LinkedIn

5 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 18, 2020 by David Sacks · said 78 times in 59 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by Jason Calacanis (50), Chamath Palihapitiya (15), David Sacks (3), Mar Hershenson (2), Vib Altakar (1), Thomas Laffont (1), Satya Nadella (1), Matt Mahan (1)

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2023 14 mentions in 11 episodes 1 per episode
2022 9 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
2021 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
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Everything said about LinkedIn, oldest first

Dec 18, 2020 negative
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Major tech platforms censor posts contradicting the WHO
“Google, YouTube, and even sites like LinkedIn or Nextdoor are now censoring People's statements if they contradict the WHO, apparently without irony, because nobody has contradicted the WHO more than the WHO itself.”
David Sacks Dec 18, 2020 ▶ 35:47 E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
Jan 27, 2023 positive
Opinion
Chamath: LinkedIn is the only $20B+ tech acquisition that succeeded
“The only one of that scale that's really worked out definitively has been LinkedIn.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 27, 2023 ▶ 28:06 E113: DOJ tries to break up Google, vaccine questions, Ukraine escalation & more
Mar 31, 2023 bearish
Prediction Held up
Calacanis: Facebook and LinkedIn will block ChatGPT from accessing their data
“Somebody like Facebook, when they release their language model, which they're about to, is not going to allow ChatGPT to have any access to the Facebook corpus of data. And then LinkedIn will do the same. They'll block any access to ChatGPT to their data.”
Jason Calacanis Mar 31, 2023 ▶ 29:42 E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
Dec 8, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Chamath: Microsoft has successfully closed all major acquisition attempts under Brad Smith
“When you look at the track record of his ability post this consent decree to get deals done inside of Microsoft, it's truly incredible. There is nothing that they've really tried to buy, whether it's Nuance or whether it's Mojang or whether it's GitHub. Activi…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 1:26:47 E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
Jan 21, 2026 positive
Disclosure
LinkedIn merged product manager, designer, and engineering roles into full-stack builders
“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…”
Satya Nadella Jan 21, 2026 ▶ 9:15 Satya Nadella on AI’s Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft?
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