LinkedIn CEO - LinkedIn and Microsoft: Changing the Way the World Works(linkedin.com)
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LinkedIn CEO - LinkedIn and Microsoft: Changing the Way the World Works
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linkedin-microsoft-changing-way-world-works-jeff-weiner
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It'd kind of insulting to one's intelligence when a company says "This 20 billion dollars is just a passive investment guys... Nothing to see here!". I wonder if Nokia employees were told the same thing.
From the article: "For LinkedIn, it was to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful, and for Microsoft it was to empower every individual and organization in the world to achieve more. "
Microsoft's mission statement sounds like the same meaningless fluff they've been going on about since Nadella took charge.
$26 billion is a nice amount, even for MS, it gives me pause to think about what they really intend to do and how they could abuse LinkedIn user information, a veritable treasure trove of deeply personal and real information and people networks.
Microsoft's mission statement sounds like the same meaningless fluff they've been going on about since Nadella took charge.
$26 billion is a nice amount, even for MS, it gives me pause to think about what they really intend to do and how they could abuse LinkedIn user information, a veritable treasure trove of deeply personal and real information and people networks.
> combining these assets would be unique
> LinkedIn's graph interwoven throughout Outlook, Calendar, Active Directory, Office, Windows, Skype, Dynamics, Cortana, Bing and more
> LinkedIn’s full potential [...] within the enterprise [...] corporate directory, company news dissemination, collaboration
This is about owning the environment around microsoft's products, adding another dimension to lock-in.
> LinkedIn's graph interwoven throughout Outlook, Calendar, Active Directory, Office, Windows, Skype, Dynamics, Cortana, Bing and more
> LinkedIn’s full potential [...] within the enterprise [...] corporate directory, company news dissemination, collaboration
This is about owning the environment around microsoft's products, adding another dimension to lock-in.
Yammer, Sharepoint, Delve
1. People
2. Machine Learning
3. ????
4. Profit!
That's one hell of a 26 billion dollar bet with Microsoft fronting all the risks, because I'm sure MS could build a better LinkedIn from scratch if they created a department with a 26 billion dollar budget.
That's one hell of a 26 billion dollar bet with Microsoft fronting all the risks, because I'm sure MS could build a better LinkedIn from scratch if they created a department with a 26 billion dollar budget.
1) Brand 2) Data 3) explain millions why to register to yet another service and why 4) make it popular
5) absorbing a would-be competitor :)
If that's what it sounds like, that's the most carefully worded version of "you're fired" I've ever seen.