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Upgrading a NetGear Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ to 6TB
Recently, I’ve been evaluating different solutions for upgrading my home storage solution for backup and file storage. A couple of years ago, I decided to purchase an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+, which...
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LinkedIn for Blackberry: Get It Now
I know this is my personal blog, but sometimes launches are big enough that I feel compelled to announce them here as well. LinkedIn Blog: LinkedIn for Blackberry: Anytime, Anywhere You can download it...
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Tweets: LinkedIn, Twitter & Lists
Today I had the privilege of taking the wraps of a feature enhancement that my team has been working on for the past few weeks: the new version of Tweets. LinkedIn Blog: Find and Follow Your LinkedIn...
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2010 Pinewood 8th Grade Graduation Speech
Today, at 6pm, I was invited to Pinewood in Los Altos Hills to give the commencement speech at their 8th Grade graduation. I graduated from Pinewood junior high school in 1987, so it was somewhat of...
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Why T-Shirts Matter
During my tenure at LinkedIn, I’ve held a wide variety of roles and responsibilities within the company. Some are fairly public (as described on my LinkedIn profile). Others are the the type that...
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Adam Nash is Metro Man
I got this sent to me in email today. It seems to have become a running joke among a few of my fellow LinkedIn employees. Two thoughts immediately come to mind: Do I need to change my official...
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What I Would Do with the Coke Freestyle
One of the best features of the new building that LinkedIn opened up at 2051 Stierlin Court in Mountain View is the new Coca-Cola Freestyle. The Freestyle is a modern soda fountain wrapped in a vending...
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Playing “Where’s Waldo” with the LinkedIn 100 Million Photo
Yesterday, LinkedIn celebrated reaching 100 million members… an amazing milestone. As part of the celebration, the whole team in Mountain View gathered for a photo outside of the main building: Now the...
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Easter Egg: The LinkedIn Wizard Goes Web-Wide
For some reason, I *love* Easter Eggs. No, I don’t mean the candy colored eggs that people make and roll to celebrate the holiday. Easter eggs are the playful name for hidden features, games, and...
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LinkedIn for Android: The T-Shirt
Today was a banner day for the LinkedIn Mobile team, with the big launch of LinkedIn for Android v1.0. The application was built from the ground up to be the best mobile experience for LinkedIn on...
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Personal Finance for Engineers
Last Friday, LinkedIn had it’s monthly “InDay”, an event where the company encourages employees to pursue research, ideas & interests outside of their day-to-day responsibilities. (This is the same...
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Why LinkedIn Hackdays Work
Two weeks ago, we celebrated yet another great Hackday judging event at LinkedIn. For the April 15th Hackday, over 50 employees submitted a combined total of 29 projects for the contest. We saw...
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LinkedIn Hackday Video
LinkedIn decided to syndicate my previous post on LinkedIn Hackdays. LinkedIn Blog: 10 Ways to Make Hackdays Work As part of the post, they published this wonderful video montage about LinkedIn...
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How to Make a Great T-Shirt: Metrics
This is the third post in my series on “How to Make a Great Tech T-Shirt“. Define Success to Achieve Success On the consumer web, product managers succeed and fail based on their ability to define,...
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‘Twas The Night Before Hackday
A quick parody of a classic to celebrate the LinkedIn Hackday tomorrow (July 15th). Apologies in advance for the inside jokes / names. It may not make complete sense to those of you who are not...
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RIP Resume. Apply with LinkedIn is now Live.
Just a quick blog post tonight, after a full day of meetings explaining the new Apply with LinkedIn plug-in that we launched today. Jon Seitel put up a great blog post on LinkedIn about the feature....
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LinkedIn as a Platform
From the first conversations that I had with Reid Hoffman about LinkedIn, what was striking was the amazing clarity about how value is created by social web properties. Those conversations turned into...
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Designers: Getting the Most Out of Your Product Manager
I gave a lighthearted talk yesterday at the LinkedIn User Experience team’s all hands meeting. I called it “Getting the Most Out of Your Product Manager”, and it was intended to talk from the...
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Building LinkedIn in LEGO
I’m pleased to announce that a fairly large side project that I’ve been working on for the past two months is now complete. The “LinkedIn in LEGO” sculpture is now ready for display in the LinkedIn...
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LinkedIn in LEGO: Q&A
Ever since I began showing the LinkedIn in LEGO sculpture, I’ve been shocked with how many questions people have about it. There is definitely something about seeing a LEGO sculpture of this size in...
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Pinterest & LinkedIn: Identity of Taste vs. Expertise
It’s hard to go three feet in Silicon Valley these days without someone commenting on the phenomenal engagement and growth being seen from Pinterest and other curation-based social platforms. What’s a...
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How to Make Great Green Beer for St. Patrick’s Day
You learn a lot of things at a hypergrowth startup, mostly by doing. For some reason, I love St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick’s Day wasnt always a big event at LinkedIn, at least until we figured out...
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Product Leaders: User Acquisition Series
I can be pedantic about user acquisition. The truth is that consumer web and mobile applications are under increasing pressure to demonstrate explosive exponential traction. Building a great product...
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User Acquisition: The Five Sources of Traffic
This is the first post in a three post series on user acquisition. The topic of this blog post may seem simplistic to those of you who have been in the trenches, working hard to grow visits and...
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User Acquisition: Viral Factor Basics
This is the second post in a three post series on user acquisition. In the first post in this series, we covered the basics of the five sources of traffic to a web-based product. This next post covers...
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New User Experience, Engagement & Virality
One of the great things about working at Greylock is meeting with entrepreneurs and discussing product strategies for virality and self-distribution. Recently, I’ve been struck with how many of these...
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The Future of Social Networking at Singularity U
Last week, I was asked to give a guest lecture at Singularity University on the topic “The Future of Social Networking“ To frame the discussion, I chose to walk through the following structure: Web 1.0...
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The Millennial Definition of Success
Wealthfront Team, June 2014 It’s hard to believe in 2014, but when I first considered joining LinkedIn in 2007, most of my colleagues had trouble seeing the value in a platform built on top of what...
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Spend Time Thinking About The People Who Don’t Use Your Product
This is an extension to my original three post series on user acquisition. Today, AirBnB announced that it had reached a settlement with the city of San Francisco on how to effectively register and...
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Solve the Product Maze Backwards
As the father of young children, I can tell you that there is a special place in my heart for restaurants that provide puzzles and crayons for small children to pass the time. On a recent trip out to...
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