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Tomer Cohen

12 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 8, 2024 by Tomer Cohen · said 4 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Sep 8, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Cohen: LinkedIn facilitates seven hires per minute
“We have seven hires per minute.”
Tomer Cohen Sep 8, 2024 ▶ 18:56 How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)
Sep 8, 2024 positive
Insight
Tomer Cohen: Product teams should set massive goals instead of under-promising
“I actually believe in, especially when it comes to products to really set ambitious goals, but then try to over deliver on them. Like really said, like, what are you trying to, almost like the opposite, right? People are like under, you know, underplaying it a…”
Tomer Cohen Sep 8, 2024 ▶ 13:10 How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)
Sep 8, 2024
Disclosure
LinkedIn tested its feed revamp on a secret two-million-user cohort
“So what I did was I carved out two million members. And I said, those are my members. I'm going to focus on building the few that mountain peak. I'm going to build for them full Liberty and doing whatever. It doesn't hurt numbers, giving the scale and really f…”
Tomer Cohen Sep 8, 2024 ▶ 22:35 How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)
Sep 8, 2024 positive
Insight
Generic product principles are useless without explicit sacrifices
“And the best principles have teeth. So saying that we should build a simple product for me is useless. Who doesn't want to build a simple product, but saying that I'm willing to sacrifice or trade off this. That's when you, that's where I get excited.”
Tomer Cohen Sep 8, 2024 ▶ 8:17 How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)
Sep 8, 2024 positive
Insight
Cohen: Alignment enables success; confusion leaves outcomes entirely to luck
“Now pulling through in the same direction doesn't mean you're going to be successful, but this gives you a chance of success and that confusion, the system only luck can save you.”
Tomer Cohen Sep 8, 2024 ▶ 4:05 How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)
Sep 8, 2024 positive
Insight
Product leaders must lead with strong beliefs, not evidence
“I tend to lead with beliefs versus evidence. I try to prove my beliefs with evidence, but I don't lead with evidence.”
Tomer Cohen Sep 8, 2024 ▶ 30:48 How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)
Sep 8, 2024
Insight
Cohen: Product turnarounds are harder internally than zero-to-one products
“What you find is it's actually most of the time it's internally harder to do because there's so much entrenched flows and processes and metrics that people are using on that on that specific area.”
Tomer Cohen Sep 8, 2024 ▶ 17:56 How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)
Sep 8, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cohen: LinkedIn had no AI product role before he led feed
“When it comes to the feed, I took the role of the AI product leader. It didn't exist in the company. There was no person that was ever from a product perspective, thinking about AI.”
Tomer Cohen Sep 8, 2024 ▶ 36:27 How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)
Dec 4, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cohen: Small, cross-trained mission pods will win future organizational races
“And an analogy I have in mind is kind of Navy SEALs. You know, you come to training, you, they're all kind of learning. They're cross trained across multiple areas. What they specialize in is the mission. And they operate in small pods and they're very nimble …”
Tomer Cohen Dec 4, 2025 ▶ 14:14 Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
Dec 4, 2025
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Cohen: 70% of job skill requirements will change by 2030
“When we look at, like, the skills required to do your job, By 2030, which is literally four years from now, sounds a long time, but 40 years, four years from now, it will change by 70%.”
Tomer Cohen Dec 4, 2025 ▶ 6:14 Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
Dec 4, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Cohen: LinkedIn replaced rigid PM trios with quarterly builder pods
“One of the things we've done as an example, we kind of started to do the idea of pods. We're no longer large teams. We assemble a team, ideally a full stack builder is coming together. And, you know, it's less about, can I have an engineer design PM working to…”
Tomer Cohen Dec 4, 2025 ▶ 14:56 Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
Dec 4, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Cohen: LinkedIn now evaluates AI fluency in hiring and performance reviews
“So when we hire right now, we look for those, and then this upcoming cycle, we do a biannual. It's, that's going to be part of the performance evaluation piece, and we announced it to everybody”
Tomer Cohen Dec 4, 2025 ▶ 45:07 Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
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