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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where LinkedIn comes up
Katelin Holloway – Human Side of Venture Investing at 776 (EP.490)
- ▶ 30:28 Katelin Holloway Or drafting up tweets and LinkedIn posts on behalf of the partners and other people at the firm to help support with a fundraise.
Mike Gitlin – The Century of Capital Group (EP.479)
- ▶ 54:52 Mike Gitlin You can think of it as internal LinkedIn.
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 17:18 Alex Sacerdote If you're LinkedIn, more people on LinkedIn, the more valuable it is, the faster it grows. 2 times in the scene
Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
- ▶ 40:59 Matthew Dicks There was no LinkedIn.
- ▶ 1:17:41 Matthew Dicks It means you're going to tap phones and exchange LinkedIn information.
Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)
- ▶ 18:20 Dave Thornton Those are the moment in time differentiated data sets, and then we've got the stuff that we collect from and through the employees, and some of these I'm not going to be able to talk in too much detail about, but just to give you an…
- ▶ 21:34 Dave Thornton 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 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:04 Dave Thornton Well, if we wanted to take the tens of thousands of message conversations we've ever had with people on LinkedIn, and we wanted to turn that into Signal, LLMs would be excellent for that.
Adrian Meli – Active Equity Excellence at Eagle (EP.459)
- ▶ 10:02 Adrian Meli So disappointed that they had to meet with me for an hour, but there was no LinkedIn.
Ted on Alt Goes Mainstream (EP.458)
- ▶ 50:08 Ted Seides We've played around with the different channels, and what works for us, which might be LinkedIn, because it's more business, is different from someone, if you're a venture capitalist, maybe it's TikTok, Twitter, X.
Hugh MacArthur – Private Equity's Challenges and Opportunities (EP.453)
- ▶ 14:48 Hugh MacArthur You can do automated scrapes of LinkedIn and Glassdoor to figure out how employees are feeling about companies and how one competitor's sales force is organized compared to another competitor.
Eric Mogelof – KKR's Pivot to Private Wealth (Private Wealth 3, EP.446)
- ▶ 22:25 Eric Mogelof We do a little bit of it, and the reality is that we will do things on LinkedIn and other social media, and we will try and target, but the reality is we don't do a whole lot of it today, but that might change over time.
Michael Sidgmore – Alternatives Go Mainstream (Private Wealth 1, EP.443)
- ▶ 20:54 Michael Sidgmore They need to be on LinkedIn.
- ▶ 50:40 Michael Sidgmore Using things like LinkedIn as a way to communicate with investors.
Ben Forman – Unlocking Blockchain's Potential (EP.441)
- ▶ 30:01 Ben Forman Anyone can say anything on X or on LinkedIn or CNN or Fox.
Shannon O'Leary – Relationship Capital Investing at St. Paul & Minnesota Foundation (EP.435)
- ▶ 4:47 Ted Seides She described herself as blunt, comfortably speaking her mind, including in her LinkedIn newsletter entitled
Ian Charles - Private Equity's New Rules (EP.431)
- ▶ 47:23 Ian Charles You basically have to scrape tons of LinkedIn data. 2 times in the scene
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 26:06 Mitchell Green I see you're 50 employees on LinkedIn.
- ▶ 47:12 Mitchell Green My mom and my grandma, like everybody's mom and grandmother does this, but it's a lost art, and we literally get CEOs who write us LinkedIn posts, or Twitter posts, or X, whatever, or thank you emails for a thank you note.
Year in Review 2024 (EP.424)
- ▶ 10:52 Ted Seides Blackstone, the blue chip organization, all of a sudden John Gray is on LinkedIn with a series of videos of him going for a morning run in different locations around the world.
Jennifer Prosek – Nailing the Narrative (EP.396)
- ▶ 5:13 Ted Seides We discussed her thoughts on the trends driving capital flows and some great gen-isms from her LinkedIn newsletter called Leading In Volatile Times.
- ▶ 14:48 Jennifer Prosek 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… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:55 Jennifer Prosek It's paid LinkedIn targeting.
- ▶ 48:14 Ted Seides As you spent some time writing in your LinkedIn newsletter, I'd love to ask you about some genisms, these catchphrases you create.
Alexis Ohanian – From Reddit to 776, a Technology Company that Deploys Venture Capital (EP.388)
- ▶ 14:27 Alexis Ohanian So remember, this is before Twitter, before LinkedIn.
- ▶ 51:42 Alexis Ohanian This lets our content team, but also our founders ghostwrite entire tweets, LinkedIn posts for us.
Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler (EP.369)
- ▶ 21:58 Magnus Grimeland So Index, for example, the entire LinkedIn database, we built a tool called Haystack.
- ▶ 37:51 Magnus Grimeland But there's also small things is in Norway, they started testing this specific way to use LinkedIn.
Gary Sernovitz - Inside the CIO Seat (EP.357)
- ▶ 34:30 Gary Sernovitz The one thing I'm really fascinated is the need to make this a philosophy, to make this a structure, to make this a long LinkedIn post, to make this a TED talk about what investing is, what meaning is, and to analogize to science when, in…
Nicolai Tangen – Overseeing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund (EP.354)
- ▶ 44:20 Nicolai Tangen And the LinkedIn is full of me on LinkedIn as well.
Tim Lyne – Three Decades of Private Credit at Antares (EP.346)
- ▶ 1:38 Ted Seides Before we get going, following up from the last spread the word when I went to create an auto-response on LinkedIn messaging, I found out that LinkedIn limits the number of characters you can put in that message. 3 times in the scene
Raelan Lambert, John Jackson, and Erik Sebusch – Inside Mercer Consulting (EP.345)
- ▶ 5:15 Ted Seides Before we get going, following up from the last spread the word when I went to create an auto-response on LinkedIn messaging, I found out that LinkedIn limits the number of characters you can put in that message. 3 times in the scene
Finny Kuruvilla – The Fourth Source of Alpha at Eventide (EP.343)
- ▶ 1:34 Ted Seides Before we get going, I'd like to tell you about my relationship with LinkedIn. 5 times in the scene
Sonya Sawtell-Rickson – Total Portfolio Approach at Australian Superannuation HESTA (EP.342)
- ▶ 5:28 Ted Seides Before we get going, I'd like to tell you about my relationship with LinkedIn. 6 times in the scene
Muthu Muthiah - Inefficiency and Innovation at CHOA (EP. 339)
- ▶ 50:29 Muthu Muthiah How can tech enable us to just be better manager selectors, and some of the things that come to mind are APIs into LinkedIn, so that we're not waiting to hear from a manager if somebody left, and we can actually figure out if somebody's…
Adam Shapiro – Post-Breeding Grounds for Rising Stars and Families (Capital Allocators, EP.319)
- ▶ 4:42 Ted Seides Adam has recently begun sharing his insights on a LinkedIn newsletter entitled From Star to Founder.
- ▶ 53:54 Adam Shapiro Uh, I have a newsletter I've been writing on LinkedIn where we didn't get into this, but coming out of college, I wanted to be a professor and an academic and an economist and think big thoughts.
Andy Lee – Empty Rooms: Investing in Tax Assets at Parallaxes Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.305)
Allan Jean-Baptiste and Marco DeMeireles – Under-covered Venture Markets and Teams at Ansa Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.36)
- ▶ 32:48 Alan Jean-Baptiste Majority ethnically diverse, not because we went into LinkedIn and said black executive in sales and marketing, but because we went to school with these people.
Regan Bozman – Defensible Moats in Crypto at Lattice Capital (Manager Meetings, 34)
- ▶ 21:15 Ted Seides I can only imagine that every message you get is some new project on wherever it's coming from, your email, LinkedIn, Twitter, and how do you start thinking about filtering through to where you want to focus?
Tom Lenehan – Taking the Helm at the Wallace Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.246)
- ▶ 8:51 Tom Lenehan I'm getting things from LinkedIn, which that's a change. 7 times in the scene
Fabrice Grinda – Canvassing Seed Stage Marketplaces at FJ Labs, Venture is Eating the Investment World 4 (Capital Allocators, EP.232)
- ▶ 35:36 Fabrice Grinda I mean, because of our positioning and our brands, the deals come to us, which is an amazing quality as well for the people on the team, because if you look at the associates or analysts and most other venture firms, they spend all their…
- ▶ 52:16 Fabrice Grinda Most of it comes to my LinkedIn and we review it.
Sean O'Sullivan – Start-up Development at SOSV, Venture is Eating the Investment World 3 (Capital Allocators, EP.231)
- ▶ 37:16 Sean O'Sullivan Okay, here are 20 people on LinkedIn.
Friends Reunion – Five Allocators Riff on Investing (Capital Allocators, EP.215)
- ▶ 34:27 Ted Seides I don't know if you see it on LinkedIn, like what Nikolai is posting.
