7 statements across 5 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 29, 2019 by Jon Harris · said 109 times in 55 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Ted Seides (32), Jennifer Prosek (12), Tom Lenehan (7), Dave Thornton (4), Peter Kraus (3), Jon Harris (3), Ash Fontana (3), Wylie Fernyhough (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 20 mentions in 12 episodes 2 per episode
- Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)
- Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
- Michael Sidgmore – Alternatives Go Mainstream (Private Wealth 1, EP.443)
- Ian Charles - Private Equity's New Rules (EP.431)
- Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- Adrian Meli – Active Equity Excellence at Eagle (EP.459)
- Ted on Alt Goes Mainstream (EP.458)
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 14 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
2023 23 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
- Sonya Sawtell-Rickson – Total Portfolio Approach at Australian Superannuation HESTA (EP.342)
- Finny Kuruvilla – The Fourth Source of Alpha at Eventide (EP.343)
- Tim Lyne – Three Decades of Private Credit at Antares (EP.346)
- Raelan Lambert, John Jackson, and Erik Sebusch – Inside Mercer Consulting (EP.345)
- Adam Shapiro – Post-Breeding Grounds for Rising Stars and Families (Capital Allocators, EP.319)
- Gary Sernovitz - Inside the CIO Seat (EP.357)
- Nicolai Tangen – Overseeing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund (EP.354)
- Muthu Muthiah - Inefficiency and Innovation at CHOA (EP. 339)
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 12 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Tom Lenehan – Taking the Helm at the Wallace Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.246)
- Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- Allan Jean-Baptiste and Marco DeMeireles – Under-covered Venture Markets and Teams at Ansa Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.36)
- Regan Bozman – Defensible Moats in Crypto at Lattice Capital (Manager Meetings, 34)
- Sean O'Sullivan – Start-up Development at SOSV, Venture is Eating the Investment World 3 (Capital Allocators, EP.231)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 13 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Ted with Jenny Heller – Compounding Knowledge and Relationships (Capital Allocators, EP.185)
- Jennifer Prosek – Business Development and Leadership in a Virtual World (Capital Allocators, EP.177)
- Wylie Fernyhough – Private Equity Stakes (Capital Allocators, EP.208)
- Friends Reunion – Five Allocators Riff on Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.215)
- Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 12 mentions in 10 episodes 1 per episode
- Peter Kraus - Widening the Aperture on Alpha (First Meeting, EP.14)
- Ted Seides - Capital Allocators Year in Review (Capital Allocators, EP.170)
- Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)
- Carrie Thome – Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained at WARF and beyond (Capital Allocators, EP.160)
- Greg Fleming – Building and Running Rockefeller Capital Management (Capital Allocators, EP.125)
- Mike Mauzé - Escape Velocity for CPG Brands at VMG Partners (First Meeting, EP.16)
- Doug Phillips – Middle of the Fairway at the University of Rochester (Capital Allocators, EP.123)
- James Aitken – Tour Around the World from a Small Island (Capital Allocators, EP.122)
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Ash Fontana – Investing in Artificial Intelligence at Zetta Ventures (First Meeting, EP.11)
- Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
- Joe Lonsdale – Entrepreneurship and 8VC (First Meeting, EP.09)
- Jen Prosek – Branding an Asset Management Firm (Capital Allocators, EP.81)
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 2 mentions in 1 episode
2017 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
Everything said about LinkedIn, oldest first
Jul 29, 2019
Jon Harris leverages his personal LinkedIn network for AIM manager diligence
“We use my LinkedIn account as a firm, and so when we're meeting with managers, we'll connect to everybody within that firm. We then are able to get graduation years, so we can see everybody that went to Yale, And being able to find a warm connection and making…”
Feb 24, 2020 negative
Jul 15, 2024 bullish
Prosek: LinkedIn Shifted From Job Board to Thought Leadership for PE
“One thing that has happened since the pandemic, for instance, is that LinkedIn went from being perceived as a job seekers space to a real thought leadership news breaking platform to serious business people, partially because the pandemic forced us all to find…”
Jul 15, 2024 positive
Prosek: Long-Form Newsletters on LinkedIn Outperform Deal Announcements
“Most people use LinkedIn just to show the momentum of their firm. This thing happened today. This deal happened. We hired this person, and that's great, but the next level is really writing longer-form content in a newsletter fashion.”
Jul 15, 2024 positive
Feb 10, 2025 positive
Charles: LinkedIn network dominance predicts VC performance better than quartile tracking
“We, a long time ago, supported some really cool academic research on using network dominance to predict venture fund performance. It was actually better than core tiles. You could actually measure how important and how connected someone was mathematically Thro…”
Nov 6, 2025
Automated LinkedIn tracking identifies startup employees entering 90-day option exercise windows
“We are sitting on top of job website data, think of LinkedIn, and we are paying attention to the employees of the companies that we like, and as soon as we see they update their bio in some relevant way, specifically by putting an end date Next to their tenure…”