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LinkedIn CEO - LinkedIn and Microsoft: Changing the Way the World Works

28 points by uptown 10y ago

sickbeard 10y ago
1. People 2. Machine Learning 3. ???? 4. Profit! That's one hell of a 26 billion dollar bet with Microsoft fronting all the risks, because I'm sure MS could build a better LinkedIn from scratch if they created a department with a 26 billion dollar budget.
- eulji 10y ago
  1) Brand 2) Data 3) explain millions why to register to yet another service and why 4) make it popular
  - ilostmykeys 10y ago
    5) absorbing a would-be competitor :)
CephalopodMD 10y ago
"Given our ability to operate independently, little is expected to change: You'll have the same title, the same manager, and the same role you currently have. The one exception: For those members of the team whose jobs are entirely focused on maintaining LinkedIn's status as a publicly traded company, we'll be helping you find your next play." If that's what it sounds like, that's the most carefully worded version of "you're fired" I've ever seen.
- adrenalinelol 10y ago
  It'd kind of insulting to one's intelligence when a company says "This 20 billion dollars is just a passive investment guys... Nothing to see here!". I wonder if Nokia employees were told the same thing.
korginator 10y ago
From the article: "For LinkedIn, it was to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful, and for Microsoft it was to empower every individual and organization in the world to achieve more. " Microsoft's mission statement sounds like the same meaningless fluff they've been going on about since Nadella took charge. $26 billion is a nice amount, even for MS, it gives me pause to think about what they really intend to do and how they could abuse LinkedIn user information, a veritable treasure trove of deeply personal and real information and people networks.
BenoitP 10y ago
> combining these assets would be unique > LinkedIn's graph interwoven throughout Outlook, Calendar, Active Directory, Office, Windows, Skype, Dynamics, Cortana, Bing and more > LinkedIn’s full potential [...] within the enterprise [...] corporate directory, company news dissemination, collaboration This is about owning the environment around microsoft's products, adding another dimension to lock-in.
- basch 10y ago
  Yammer, Sharepoint, Delve

28 points by uptown 10y ago

1. People 2. Machine Learning 3. ???? 4. Profit! That's one hell of a 26 billion dollar bet with Microsoft fronting all the risks, because I'm sure MS could build a better LinkedIn from scratch if they created a department with a 26 billion dollar budget.

eulji 10y ago
1) Brand 2) Data 3) explain millions why to register to yet another service and why 4) make it popular
- ilostmykeys 10y ago
  5) absorbing a would-be competitor :)

CephalopodMD 10y ago

"Given our ability to operate independently, little is expected to change: You'll have the same title, the same manager, and the same role you currently have. The one exception: For those members of the team whose jobs are entirely focused on maintaining LinkedIn's status as a publicly traded company, we'll be helping you find your next play." If that's what it sounds like, that's the most carefully worded version of "you're fired" I've ever seen.

adrenalinelol 10y ago
It'd kind of insulting to one's intelligence when a company says "This 20 billion dollars is just a passive investment guys... Nothing to see here!". I wonder if Nokia employees were told the same thing.

korginator 10y ago

From the article: "For LinkedIn, it was to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful, and for Microsoft it was to empower every individual and organization in the world to achieve more. " Microsoft's mission statement sounds like the same meaningless fluff they've been going on about since Nadella took charge. $26 billion is a nice amount, even for MS, it gives me pause to think about what they really intend to do and how they could abuse LinkedIn user information, a veritable treasure trove of deeply personal and real information and people networks.

BenoitP 10y ago

> combining these assets would be unique > LinkedIn's graph interwoven throughout Outlook, Calendar, Active Directory, Office, Windows, Skype, Dynamics, Cortana, Bing and more > LinkedIn’s full potential [...] within the enterprise [...] corporate directory, company news dissemination, collaboration This is about owning the environment around microsoft's products, adding another dimension to lock-in.

basch 10y ago
Yammer, Sharepoint, Delve