Wylie Fernyhough – Private Equity Stakes (Capital Allocators, EP.208)
- ▶ 4:25 Wylie Fernyhough And I'd love to say that there was this great moment of enlightenment that I needed to study private markets, but it was really more of, I want to stay in Seattle and work in something finance or finance related, and just jumped on… 2 times in the scene
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 41:22 Jeff Hausenbold And so we build up that basis of seeing each other beyond whatever box our job description is or what our LinkedIn profile says.
Ted with Jenny Heller – Compounding Knowledge and Relationships (Capital Allocators, EP.185)
- ▶ 30:30 Ted Seides I have a lot of people reach out to me over LinkedIn and Twitter and LinkedIn in particular. 4 times in the scene
Jennifer Prosek – Business Development and Leadership in a Virtual World (Capital Allocators, EP.177)
- ▶ 11:27 Jennifer Prosek How are you showing up on LinkedIn? 4 times in the scene
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 1:01:14 Chris Dixon I have a LinkedIn account.
Ted Seides - Capital Allocators Year in Review (Capital Allocators, EP.170)
- ▶ 6:57 Ted Seides Lastly, we recently started YouTube and Instagram accounts alongside LinkedIn and Twitter to share episodes and quotes across social media.
Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)
- ▶ 54:31 Daryn Dodson That's really the best way, or reach out to me on LinkedIn.
Carrie Thome – Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained at WARF and beyond (Capital Allocators, EP.160)
- ▶ 53:57 Carrie Thome Well, we have a website and LinkedIn, so it's nvngia.com is the website, and nvng is out there on LinkedIn, and we have a program, and we put materials out there, and we host webinars.
Greg Fleming – Building and Running Rockefeller Capital Management (Capital Allocators, EP.125)
- ▶ 1:00:11 Greg Fleming I use LinkedIn and my marketing colleagues helped me with that.
Mike Mauzé - Escape Velocity for CPG Brands at VMG Partners (First Meeting, EP.16)
- ▶ 17:33 Mike Mauze Can go onto our LinkedIn accounts, find every transaction that we've invested in.
Doug Phillips – Middle of the Fairway at the University of Rochester (Capital Allocators, EP.123)
- ▶ 58:35 Doug Phillips or I had a LinkedIn account.
James Aitken – Tour Around the World from a Small Island (Capital Allocators, EP.122)
- ▶ 1:05:39 James Aitken I do not use LinkedIn.
Peter Kraus - Widening the Aperture on Alpha (First Meeting, EP.14)
- ▶ 1:12:12 Peter Kraus Simon Thorpe, who runs our credit business, is the number one influencer in the finance business at LinkedIn. 3 times in the scene
Beezer Clarkson – Sapphire Gem of Early Stage Venture (Capital Allocators, EP.120)
- ▶ 59:12 Beezer Clarkson I've seen some short-form video coming up on LinkedIn, which is super interesting.
Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
- ▶ 1:03:13 Gregory Zuckerman I'll do some LinkedIn, connecting with sources and getting tips and that kind of thing.
Ash Fontana – Investing in Artificial Intelligence at Zetta Ventures (First Meeting, EP.11)
- ▶ 1:09:56 Ash Fontana Um, Twitter and LinkedIn are pretty cool, though. 3 times in the scene
Joe Lonsdale – Entrepreneurship and 8VC (First Meeting, EP.09)
- ▶ 16:26 Joe Lonsdale Or even Reid Hoffman, who did LinkedIn, who was with us at PayPal.
Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
- ▶ 23:30 Jon Harris We track, I'm almost at 30,000 LinkedIn connections, which leads to a bit of an issue because I'm getting many emails or calls from friends saying, hey, I see you're connected on LinkedIn. 3 times in the scene
Jen Prosek – Branding an Asset Management Firm (Capital Allocators, EP.81)
- ▶ 33:48 Jennifer Prosek Like psychologically, like when everyone's LinkedIn page goes from partner to MD overnight, and they thought it was no big deal, and I thought this is not just a big deal to your whole world.
Michael Cembalest – Eye on the Market (Capital Allocators, EP.49)
- ▶ 55:29 Ted Seides One of the people on your team told me that you are recently taken to LinkedIn to put your pieces out and share it in a, in a different way. 2 times in the scene
David Barrett – Searching for Leaders (Capital Allocators, EP.26)
- ▶ 32:21 David Barrett Increasingly at the very senior levels where, and, and so I think boutiques are much better focused boutiques, because you don't have the overhead, you don't have to have as many searches, and you will be perceived as adding value at the… 2 times in the scene
Dan Schorr – Death, Ice Cream, and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.19)
- ▶ 33:47 Dan Schorr And, you know, great find also for us there, um, you know, through LinkedIn and through some connections, managed to find her.