Posted by ColinWright 1 day ago
Actually Steve Blank has a great talk on the roots of Silicon Valley. SV basically built upon military tech meeting private equity. That's why it's wildly different than say Berlin startup scene, and their products are global and free.
In any case, I don't know how much more ad money they'll extract from knowing what I look like. Maybe beauty products?
As a blogging platform it seems like a mess of fake posturing. Recruiters use it, but that mostly means you get lots of spam. You can find a job without LinkedIn. I deleted my account about a decade ago and feel increasingly justified every time I read about the current state of affairs.
After deleting I got a job from HN "who's hiring", joined a friend's company, and now freelance.
Don't forget that if you fly to a country you are also bound by their laws. They can do anything to you as long as they can make it stick under their laws. It's one thing that people often don't realise when flying somewhere, you are basically giving a blanket submission to their laws!
For this reason I have a long blacklist of countries I won't visit because they have laws I do not accept.
Well they made it. They conquered the recruitment scene and I can’t think of a company I’d wish had gone out of business sooner.
Am I wrong?
0. https://www.inc.com/joe-procopio/you-cant-find-a-job-because...