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Jeff Weiner

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first: 2015-09-08
most recent: 2015-09-08
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I think the most interesting things are the medical applications. They're going to take the longest because you have to go through this rather arduous process of getting regulatory approval, but that's where the life-changing stuff. I mean, if you talk about what really powerfully can you do on the body. Saving lives has got to be right near the top. So stuff in diabetes and chronic case management, stuff detecting a heart attack before you have one. That stuff is where the really profound change.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, embedded is one. Let's start with the ears for a sec, though. I think that's a really unique place because you actually can have something discrete there. So Motorola has a product called the hint, which is essentially one of those Bluetooth earpieces, but they tried to do two things, make it smaller so you don't look like a, you know, jerk walking down the street talking to yourself, and then also add some intelligence so it's not just carrying your call and answering the phone, but it's giving you some intelligence. I think if they could tell me, oh, I'm talking to Kara, you know, don't make sports metaphors while we're having this discussion, that could be useful.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the notion of eyewear as a place to get information probably has a place. It's probably somewhat limited, I think, for factory workers. It's excellent. I think there might be a place for drivers. Audi tested this thing. Sorry, BMW group with Mini tested this concept, you know, where when you're driving, you would get extra information, augmented reality. I think there's an opportunity there. I think certainly for gaming virtual reality, there's a big thing. I think walking in the street, having a conversation, no offense to certain people who like to wear glasses that creates some distance between them and the people they're talking to. But I think the average person doesn't want that in a conversation.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that's one definite possibility is that we're going to have a lot more sensors stuck to our body near our body, in our cars, and they don't all need a screen. They don't all need a processor. Some will. And I think the wrist is a logical place to put some computing once we figure out what it's good at.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, we're going to be talking to them. We're going to be talking to companies like ATT that are trying to say, hey, these would be much better if they had another cellular modem in there. I'm not sure that's the answer, but it's an interesting question. You know, a lot of the devices today require you to have your phone with you. Is it better if it doesn't? Would you like your Apple Watch more if you could leave your phone at home? You can do that, but there's trade-offs. Battery life gets even worse. You know, if you have to cram a whole cell phone's technology into there. So there's a lot of needed experimentation. And I think the other thing that we haven't yet gotten to is where these sensors can live on their own. Right now, everything has to be its own unique device, but a lot of people are realizing maybe it's just the sensor that needs to be there. Maybe you don't even need wearable, if you will. You just need the sensor to know how many steps you're taking and if you want to look at a screen, that's what your phone's good at.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think we're in that early stage where people try and take the last technology and graft it into a new area. The first smartphones were basically a desktop computer, you know, strapped to a phone. These are a phone crammed onto your wrist, or in the case of something like Fitbit, it's one or two pieces of data. I think we still haven't figured out what the wrist is uniquely useful for.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think we're in one big beta test, really. I think we're still trying to figure out the industry is trying to figure out what these are good for. And with every early adopter product, there's a group of people that are willing to try that out that want the latest and greatest and are willing to basically figure out whether we've found something interesting. And I don't think we're quite there yet.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I don't know a lot about the apps that big corporations use because, as you know, I've always been a more consumer oriented writer but I do think just logically if you're taking in a lot of younger employees millennials digital natives and you want them to feel comfortable you're not a we already know you're not giving them a blackberry you're going to give them an iPhone or an Android or something you're not giving them a inch and a half thick 18 pound Dell laptop, which 10 years ago you would have gotten, you're going to be allowed to use your MacBook Air or whatever you prefer. And the same thing will be true with software used within companies. I think it has to emulate the most successful consumer software and mobile software.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, you're absolutely right, Kara. I think there's, and we should note that Slack is on Android, it's on iOS, I get Slack notifications on my Apple watch. In the 10 years ago, companies bought things and they stayed within the walls of the companies and they were built for being within the walls of the companies. And I think your point is oddly well taken. These apps are... With a consumer feel and a consumer point of view. And I think people are, you know, they might be using Snapchat or Facebook or something one minute. They use Slack. Isn't that different? And I think that's a key part of this.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, here's a reason So, here's a reason Dennis M, in my experience, the biggest resistance to switching from word were the secretaries who needed it on their resume. Is that what's stopping everything, Wal?”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It didn't suck completely. They put up online versions of Word and Excel and PowerPoint. And you can actually do collaborative editing with them. They're free. You can store your stuff in OneDrive, which is their competitor to Google Drive. But they never talk about it. They never publicize it. I think I wrote a review of it. And obviously a few other people did, but I don't think most people know this exists. It's also true that the latest versions of Word and PowerPoint on your computer, whether it's Mac or PC, also allow collaborative editing, at least in some limited fashion. So it's not that Microsoft doesn't have this stuff that's just that...”