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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: evaluation
16 Jun 2016 Acquired LinkedIn
“Microsoft is also a developer-facing company. So if they open up the LinkedIn API to – I mean, I think about like even venture capital firms, so many firms are building data tools internally for themselves to be able to identify people who might be founders, great founders before they start companies or people who might be interested in joining startups before they do who are really talented.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- evaluation
- Recorded
- 16 Jun 2016
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- Acquired
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Transcript context
…So long as they keep the network effect locked. So long as they keep the network effect but it’d also be embedded into all of Microsoft’s products. Microsoft is also a developer-facing company. So if they open up the LinkedIn API to – I mean, I think about like even venture capital firms, so many firms are building data tools internally for themselves to be able to identify people who might be founders, great founders before they start companies or people who might be interested in joining startups before they do who are really talented. And you've just been totally hamstrung because you can’t really use the LinkedIn API very well. But if now all of a sudden you can like, man, think about all the cool products and services that are going to be enabled by that. You can. I’ll just caveat this with like David, remember venture capitalists are a niche market.…
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