Happy 20th anniversary LinkedIn! What a run, what an impact, what a company to help so many people in the world change their lives and find new economic opportunities. I wrote a little bit about how I found LinkedIn and how it changed my life over on Twitter: https://lnkd.in/gqHZnxkE And special thanks to Allen Blue Eric Ly Reid Hoffman Konstantin Guericke Jean-Luc Vaillant for giving me a shot almost 20 years ago to join them.

Reid shared some of best career advice about developing relationships and networks and has asked others to share theirs with the hashtag #careerkickstart Given how much I owe Reid for many kick starts of my career, I thought I would share some of the best advice that helped me: (1) find roles where you contribute to a 10x growth in a business. This can be 10x growth in users, in revenue, in transactions, or in employees (though if it happens for employees it is generally happening in the others!). This can be about finding the right startup or mid stage company be a part of, but it also can be joining something within a large company that is nascent and an investment area. 10x is a lot. You won’t always be successful in the outcome, but when you take a job you should believe you can. I have found so much learning when things scale that fast, and there is so much work to go around for everyone that you all need to contribute and everyone feels very early. And once you get to 10x, you have a chance for another 10x or more too. Some people who have worked at some of the biggest companies today have gotten to see this even greater, so it’s not just startups, (2) don’t rush to be a boss I meet so many kids these days who want to be a boss and prioritize management over finding the right 10x opportunities. Then I meet people later in their career who want smaller teams or no team and just want to do the work on something huge. I have found the most joy in working on things that grow quickly with amazing people. A great way to learn to be a great leader is to learn to work on great things. (3) believe in what you work on and why it is good for the world. This might seem obvious, but it’s harder than you think when you see lots of other reasons for working somewhere. Nearly all of the jobs I have ever had are the result of me reaching out to something I really wanted to work on. Instead of “taking calls” for your next job, you need to go out and be “making calls.”

Shared a fun story from the early days of LinkedIn over on Twitter and wanted to cross post it here - featuring Ches Wajda https://lnkd.in/gjDD5rb

This was a fun conversation with my good friend James Currier

Fun conversation about building products

So excited to have Rich join our team and continue building our world class design practice. We are actively hiring if you know any great designers looking to redefine how we interact with and invest our money