LI personalities
LI's legendary CEO before Ryan?
Who is Jeff Weiner?
When was LI founded?
2002
What does JTBD stand for?
Jobs To Be Done
Name of the program that lets you reimburse up to $2K per year on stuff like fitness, pet care and tax filing
What is Perk Up?
This is commonly referred to as API
What is Application Programming Interface?
These 2 co-founded LinkedIn
Who are Reid Hoffman and Allen Blue?
When is LinkedIn's birthday?
May 5th (we always celebrate on Cinco De Mayo)
Name of the experiment PMs run to see if a new feature is impactful?
What is an A/B test?
This is the number of languages LinkedIn is available in
What is 26?
This is what a URL stands for
What is Uniform Resource Locator?
Head of Business Development at LI
Who is Scott Roberts?
What tool do we use at LI to track and manage technical tasks?
Jira
This is approximately the number worldwide members on LinkedIn
What is 930 million?
What are Generative Pre-trained Transformers
Name of the podcast that Ryan hosts
What is The Path?
Amount of money MSFT paid to acquire LI
What is $26.2B?
At LI, we build products that are simple, valuable and ...?
trustworthy
These are the 3 marketplaces within LinkedIn
What are Knowledge Marketplace, Talent Marketplace and Products & Services Marketplace?
This is the platform LinkedIn uses to run all of our experiments
What is a Lix?
He is LinkedIn's COO and head of GBO
Who is Dan Shapero?
This is a company we can credit with bootstrapping the LinkedIn feed early on
Approx number of PMs at LinkedIn
What is 324?
LinkedIn has 6 values on our website. Name 3
- We put members first
- We trust and care about each other
- We are open, honest and constructive
- We act as One LinkedIn
- We embody diversity, inclusion and belonging
- We dream big, get things done and know how to have fun
This is a publish-subscribe system that came out of LinkedIn, and was subsequently open-sourced via Apache. This is an industry standard these days.
What is kafka?