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so first of all, it is true that Google docs, which is kind of has, except for email, the same functional pieces as Microsoft Office. It has a WordPressor, it has a spreadsheet, it has a presentation app, none of them have as many features as Microsoft Office, but that's kind of deliberate. I don't think Google is trying to match every feature. I know lots of young people and others who use it and don't miss the more sophisticated features that are in at least the WordPress or at least Word.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right now, I would want to take a page out of the code.org playbook and the way the Partuvies are working on establishing programming as being taught in every school in the country. I'd want to do the same thing for compassion.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I didn't think of myself as running anything per se. I certainly didn't aspire to be a CEO. I've never been title driven. I've for the most part been purpose driven and going all the way back to when I was younger and probably 16, 17, thinking about what it would take to help improve and reform education, I've been very fortunate. I've had some understanding of what it was that I wanted to do, and that's helped guide me. But I remember having, believe it or not, an argument. I mean, it was a silly argument, but my dad and I had an argument after I left Yahoo about what I was going to do next. And he was saying, I know what you're going to do next. I said, what? He said, you're going to end up being a CEO. And I said, no, I don't want to be a CEO. He said, you'll see a CEO. You're harder than you. Well, wait, this went back and forth for like minutes. He's like, you're going to be. I was like, I don't want to be. My mom was like, would the two of you stop it? This is a ridiculous conversation.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was reading my dad's trade magazines from, he worked at CBS Variety in Hollywood Reporters. I thought you were. He was a lot younger than 12. We were talking ratings.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We have a big presence in the valley. So we're bimodal in that respect. We've got a presence in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and here in San Francisco and a big presence in both. And I think that's where the talent is. You don't want to necessarily limit yourself to one place or the other.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We have a huge presence here already. We already have two buildings. We're growing at a pace where we're going to need additional space.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we're very much going to be a part of the city. Yeah, one of the things that we were thinking through is how we can establish an opportunity center on the ground floor so that people want to come in, you can think of it like a modern day.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I don't know if that froth so much as a potential lack of perspective just by virtue of being in the same place, having the same conversations, being around the same people. And I think to the credit of a number of the founders and CEOs and leadership teams of these companies that we were just talking about, these companies now have massively global footprints and presence. And I think they do have an understanding of what it takes to grow and serve a global audience. And I do think they're getting out there. And I do think they're increasingly thinking about the implications that their companies are having by virtue of achieving the scale that they're achieving. Now that said, you take a city like San Francisco, and I'm surprised there hasn't been more research done on the implications of what's going on in terms of infrastructure, in terms of housing, in terms of people who are necessary to support a vibrant, dynamic.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Highly sustainable and massively scalable and massively disruptive. So I think that's one interesting trend. I think another is the byproduct of having a number of these companies in one locality. And there's clearly a supply demand imbalance that's occurring on multiple fronts. With regard to talent, there's not enough technology talent to go around. And we're seeing a skills gap, not just in Silicon Valley, but on a much broader basis given a demand for that kind of talent. And I think that has major implications. And, you know, there's secular shifts that need to take place. And in terms of educating people on a generational basis so they can study programming, I think in real time, we need to do a better job of equipping people, workers today with the skills they need.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“From a positive perspective, you've got the rise of a number of companies that, unlike 2000 and the late 90s, I think these companies are going to be around for a while. I think they're delivering serious value. I think they're achieving scale that was previously unimaginable. Facebook, you mentioned earlier, achieving a billion daily active uniques. You know, you've got Airbnb, you've got Pinterest, just all these really interesting companies. Uber, which has the potential to completely alter infrastructure within cities. There's a lot of interesting companies and where they could take those companies.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're focused on economic opportunity. We're focused on job creation. We're focused on connecting people to opportunities they wouldn't have otherwise. That's a very different context.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's not easy. And we were very thoughtful about this. We weren't kidding ourselves before we entered. And though we could not be stronger supporters of freedom of speech and believe very strongly in the ability for people to be able to express themselves, we also recognize the value we can create in China for our Chinese members, for potential Chinese members. The value we can create on a global basis by connecting Chinese members to people around the world, given the size of the Chinese economy. And in order for us to be able to scale and create value for those members so that they can pursue the kinds of lives that they want to pursue, you've got to comply with the law in these markets.