The State of Enterprise Learning & the Rise of LinkedIn as a Learning Company
Enterprise learning has historically been met with disdain by employees. Rightfully so. We’ve all been punished with those IT security courses with cheesy actors that make you wish your computer crashed after about 60 seconds. But yet we have to sit through the pain for another 59 minutes. Along the way you try to fast […]
Data Science And Machine Learning Jobs Most In-Demand On LinkedIn
Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, and Big Data Engineers rank among the top emerging jobs on LinkedIn. Data scientist roles have grown over 650% since 2012, but currently, 35,000 people in the US have data science skills, while hundreds of companies are hiring for those roles according to LinkedIn. There are currently 1,829 open Machine Learning […]
Whats CRM anymore?
Asked Josh Greenbaum, speaking for a group of analysts Microsoft briefed during CRM Evolution about updates to its Dynamics 365. What used to be a HR recruiters playground in LinkedIn a few years ago is becoming a salesperson’s goldmine as Microsoft leverages its $ 26 bn acquisition (while trying to preserving the sanctity of the […]
Why The LinkedIn Acquisition is So Important to SaaS
So, Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $25.6 billion dollars. That headline shocked all of us the other day. But if you step back, it’s not that impressive, the raw number itself. After all, as a public company, LinkedIn was worth $32 billion just a few months earlier, and had been on one heck of a run […]
Three Questions To Ponder on Microsoft and LinkedIn
Hello, Your friendly neighboring analyst (who apparently never writes anything anymore). I had to dust off the cobwebs for this one… I had such a busy day with calls and messages and emails and such – I figured it was a good time to break the streak and write something. First off, won’t comment on […]
Make Microsoft Relevant Again: LinkedIn Acquisition Explained
Microsoft has always been a huge, profitable company but it had become less and less relevant over the last 15 years. Satya has been on a quest to make Microsoft relevant again with a string of acquisitions in mobile and cloud, and this acquisition doubles down on that strategy. Two Kinds of M&A There are […]
Social’s swan song
Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn for more than $26 billion raised a lot of eyebrows for good reason. True, the acquired company is valuable and generating revenue but like most of the social networking space, it is far from healthy and one wonders if Microsoft could have gotten a better deal. According to a colleague at […]
End of an era? LinkedIn goes to Microsoft
Microsoft announced the intent to buy LinkedIn for $196 per share today or more than $26 billion. It’s a huge deal and a great payday for the social networking company specializing in making it easier for business people to connect. But why do this deal and why now? This calls for a lot of speculation […]
Thoughts on Jeff Weiner’s “Pay No Attention to the Stock” Message
From everything I’ve heard for a long time, Jeff Weiner is a wonderful guy and great CEO. In addition, LinkedIn is certainly a great company, so please don’t view this post as dissing either Jeff or the company. I will say, however, that I found media coverage of Jeff’s now famous all-hands speech after the […]
Jeff Weiners dystopian comments
By Vinnie Mirchandani on June 16, 2016
On Monday as I was going through the first edit of my book on automation, I heard of the whopper Microsoft bid for LinkedIn. I then read CEO Jeff Weiner’sletter to employees announcing it. Josh Bernoff calls the letter creepy. My reaction was more specific to the para below. I asked why is a CEO […]
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