2016
Microsoft's LinkedIn acquisition was for roughly $24 billion, a comparable deal size.
“LinkedIn was acquired for right around the same amount. If I remember 24 billion.”
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20 facts from 11 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2016
Salesforce was the other bidder for LinkedIn and filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft over that deal.
“the other bidder for LinkedIn was Salesforce Salesforce and then they filed an antitrust suit against, uh, Microsoft about it.”
2016
The hosts say LinkedIn now has over $16 billion in revenue, five times its revenue when Microsoft bought it eight years earlier.
“They did 16 billion plus in revenue today. They have 5X revenue since they were bought eight years ago.”
2026
A LinkedIn report from 2026 estimated that one third of Gen Z job seekers have fallen victim to an employment scam.
“A LinkedIn report from 2026 estimated that one third of Gen Z job seekers have actually fallen victim to some sort of an employment scam.”
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Rahul Vohra sold his earlier company, Reportive, to LinkedIn before founding Superhuman.
“So as you know, I sold my last company, Reportive, to LinkedIn.”
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Reid Hoffman is described as a founding board member of PayPal, a founder of LinkedIn and a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock.
“Reid Hoffman is a founding board member of PayPal, a founder of LinkedIn, a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock,”
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Reid Hoffman says Roblox is among the Greylock investments in networks that reshape social life, alongside his co-founding of LinkedIn.
“It's part of the reason I created, you know, LinkedIn with my co-founders, things that we've done and various other investments at Greylock, including like, for example, you know, like, take Roblox”
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Iavor Bojinov built an AI data analysis product at LinkedIn that in testing cut analysis time from weeks to about a day or two.
“when we tested it, it cut down analysis time that used to take weeks into maybe a day or two days.”
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A week or two after the launch event for Bojinov's LinkedIn AI product, no one was using it, which he attributes to lack of trust.
“And a week or two after it, like, no one was using it.”
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Iavor Bojinov says the failed adoption of his LinkedIn AI product helped motivate him to leave LinkedIn and join Harvard Business School.
“one of the things that motivated me to leave LinkedIn and join, uh, HBS was the fact that I'd build this”
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Bojinov says a study he did with LinkedIn showed experimentation can improve the final product by about 20% on key business indicators.
“in one study that I did with LinkedIn, we basically showed that when you leverage experimentation, you can improve your final product by about 20% when it comes to key business indicators.”
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People You May Know is one of LinkedIn's most important algorithms and recommends people users should connect with.
“one of the most important algorithms at LinkedIn is this people you may know algorithm, which basically recommends which people you should connect with.”
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LinkedIn measured the success of People You May Know by the share of invitations that were accepted.
“the way you measure the success of this algorithm is by basically counting or looking at the ratio of the number of people that were people invited to connect and what percentage of those actually accepted.”
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A study published in Science, co-authored by Bojinov, found LinkedIn's People You May Know algorithm affected the jobs people got a year later.
“in this study that was, uh, published in Science and I have a number of co-authors on it, is that a year down the line, this was actually impacting what jobs people were getting”
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LinkedIn allowed publication of the audit research and then changed its internal practices to track longer-term effects such as job applications.
“The LinkedIn sort of opened their door, they were transparent about this, they let us publish this research, and then they actually changed their internal practices.”
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Rana El Kaliouby says former PayPal founders and employees, known as the PayPal Mafia, went on to start companies including Tesla, LinkedIn and YouTube.
“These former founders and employees of PayPal went off to start companies like Tesla, LinkedIn, YouTube, and the list goes on and on.”
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Moura says some companies, including LinkedIn, are experimenting with seat-based pricing for agents.
“I mean, we're seeing some companies experimenting with that. I think LinkedIn is doing something, uh, in that in that lines.”
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Dohmke says LinkedIn and Minecraft are the other Microsoft acquisitions most often named alongside GitHub as successes.
“the other two that are always, you know, listed in a similar realm are LinkedIn”
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Satya Nadella says LinkedIn combined product manager, designer, front-end engineer and back-end engineer roles into full-stack builders with broader scope.
“So what we did is we sort of took those first four roles and combined them, in fact, increased scope and said, let's they're all full stack builders.”
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Reid Hoffman says that when LinkedIn started, many people thought a professional network could not exist.
“in the case of LinkedIn, everyone thought there was no such thing as a professional network.”
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