unless changed quarterly
“When we keep our product review process Live too long. It gets a little institutionalized and people start making, you know, like long documents and stuff, right? So you always have to change that every quarter.”
Srinivasan: Roughly 47% of LinkedIn recruiters use skills to find candidates
“And at this point, roughly 47% of our recruiters will come in and explicitly use skills when they start looking for candidates.”
Srinivasan: Openness to Internal Job Switching Will Lose Its Stigma Over 5-10 Years
“You know, sometimes we like to think five, 10 years out. I think it's going to go on the same journey. I that's kind of one hunch I have that it'll also be an employment, employment driven kind of way internally for people to find their next play.”
Srinivasan: PM hiring is trending slightly below software engineering hiring
“And we don't look at the functional data as much, but as you can the PM data seems to be trending just slightly, even maybe below software engineers and that as well, which is maybe a comp for this.”
Srinivasan: Escalate to decision makers after three emails and 20 call minutes
“If you had three back and forth from an email, you got to pick up the phone. And if you've been on the phone for 20 minutes, it's time to just write the, write that decision maker and go. And that way you can make sure the concept of an hour, you should be abl…”
Srinivasan: Most talent systems reward divisional growth over whole-system thinking
“Those who are able to see the hole and make decisions at the hole, that's kind of rare, actually. I think most talent systems are, hey, how did your division grow or your product grow, your error grow? And we've tried our best to understand that it's not just …”
Srinivasan: LinkedIn is testing 15-minute product reviews instead of hour-long meetings
“I'm trying this thing. I don't know if it's going to work, but could we get to like, 15 minute reviews basically instead of an hour and see if that kind of Alleviate some of this.”
Srinivasan: LinkedIn has nearly one billion users on its platform
“There's almost a billion people now on the platform, knowledge of those billion people in a way that people can find and see.”
Srinivasan: Hospitality workers have 70% of skills needed for customer service
“And you find a lot of people in hospitality have about 70% of the skills you need for customer service.”
LinkedIn is testing an 'Open to Internal Work' feature for employees
“So we're trying to do open to internal work, where you can say, I'm actually at the point where I may want to next play internally in my role, and an internal recruiter can see you.”
Srinivasan: Tech industry hiring is down about 50% year-over-year
“This is all public. We published this, but if you look at tech, it's down about 50% year over year.”
Srinivasan: Senior executive hiring happens via direct outreach, not job applications
“You certainly have CPO jobs that are posted, but the difference often is job posts versus recruiting, and more and more senior roles are often recruited, and so we find that people will use LinkedIn in order to connect to a CPO, and many people who are senior …”
Srinivasan: The vast majority of LinkedIn Learning usage runs through enterprise
“And then the vast majority of people will probably have access through, through their company. The vast majority of the usage and kind of the business runs through enterprise and is a large enterprise learning product.”
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 LENNY'S PODCASTLEDGER | Chief Product Officer, LinkedIn | 1 | 15 | 100% 2/2 | full record on Lenny's Podcast → |