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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where LinkedIn comes up
From Pivot Hell To $1.4 Billion Unicorn · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:01 James Hawkins And look, I can remember it feeling weird, like on LinkedIn, for example, I would talk about like, hey, this is what we're up to, and it would be like one week, it was like some dev tool, the next week it's a CRM thing, um,
- ▶ 21:38 James Hawkins And so I'm just like sending emails and LinkedIn messages into the ether basically.
The Startup Playbook for Hiring Your First Engineers and AEs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:41 David Paffenholz If you're an engineer yourself, you might have received the same LinkedIn DMs, emails, and more.
- ▶ 7:23 David Paffenholz LinkedIn, as well as any other job boards.
- ▶ 8:57 David Paffenholz Uh, that's where you go to platforms like LinkedIn recruiter or juice box to help find top candidates for your role. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:57 David Paffenholz Uh, that's where you go to platforms like LinkedIn recruiter or juice box to help find top candidates for your role.
- ▶ 13:34 David Paffenholz So think emails plus LinkedIn steps. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:37 David Paffenholz In other cases, the Twitter strategy sometimes goes in that direction because, uh, even if it's a Twitter profile you recognize, it might not be like a LinkedIn profile that you would click into.
- ▶ 35:02 David Paffenholz I guess apart from like a Twitter, it's probably going to be on LinkedIn, but the advantage of email is that you're not just sending a single message. 4 times in the scene
How This 25-Year-Old Built A $675M Legal AI Startup (With No Legal Experience) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:50 Max Junestrand I had this good hack on LinkedIn.
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:24 Dylan Field So folks that I had either interned with, for example, I interned at Flipboard, LinkedIn, uh, O'Reilly Media.
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:16 Chas Englander This thing will go off and look at their LinkedIn and their background, and then look at like comparable companies on Crunchbase or S&P and so on, and kind of produce this one pager that you would probably go and do as a human as your…
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:55 Aravind Srinivas So when we saw that for the relational database searches like Twitter, LinkedIn, GitHub, we knew that we had like, there was something magical about combining large language models in search.
- ▶ 19:08 Aravind Srinivas You can, like, for example, let's say you're hosting a Y Combinator event, and you say, I only want to accept Stanford dropouts, and it can go through the entire list of people who applied, and just filter based on who's, you know, to…
- ▶ 42:14 Aravind Srinivas You know, there are a lot of people who don't use Twitter or LinkedIn, and, and, and they're all, like, they all exist, we just are living in a bubble here.
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:35 unnamed speaker And like you work at something, uh, maybe at night, you know, after work, you can't really like go out on LinkedIn and advertise it because like your boss would see it.
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:27 Satya Nadella Like, you know, at LinkedIn, I think they took multiple of these functions, uh, the design function, the front end engineer function, the product function, put them all together and said, we're going to have full stack builders.
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:47 Aravind Srinivas Like, if coders could go and search about repos or LinkedIn, if you could, like, 2 times in the scene
The Right (And Wrong) Way To Spend Money At Your Startup · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:09 Brad Flora I think, I think there's also some, like, fake it till you make it type thinking where, hey, um, oh, those people, I read about them raising a Series A in TechCrunch, and let me go on LinkedIn,
Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:43 Rujul Zaparde Try to sell them completely cold, like through cold LinkedIn outreach or whatever, but not referrals, not friends, not anyone we know, because if you can get 10 different people and 10 different companies in the world to, you know, take… 2 times in the scene