Episode 14 — LinkedIn - Acquired  ## Metadata - Author: **Acquired** - Full Title: Episode 14 — LinkedIn - Category: #podcasts - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/ed33290a-7e38-4554-944b-a687202e655b ## Highlights - The Sequoia A Network's Rise to Power Key takeaways: (* By the time that came round, the network had already eaten to squash the competition and were far ahead., * Late two thousand three was when the network started to take off a little bit., * Mark quamy joined the board of the network in late two thousand three., ..., * Marquamiais is now in columbus, ohio., * Shout out to ben's hometown, columbus.) Transcript: Speaker 3 By the time that came round, they, you know, had already eaten to squash the competition and were atly way out afhead. It's totall, you knowhen you're facing a cold start problem as a network, you know, the chicken and egg problem, lake, you can't, you got to have somethingto, some unfair advantage to get through it. Speaker 1 You know, doesn't always have to be illegal, but in many cases it turns out it was. Ah, so late. By late, two thousand three, the network is starting to take off a little bit. It's still really early. A, they raise a series a from sequoia a, four point seven million dollars, which was a lot of money bankin that day, especially after the internet bubble had burst. A, and mark quamy joins the board. Speaker 3 Later, when he left a sequoia a, mike maritz takes over and is still, to this day, i believe, on the board of linkton. And marquamiais now inin columbus. Ohioner, i've capital exactly ben's hometown, columbus. Shout out. Shout out. Speaker 1 A and and so things continue to go well. And in two thousand four, the next year, they raised their series b from graylock and super cool. ([Time 0:09:34](https://share.snipd.com/snip/16dc83d3-9b2f-4a25-851f-63151b7250c0)) - The Limitations of Office 365 Identity Management Key takeaways: • We cannot talk about identity in office three sixty five because it would disrupt the way that the company operates. • We need to have a way to access and leverage all of the data that employees have to be able to do their jobs effectively. Transcript: Speaker 2 And you lend your skills and reputation to the company while you're there. And some people do that for a, really, a long time. But some people don't. And you have to have a way to be able to access and leverage all that other data. Speaker 1 And a, you know, for microsoft previously, whichis, again, trying to re invent everything it's doing a, as kurt talked to us about a few months ago, you know, in this we know, moble first, Cloud, first world, like when the reality is that the majority of employees, at least in fields like tech or financea, you know, aren't staying in the same job for long periods of time Any more. If you as microsopt only have these very silo views into people, and not the the holistic view of their skills and their career history and their identity, you know, across jobsn they Speaker 2 Were go hence linked inye and the the parallel, i think i should that i wrote down. Anyways, you know, five years ago, ten years ago, we had this, like, i t shake up where they were freaking out about b y o d, bring your own device. And this the realization of b y o d when it comes to identity. Speaker 1 Y b o e, bring your own employee. I o p, your own person. Speaker 2 And you mention a, well, i was going to go into the sort of second thing. Sa, there's a good segway there. The second reason we cannot talk about identity in office three 65 there. ([Time 0:30:37](https://share.snipd.com/snip/ef21c254-da5b-4c42-9095-ab35cf218d13))