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We've made one big compromise, and that's this notion of at times, and thankfully, it's happened very infrequently, but having to alert a member that content that exists on their profile needs to be removed, changed”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We doubled that. And today we're north of 11 million. So we launched last February. And that's on the extension of our global platform in China, simplified Chinese. Derek and team also have recently launched a standalone mobile-only app which started from scratch. They were able to go from a standing start to launch within roughly four months or less. And that's been really impressive to watch.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so we're off to a pretty good start. It's a challenging environment and market for Western company. It's incredibly competitive, very intense competitively. And we were very fortunate to find excellent partners in CBC and Sequoia. We found almost the perfect fit in terms of the person running China for us, Derek Shen, who heads up the joint venture. He built a very impressive team in a short period of time. And we're generating good traction. It's still very early days. And, you know, we're not kidding ourselves about the challenges ahead. But when we first launched, we had been operating in English in China for the better part of 10, 10 years or so. And we were able to grow from 4 million to 8 million members in roughly a year's time less than.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is, absolutely, and I think it's a question whether people are consuming them. My kid is definitely consuming that content right there, which is interesting. He knew something about the presidential elections, which was shocking to me because he mostly knows about nothing at all. I said, where did you get that? And he said on the Daily Mail on Snapchat, and I was horrified. On the Daily Mail channel on Snapchat? Yes. And I was like, oh, such a bad choice. You know, I mean, I was like, all right, but you know, he had knowledge and yet I wasn't liking that. But still, at the same time, he was consuming knowledge, which is interesting. So I want to do a couple more things before we finish.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, there's Snapchat, the telling of the story himself and connecting with his friends. Then there's Snapchat in terms of our story and the way in which they're collectively telling stories in that narrative across a gigantic audience. And what's interesting is, you know, the term MSO has always stood for multiple system operator and those are the traditional cable companies that bring cable to tens of millions of homes. With Snapchat, you've got the rise of MSO where it's a mobile system operator. And it was really interesting to see Evans' initial vision there. And bringing content, introducing content into that story narrative. It's really interesting”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, exactly. A lot of vine watching, a lot of now Snapchat. I have a 13-year-old boy, and all he does is Snapchat girl. So that's what he does all day long. And that's entertainment to him. It's a big joke, ha ha, he's on Snapchat, but that's really Snapchat.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sample size of one. I can't stand. I think live sporing events, I think anything that brings a community of people around their television sets.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And leave it to Reed to be ahead of the entire game. And it's been fascinating to watch as a consumer, I think it's fantastic. I mean, limitless choice on demand at any time.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, if you're talking about distribution, you're talking about television networks, you're talking about the cable model in particular, I think the cable networks who are generating dual revenue streams from both advertising and cable fees, I think that's going to go through some pretty dramatic transition. I think you're starting to see that right now, certainly on Wall Street, there's some talk about over-the-top and people starting to leave their cable packages. The rise of Netflix has been extraordinary.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“that can't necessarily be captured in algorithm, not yet. I mean, with the rise of artificial intelligence, we'll see those days may be coming. But these things, Kara, they don't need to be mutually exclusive. If you can leverage the best of machine learning to provide editors a pool of content that they can then pick from, that could be one way to gain an advantage.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That will suggest this content should be breaking news. Yeah, he was an editor at Fortune. He was at Wired. He's amazing at what he does. And that team, the digest that they're capable of creating, I would stack that up against a machine-generated digest any given day because there's elements of that. There's taste that's involved.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, if all you're doing is curating, and I think that's the case, I think Jonah got this right very early on with the Huffington Post. And then again at BuzzFe And you could see in those early days at Huff Poe, he was one of the earliest to recognize that these three approaches to relevancy don't need to be mutually exclusive. And I think the digital universe has very quickly tried to catch up. And we now, you know, at LinkedIn, we've taken an approach that leverages all three from day one. That's why I'm a huge advocate of the importance. Well, not just that, Dan Roth and his team. We have a small team of editors. Right.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Especially in a world of information overload. And in my opinion, the three drivers of relevancy are largely machine learning, which is data optimization, and that was the Google model, the search operating system, for lack of better term. Social cues, viral loops, what your friends think, what they're commenting on, what they're liking, what they're sharing. That's a social operating system. And then the media operating system, which is curated. And you have editors and you have influential people saying this is of interest, this is something that's relevant. You should be reading. Well, I think curation matters.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I think there's a few different ways to think about it. One is in terms of the distribution, the other is in terms of the relevancy. From a distribution perspective, we've certainly seen massive fragmentation to some extent away from visiting publisher sites or watching certain networks to trying to consume that kind of content on a complete ad hoc basis. So you want an article, you'll be able to get an article. You want a specific episode of something. You'll be able to get the specific episode. And increasingly that kind of content is being distributed through search, through social platforms. And there's less of that destination in terms of visiting a publisher as a destination. And I think that dynamic is going to continue. I think that's a byproduct of the way relevancy has evolved over time. And I think in the digital universe, you have three drivers of relevancy. If it's not relevant, people aren't going to be interested in it.