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Srinivasan: LinkedIn is testing 15-minute product reviews instead of hour-long meetings
“I'm trying this thing. I don't know if it's going to work, but could we get to like, 15 minute reviews basically instead of an hour and see if that kind of Alleviate some of this.”
Meservey: LinkedIn offers huge distribution upside due to weak content competition
“Actually genuinely interesting and useful content on LinkedIn is very rare. So the ratio of your competitive set of interesting content versus how much time and attention people spend on there is excellent.”
Rachitsky: LinkedIn now drives more traffic to my newsletter than Twitter
“What's interesting I found recently is I get more traffic to my newsletter from LinkedIn than Twitter.”
Graham: A 'LinkedIn crush' means wanting the announcement, not the job
“I call it a LinkedIn crush where you're like really excited to post the job on LinkedIn, but you're deeply unexcited about doing the job.”
Repositioning Coradiant closed Fidelity, Salesforce, and LinkedIn in just three months
“Within three months, Fidelity, Salesforce, and LinkedIn had bought our biggest product just because I learned how to explain it to a different customer.”
LinkedIn created an internal AI Academy requiring mandatory training for all PMs
“So coming into this role in early to, we basically established an AI academy. Every PM had to go through training, just like we did mobile in 14, we kind of moved the whole organization to be mobile first.”
LinkedIn Shared Early AI R&D and Prompt Engineering Learnings With OpenAI and Microsoft
“In fact, a lot of things we've learned so much ahead of the market and even shared with OpenAI and shared with Microsoft”
Cohen: LinkedIn sees 140 hours of learning consumed per minute
“Today we had 140 hours of learning every minute on LinkedIn happening across the feed and LinkedIn Learning.”
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.”
Srinivasan: Hospitality workers have 70% of skills needed for customer service
“And you find a lot of people in hospitality have about 70% of the skills you need for customer service.”
Srinivasan: Tech industry hiring is down about 50% year-over-year
“This is all public. We published this, but if you look at tech, it's down about 50% year over year.”
Srinivasan: LinkedIn primarily infers user skills rather than relying on listings
“Certainly there's ways and the majority of ways that skills work is we infer skills”
Srinivasan: LinkedIn has nearly one billion users on its platform
“There's almost a billion people now on the platform, knowledge of those billion people in a way that people can find and see.”
Srinivasan: Senior executive hiring happens via direct outreach, not job applications
“You certainly have CPO jobs that are posted, but the difference often is job posts versus recruiting, and more and more senior roles are often recruited, and so we find that people will use LinkedIn in order to connect to a CPO, and many people who are senior …”
LinkedIn is testing an 'Open to Internal Work' feature for employees
“So we're trying to do open to internal work, where you can say, I'm actually at the point where I may want to next play internally in my role, and an internal recruiter can see you.”
Dunford: Twitter sharpens thinking via pushback, whereas LinkedIn offers superficial praise
“Like if I have a half-baked idea, I throw it out on LinkedIn and everyone goes, that's great, April. And that's it. Whereas if I have a half-baked idea and I throw it out on Twitter. People aren't shy about telling me I'm wrong. And I appreciate it because I k…”
Zeratsky disabled Instagram and Facebook and keeps social apps off his phone
“I, I'm not on Instagram and I'm not on Facebook. Like I was on both of those things and I left both of them. Like I disabled my accounts. I am on Twitter and LinkedIn, but I don't have either of those apps installed on my phone. I stay logged out of those site…”