As of January '22, our 📝LinkedIn network includes over 20,000 people that are, 📝By and Large, comprised of founders, executives, advisors, mentors, and investors of/to companies between Seed and Series F in sectors such as technology, finance, and manufacturing. Some of my first-tier connections include Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn), 📝Alexis Ohanian (co-founder of Reddit), Craig Newmark (founder of Craigslist), Holly Maloney (Managing Director at General Catalyst), etc.

Most of our network on LinkedIn is the product of prior growth hacking via 📝Connected (service) wherein machine learning was used to target the networks of the top 50 venture firms in the United States. For example, if you look at Niko Bonatsos (Managing Partner of 📝General Catalyst(investor in 📝Airbnb, 📝Stripe, Gusto, etc.), we are not connected, but we have 1,560 mutual connections.

This marketing automation has opened many doors to more human relationships including clients like 📝Clark Benson and partners like 📝John Zdanowski. The desire to batch conversations with the flood of new connections was also a major catalyst in the genesis of our fortnightly gathering known as 📝Symposium; a space for co-creativity and 📝play which led to the manifestation of my wife.

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• 🏷️#linkedin (See: 📝LinkedIn)