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Creates a better community. 380 million members today On our way, you know, there's 780 million professionals or knowledge workers in the world, 3 billion people in the global workforce. And as long as we continue to be thoughtful about the way we scale, I think there's greater value generated for the entire ecosystem with scale.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Actually, what we want is to connect those people to opportunity. And if they're trying to get better at their jobs and we can help, that's good. And if they get a new job, that's even better. If they're looking for work, that's fantastic.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a really important distinction between trying to satisfy a business objective like increasing engagement and understanding who you're trying to create value for and creating that value for them. And I think historically we were too focused on trying to achieve certain business objectives with regard to member growth or engagement. And those can be proxies for value that you're creating, but I think they should be outputs. I think they should be ways of measuring the extent to which you're creating value. And so, you know, we were just talking about LinkedIn and our media offerings, and those are all oriented around the value proposition of staying informed through professional news and knowledge. And so if we're delivering that, we may see greater engagement. You may see greater time spent.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we're actually trying to deliver against value propositions. And you may say, yeah, yeah, that's going to be a bunch of business speak, but I think there's a really important business speaker. I hear the words.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Virtually the vast majority of those are professionally relevant. Which is going to enable you to go into a specific presentation and highlight the most insightful parts of that presentation so you don't have to sift through all of it. And then you can create your own repositories or compendiums of knowledge, and then you associate your identity with that.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but it's continuing education, but we'll also work with third parties too. This part of what we do will also be a platform. But Linda does what they do so well. We thought it was a fantastic fit. And then there's SlideShare. You were talking about acquisitions. You mentioned Linda Pulse, Pulse the Newsreader, Linda in terms of skills acquisition. SlideShare is a huge knowledge repository. So we have roughly 19 million presentations in videos.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, if you think about what it's about, and if you think about a continuum, there's news, there's information, there's knowledge, which is information with greater context, and ultimately there's the acquisition of skills. When I say ultimately, if you're going along a traditional information retrieval continuum, the ultimate goal would be wisdom. But somewhere along the continuum between information, knowledge, potentially understanding wisdom is the acquisition of skills. And historically, we've talked about having access to data that would enable us to understand what skills you have, what opportunities you're interested in, the size of the gap, and then suggest that you acquire certain skills. And with the acquisition of Linda, we're now in a position where we not only understand what skills you need, but we can also help provide you the coursework to acquire that skill. And we don't believe we're going to be able to provide every single course to every single skill.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not just self-help or growth books development books Yeah, and there's increasing demand for this because people have access to it and people are willing to share more. And now you're able to connect directly with these folks.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So back to the media discussion, the publishing platform and influencer specifically really demonstrated to us the demand for this.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who I'm talking to. Hello. I can't read anymore, by the way. Technology, what is it? A platform, it's a platform. Platform. It's a platform sharing platform. It's a platform that connects professionals first and foremost. And then what you can do by virtue of those connections and by virtue of people establishing who they are professionally, the profile. Those are the two keys.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I like listening to everything. I like listening. I like podcasts too, by the way. This is Jeff Wiener who I'm talking to. Hello. I can't read anymore, by the way. I can read in small bits. We can talk about the changing content space. We're talking about Jeff Wiener, who's CEO of LinkedIn and also someone I've known for a long time in Silicon Valley about where things are going at LinkedIn and also media, which is one of his greatest interests. He has turned LinkedIn in many ways into a media company. Do you consider it a media company or technology? What is it? A platform?”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they've generated millions of people following them. And this is very consistent with what we're trying to accomplish. That's the publishing platform, which has now been opened up to well north of 200 million people, over a million people on a unique basis, a million individual posters of content on LinkedIn.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And these were people who had a lot of experience, a lot of wisdom to share, who were very interested in sharing it. And, you know, at this point, we've got influencers like Richard Branson or Jack Welch, Jim Kim. We've got prime ministers. It's amazing Arianna Huffington, Angela Arons. And these folks are sharing content, Bill Gates. They're sharing posts and things that they've learned about becoming entrepreneurs, running companies, leading companies, the most valuable lessons that they've learned. Some of these posts are read over a million times.”
2015-09-08 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT