Jeff Weiner gave up his job as the chief executive of LinkedIn, a Microsoft company, earlier this week. He will occupy the office of the executive chairman. I have known Jeff in a professional capacity for a while — he was the guy leading some interesting changes at Yahoo, back when Yahoo was a thing. As someone who … Continue reading Jeff Weiner, the Next Disney CEO?
Fellow photography lover, Kevin Scott, is the new chief technology officer of Microsoft. He comes to Microsoft after spending time at AdMob, Google and LinkedIn. All around great guy! Made with Lecia SL and Leica f2/50mm Summicron APO.
Sean Gourley, who cofounded Quid is one of my favorite people and we often catch up for a coffee and an unstructured conversations about virtually anything, though often it is about data and its role in our contemporary lives. Yesterday, however we met to commiserate about the respective spankings our cricket teams received at the … Continue reading LinkedIn & Zynga & a tale of two hired guns
It has been a few days since I had a chance to sit and read the web — blame it on the slower 3G and WiFi speeds one tends to encounter when traveling. Nevertheless, here are some that are worth reading today. Oakland As are money balling again. [Fangraphs] 8 steps for engineering leaders to … Continue reading What I am reading today
Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter Evan Spiegel, CEO, SnapChat Jeff Weiner, CEO LinkedIn. Continue reading These three guys are not afraid of Facebook
Last week I shared a powerpoint presentation to accompany my blog post, Evolution of a founder, that chronicled my journey as a startup founder and lessons I made and mistakes that defined my thinking. The blog post itself was shared extensively on the social media. But it was Slideshare that made it massive. Here is the report card
It is great to get the stats with so much meaning and I believe LinkedIn made a very smart decision when they picked up this company, especially as they try to focus hard on content.
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Looks like my decision to opt out of LinkedIn was well timed. Apparently the work-focused social network collects data from your iPhone’s calendar and transmits it in plain text. Their response has been somewhat casual, I believe. Continue reading LinkedIn’s very bad day
I signed up for LinkedIn a long time ago. I did so, because everyone kept sending me requests and well, my boss at the time wanted me to write about it. I didn’t find it very useful. That was a lifetime ago. I don’t find it useful now. Infact, I rarely visit the website. There … Continue reading LinkedIn: You Are Fired.
