LinkedIn

“The way the world's going to change is everyone's going to have a real name identity on the world, on the web, where that real name identity is going to be in different categories. There's going to be a social identity. There's going to be a professional ident…”

“What I had decided was the mistake around social net was targeting a dating business versus doing the new category, which is working network and professional network.”

“It was like, you know, a hundred plus hours a week. You're working all the time. You're not taking vacations.”

“Usual consumer internet things are you either hit the oil well and it goes to the moon, or it never goes. LinkedIn was one of those ones that compounded year after year. So you never really kind of got to the oil well, but we got to compounding and our relevan…”

“The fact that a lot of people, smart people, thought it was dumb means that you have a runway to start it, that you're being contrarian. Now, it doesn't mean that you're going to be right or not. And in order to get to the judgment that you might be right and …”

“The act of getting out of your head and saying something nice to someone else. It changes your mood. This is actually scientifically proven. So if you find yourself stewing in a bit of anxiety right now about the future and who isn't, write an endorsement for …”

“Yeah, I mean, they had a consulting agreement with me, not with Bruce. I think it was for three months. They never once called me.”

“It was not, it didn't feel perfect at the time, but it was the perfect suitor with the perfect business and the perfect time, and even though, you know, they've done something different with it than what we were doing, I know it's been super successful for the…”

“We reached out to John over LinkedIn really, and honestly, just to ask about how to build a sales team, and chatting with him, it just felt like, When he left, I kind of looked at Jeff and said, this is a guy that I think could run this thing. Very sales orien…”

“Silicon Valley was the place to build this business. You know, the, there was more investors who were open to ideas like this. The climate was more open to it as well. A lot of our friends and people we knew in London were very, very skeptical of meditation an…”