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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where LinkedIn comes up
Inside Artemis' "AI vs AI" war | Shachar Hirshberg & Dan Shiebler (Co-founders, Artemis)
- ▶ 9:26 Shachar Hirshberg And I think I even posted about it on LinkedIn is like the four most valuable days that any founder can get.
How to build a company when you’re not an optimist | Jay Kreps (Co-founder and CEO, Confluent)
- ▶ 0:03 Brett Berson He's the co-founder and CEO of Confluent, the data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka, the open source system he and his co-founders created while they were working as engineers at LinkedIn.
- ▶ 9:25 Brett Berson Maybe just so we have a little bit more scaffolding, you can give us the trailer version of the Confluent story going all the way back to when you were at LinkedIn, and then we'll use that as sort of a jumping off point. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:16 Jay Kreps You know, I think that combined with the impact internally at LinkedIn kind of carried us through.
- ▶ 33:35 Jay Kreps So the, yeah, the idea was, okay, we're going to leave LinkedIn and go figure out the details and put together a company and probably eventually go raise money. 6 times in the scene
Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former CRO, Snowflake)
- ▶ 41:25 Chris Degnan I mean, yes, I'm looking at their, their, their LinkedIn background or whatever, but yes, the answer is yes.
Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped this AI-native IT platform | Jake Stauch (Serval)
- ▶ 1:11:56 Jake Stauch Some of it is, is like profile of like, does their LinkedIn look like,
Starting an education giant in a “bad market” | ClassDojo’s story | Sam Chaudhary (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 21:38 Sam Chaudhary And so we, we really took this, I mean, I was a big nerd for basically all of Reed's writing, like he'd published the LinkedIn series A or series B deck or something.
How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | (Co-founder of Maven)
What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Stripe)
- ▶ 16:22 Eeke de Milliano And one of the sort of revisions that someone made, who was a friend of Stripe's, who actually wasn't a Stripe themselves, they said something like, your LinkedIn's never going to be as tricked out if you work at Stripe.
Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand
- ▶ 13:45 Varun Anand That's how we learned about like LinkedIn as the main growth lever for us. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:21 Varun Anand And so for us, we noticed that LinkedIn was really going well and, and content was really going well.
- ▶ 19:20 Brett Berson So building on what you're talking about with LinkedIn, what are the other things that 5 times in the scene
How to find & pull startup growth levers | Matt Lerner (Founder of SYSTM, Author of Growth Levers)
- ▶ 54:26 unnamed speaker So it turned out Twitter wasn't great, but LinkedIn worked better, right?
How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
- ▶ 18:49 Bob Moore We're like LinkedIn for data.
- ▶ 58:38 Bob Moore And what we learned really quickly, and this is obvious, is imagine that you sign up for LinkedIn, land in LinkedIn, and none of your contacts are there.
- ▶ 1:04:17 Bob Moore Because it is a LinkedIn for data.
- ▶ 1:10:18 Bob Moore Getting back to the LinkedIn analogy, imagine if you sign up for LinkedIn and all the people that you worked with at your first job were on your LinkedIn, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:30 Bob Moore Uh, which LinkedIn recruiter do you buy?
How to be effective up and down the org chart | Matt MacInnis (Rippling, Inkling, Apple)
- ▶ 57:05 Matt MacInnis Only like three or four years ago, I remember there was a, an acronym I came across on LinkedIn from someone who had tipped to this guy, but I don't remember his name, which was Spotak, which is not a super sexy acronym, but Spotak stands…
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
- ▶ 1:34 Brett Berson He also had an impactful stint as the VP of product and growth at Dropbox, as well as product leadership roles at eBay and LinkedIn.
- ▶ 7:11 Adam Nash I mean, one of the reasons I love working with, uh, Reid Hoffman at LinkedIn and learn so much from him, it's hard for me to imagine what my product thinking would be without having those years learning from Reid, working with Reid. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:59 Adam Nash And so when I went to LinkedIn, for example, I brought that, that was a point of view that I brought pretty heavily. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:05 Adam Nash So I think I did take that to LinkedIn. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:14 Brett Berson Going back to what we were talking about a second ago, what's there to be learned from LinkedIn's success and or why was it successful? 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:51 Adam Nash But yeah, starting with Salesforce and then LinkedIn, of course, did this phenomenally well, this idea of product led growth, which we now all talk about. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:56 Adam Nash When I took over LinkedIn profile, the identity system, it meant that what is our priority? 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:47 Adam Nash I did all this whole series because LinkedIn was obviously one of the viral greats, and it really wasn't. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:41 Adam Nash I mean, the truth is I got the pattern somewhat from LinkedIn because this is how Reed worked with Jeff and a number of us. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:35 Adam Nash That frankly helped me adjust at LinkedIn is we spent a lot of time together. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:30 Adam Nash So I, I went into LinkedIn with that belief that you had to have those two buckets. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:00 Adam Nash But yeah, that process, each company I've been at, LinkedIn, Wealthfront, Dropbox, eBay, you know, obviously Daffy now, you can find these examples, and they almost always come from a little bit of inspired insight.
A masterclass in founder conviction | Eilon Reshef (Co-founder and CPO at Gong)
- ▶ 13:21 Eilon Reshef I can tell you that I remember this one onboarding class a couple of years later, maybe three years later, where we had two people coming from a customer LinkedIn.
Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
A customer success masterclass | How to build and scale a CS org | Stephanie Berner (LinkedIn)
- ▶ 1:11 Brett Berson Stephanie is the global head of customer success for LinkedIn sales solutions and previously led customer success at box.
- ▶ 17:51 Brett Berson When you think back to some of the early CSMs you've hired, you've hired in your career that didn't come from a traditional background, are there any interesting stories that come to mind of people that ended up, ended up being sort of top…
- ▶ 1:09:11 Stephanie Berner I'd also credit a guy named David Love, and also, um, he was at Medallia with me, and my former boss at LinkedIn, Jonathan Lister, in really instilling a discipline of whenever you're solving problems, if it's a small problem for a…
A product-market-fit masterclass | Kareem Amin (Clay)
- ▶ 6:50 Kareem Amin What if it understood LinkedIn profile or, um, HubSpot URL?
The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
- ▶ 1:03:38 unnamed speaker Jay Simons was president at Atlassian and, and, you know, Dan's the CEO of LinkedIn. 2 times in the scene
Winning with open and closed source products | Neha Narkhede (Co-founder at Confluent and Oscilar)
- ▶ 1:14 Brett Berson Neha is one of the authors of Apache Kafka, the open source event streaming platform, which she co-created while working as a principal software engineer at LinkedIn.
- ▶ 2:20 Brett Berson Maybe we could start by actually talking about the Kafka story and how that kind of got off the ground when you were at LinkedIn, and then we'll use that to sort of talk about sort of the insight for Confluent. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:06 Neha Narkhede And then enabling, sort of, you know, merging both of these worlds to create, like, a, you know, a central nervous system for LinkedIn to tap into build any new application with just one API call. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:40 Neha Narkhede Yeah, we just thought, you know, we'll put it out in the world and tech companies like LinkedIn would use it, you know, Silicon Valley tech companies that are technology forward.
- ▶ 27:43 unnamed speaker Each one of us had our strengths and, uh, you know, each one of us, uh, were playing a specific role at LinkedIn in the Apache Kafka team. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:35 Neha Narkhede I had experience observing how the most technical companies, which were Khantun customers, still struggling with it, and reflecting on the fact that I also had experience from LinkedIn, observing how LinkedIn had built their systems,…
The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)
- ▶ 34:40 Ashley Kramer We get so much, our LinkedIn feed, like LinkedIn feed messages.
How to leverage intuition, customer support, and raw effort | Colin Zima (Omni & Looker)
- ▶ 1:01:22 Colin Zima Like I never wanted to be a LinkedIn influencer. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:24 Colin Zima If you go on LinkedIn, there's probably 500 employees, and you definitely have connections into a lot of them.
AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
- ▶ 55:05 Todd Jackson What do you post on LinkedIn?
The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
- ▶ 4:55 unnamed speaker Start running some LinkedIn or Facebook ads.
- ▶ 24:33 Alex Kracov I think something that's more in vogue now is a lot of this like influencer marketing that's like happening, especially on LinkedIn, where a lot of companies are spending money on different podcast brands or different people with big like… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:05 Alex Kracov Like LinkedIn, you know, has been a really good platform to drive growth for Doc and to build my own brand presence and things like that. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:56 Alex Kracov I filmed like a real commercial, which was really fun and like geo targeted the ads right on YouTube and LinkedIn and Twitter.
- ▶ 44:24 unnamed speaker He was like an early marketing exec at LinkedIn and Twilio and a bunch of other companies.
Lessons from Slack on decision making, product-led growth, and taking big swings | Noah Desai Weiss
- ▶ 1:07:28 Noah Desai Weiss It's the ones that there's already some ember of usage and traction within that organization.
Lessons in leadership | Scaling an org and tactical management advice | Jack Altman (Lattice)
- ▶ 30:26 Jack Altman Whether that's, you know, betting on a hire that like most, you know, VC board members are going to pull up their LinkedIn and say, that doesn't make sense to me.