LinkedIn

“He invested in LinkedIn. He invested in Facebook. He invested in Pandora. He personally returned two and a half billion dollars to Greylock's funds.”

“I believe that the first 150 hires will make or break your business. They are your cultural co-founders, and it's up to you, the founder, to get everyone right.”

“And if we followed their feedback, LinkedIn would not be where it is today. We had to steer away from a bunch of passionate users who told us very explicitly that we were fools for not following their advice.”

“It's essential to seek out and listen to user feedback, but the caveat is, you have to figure out which users to listen to. You're going to have different kinds of users giving you feedback, and some of it will take you in the wrong direction. So you need to e…”

“The biggest leaps you ever get is when you're small. And another way of saying it is your product changes less the bigger you get, because there's bigger, more customers, more blowback, more systems, more legacy. The most innovative leaps you'll ever make, oft…”

“All startups go through a valley of the shadow. All of them, PayPal, LinkedIn, things that I've done personally, things that I've invested in, Facebook, Airbnb, all have valleys of the shadow where you're like, why did we think this was a good idea?”

“I mean, LinkedIn was years before it had a backup database. Now, we had backup data that we could reload so it could come back in a day or two, but like the failover system, that was probably six years in.”

“I'd argue these common spaces are just as vital to Silicon Valley as the headquarters of Facebook, Google, or LinkedIn.”

“At the time, potential Series A investors wanted to see a business model that showed how LinkedIn would get to profitability. I told potential investors that we weren't going to generate any revenue until after the next round of financing, and that therefore i…”

“So I've looked at M&A as, at the meta level, it needs to do two things. One is it needs to be something that we can clearly quote, unquote, say it fits our mission. It fits our identity. Oh, we can be a better owner, which is sort of a very narrow way to talk …”

“Hamas videoed all of this and posted it in social media. So it was everywhere. It was on Twitter. It was on LinkedIn.”

“I've put out resources on my Instagram, on our LinkedIn channel, on all our social media, on the Lubetzky Family Foundation website. There's a lot of language that people can feel free to use.”

“This is a job where you can march up into the middle class. Maybe for the first time, we're kind of starting kids out at the same place. And whether you are a young girl living in a homeless shelter in Harlem, Or a girl going to the best private school in New …”

“Meanwhile, LinkedIn is acting like Facebook in 2015, where on LinkedIn, if you post about floral arrangements, or why you're a good option for a corporate floral, or just a one-off Valentine's Day thing, it is more likely that you will get organic reach. On Li…”

“So we capped the score at 500. After that, the score remained fixed, and you got stuck with a boring old plus sign. 500 plus.”

“I believe that every founder of an online community has a responsibility to shape the culture from day one, because the tone you set is the tone you're going to keep. Your first users and the tone of their first interactions will set the norms for the entire c…”

“It's important to note, in the early days of LinkedIn, some of our initial superfans, the LinkedIn Open Networkers, or Lions, contributed real value, but also created a negative spam-like culture in corners of the platform. No matter how enthusiastic those use…”

“What I did is I said, I had this Kind of clever idea, which was, I will accept every speaking engagement for the next six weeks, wherever they take me, and whatever the level is”

“Completely unintentionally, and obviously smart enough to not be doing it in any oblique, direct way, but essentially undermining Dan because I wasn't allowing those neural Pathways to reconnect. And so, and that's part of the reason I think, you know, we didn…”

“When Jeff Wiener came into the LinkedIn role, he talks about meeting with all 330 team members and really going on a listening tour.”

“Jeff was focused on education. So bought Linda. At that point, we'd already had enough of established relationship that I was like, look, this isn't the thing I would choose to do, but if this is yours, This is the thing that is too often under described in MB…”

“You've got entry level, 150,000 dollar jobs for prompt engineers. You know, littering the LinkedIn landscape.”

“Horizontal marketplaces like LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter and so on, are not necessarily customized for healthcare. The reason that matters is there's, healthcare is a regulated industry. You have to, you know, the healthcare workers have licenses and certificati…”

“One of the most beautiful things that I saw was when I scrolled through my LinkedIn page and then I saw a Bill Gates playing it.”

“And then I actually realized it's good for a business. Cause you know, who's watching these videos? CMOs, right? And they're really important people to reach, and so you go into a meeting with the CMO, and you're like, hey, you know, I think you should adverti…”

“People are no longer sort of attracted to these, you know, bland corporate brands and the faces behind these companies. I mean, thanks to LinkedIn and things like that are becoming more important than the brands themselves.”

“So in 2004, when I went to Shenzhen there were three copies of LinkedIn. There were such exact copies in Chinese. I could fill out a profile. And I don't speak any Chinese.”