Taking the Leap: Leaving LinkedIn for Startup Success

Name: Taking the Leap: Leaving LinkedIn for Startup Success
Uploaded: 2024-06-16T13:24:50+00:00
Duration: 34 s
Channel: Jason M. Lemkin
Description: In 2016, a LinkedIn leader managing over 200 account executives left to join an early-stage startup. He weighed the security and scale of a big company…

16 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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In 2016, a LinkedIn leader managing over 200 account executives left to join an early-stage startup. He weighed the security and scale of a big company against the risk and potential impact of something smaller, choosing the chance to build something different.

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So it was a great experience personally and professionally. And then I would say my second one was making the decision to leave a fairly scaled role leading 200+ AEs at LinkedIn to join a smaller stage startup. And it was sort of that moment of, hey, do I wanna continue to build a career with tons of learning and opportunity at, at this point it was 2016 and LinkedIn had grown substantially substantially and stay in a more kind of structured, at-scale, larger corporation environment.