Jeff Weiner

I've had that for 20 years.

It's hard to kind of... draw a line from like me watching TV in Sweden to arriving on the shores of the UK and signing up for a mobile provider that I've had since then 20, 20, 2004, right? How do we kind of prove that ROI? But I think it's, you know, we as an industry need to make sure that we provide all of our stakeholders with the right tools, the right systems that they can then prove the value of what they're doing to their stakeholders on the boardroom, CFO, CEO, et cetera.

You talk about the UK, you talk about Sweden, you talk about the US, very established kind of markets in many ways.

But then you rattled off a whole list of other kind of exciting dynamic emerging and in some cases leading kind of markets.

And I know you're, you're a big kind of believer in kind of in trust.

Tell me more about kind of how you bake trust in the way that you kind of operate.

Yeah, I think it's, you know, our old CEO, Jeff Weiner, who ran LinkedIn for us, he said, like, trust is built in drops and lost in buckets, right? So, like, it's kind of, you need to, like, when you kind of build trust, you need to be able to, like, it's like you make a promise to someone in that sense, right? And promises need to be, you know, valuable to the person you do it with.

It needs to be repeatable.

And how you get hired at LinkedIn.

I was walking with Jeff Weiner, then CEO, and he asked me about my career aspirations, and I said, "Well, one day I'd love to be a CEO like you, Jeff." And he told me I was in the wrong job.

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We had built this great talent business, and I had learned from Mike, the person that, that hired me, who's an exceptional leader.

I think I learned leadership more than anything else during this time.

And, uh, I was walking with Jeff Weiner, then CEO, and he asked me about my career aspirations.

And I said, "Well, one day I'd love to be a CEO like you, Jeff." And he asked me what kind of company.

When I started my first company, like I said, I left Yahoo to start.

And actually, my now mentor and, and former leader of the group that I was in at Yahoo, Jeff Weiner, offered...

He said, "Do you wanna do your startup idea at Yahoo?" And I knew instantly I did not.

I wanted to do my own thing.