LinkedIn just isn't for Jacques, it's not actually ripe for disruption. People like to condemn LinkedIn's tactics for engagement, and devoted indie + company sa

LinkedIn just isn't for Jacques, it's not actually ripe for disruption. People like to condemn LinkedIn's tactics for engagement, and devoted indie + company salarymen like to condemn it for being a useless spammy recruiter hell. But, end of the day, LinkedIn is still a beast, has a tremendous network effect to defeat, and actually works for its millions of users: * many developers actually like to get the various recruiter and big co contacts * for business guys, LinkedIn actually works to make credible cold contacts with people who would be interested in doing business * the emails that tell you when your friend switches jobs are useful and important in the same way Facebook's birthday reminders are * LinkedIn is doing a decent job further managing the product - it has gotten more useful over the years So what if you think endorsements are lame and sometimes LinkedIn accidentally tells you a profile update means a new job, when it doesn't. So what if you are a special snowflake who, with hundreds of thousands of others, doesn't find LinkedIn useful, and too aggressive? It's those very engagement tactics that make sure the network is complete and the metadata is fresh.