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8 Sept 2024 Lenny's Podcast How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story | Tomer Cohen (CPO at LinkedIn)
“Also, why Tomer's most repeated mantra is, "We might be wrong, but we are not confused.”
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- Lenny Rachitsky
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- uncertainty
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- 8 Sept 2024
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…AI is the ultimate matchmaker. It's underutilized, it's misunderstood, it's really about... Today my guest is Tomer Cohen. Tomer is chief product officer at LinkedIn overseeing all teams responsible for building and creating LinkedIn products and experiences, including product development, design, business development, content creation, and customer operations. During his tenure at LinkedIn, Tomer was head of the mobile team, led the effort to revamp the LinkedIn feed and to many people surprised, made it extremely interesting in a place I check regularly. And he was also at the center of shifting LinkedIn to an AI first mindset, which started way before AI became cool. In our conversation, Tomer goes inside the strategy behind the transformation of LinkedIn's feed and how they approached making it a place that people wanted to check and make it much more social. We also get into the one mindset that Tomer credits for helping him rise so quickly within LinkedIn. Also, why Tomer's most repeated mantra is, "We might be wrong, but we are not confused. " And so much more. This episode is for anyone wanting to see what great product leadership looks like and wants to be inspired to think bigger. A big thank you to Shira Gasarch, Dan Roth, Josh Redfern, and Sparsh Argawal for question suggestions that made this episode so interesting. With that, I bring you Tomer Cohen. Tomer, thank you so much for being here and welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me.…
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