#002 – Conversation with a LION
This week’s guest is Christian Mayaud – a successful Venture Capitalist whose amazing Rolodex formed part of the initial nucleus of LinkedIn users. He’s also founder of the LinkedIn LIONs and one of LinkedIn’s most highly-connected users.
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In this interview, Christian shares his insights on the early days of LinkedIn, High Performance Networking and the Future of Networking.
WEB LINKS:
Sacred Cow Dung – Christian’s Blog
LinkedIn – www.linkedin.com/in/cmayaud
Twitter – @cmayaud
This entry was posted on Monday, September 17th, 2007 at 9:04 am
10 Responses to “Connections #002 – Conversation with a LION”
- Sheilah Etheridge Says: September 17th, 2007 at 4:49 pm – Hello Stan, Great podcast. I enjoyed listening to Christian’s viewpoint and also hearing about some of the changes LI took over time. Sheilah
- Matti Mattila Says: September 18th, 2007 at 12:59 am – Great show and excellent guest! Matti
- John Young Says: September 18th, 2007 at 3:49 am – Having been early into LinkedIn I then forgot about it. The last 2 weeks I have been using LinkedIn to track down a bunch of people I worked with at Sun in Australia and New Zealand and have been amazed at how much the system has evolved. This interview with Christian Mayaud gave me some insight into just how intense the LinkedIn phenomenon has become in some people’s working life.
- Jason Patino Says: September 18th, 2007 at 6:22 am – Great interview!!! Christian helped me with a nice phone call when I first started on LinkedIn and now I am the largest network in Michigan at 4300 first tier connections. I learned a good bit on how to think of my network from this podcast and found it interesting. In fact I want to hear it again to make sure I didn’t miss anything. Chris can really get going when he is walking through his subject matter and I certainly want to retain as much of that as possible. Jason Patino
- Jerry Says: September 18th, 2007 at 4:46 pm – Great guest!! Wonderful to hear someone with both the clarity of vision and the humility and discipline to test the assumptions with data. Smashed some of my erroneous thinking. Great value. Well done.
- Robert Yang Says: September 18th, 2007 at 11:18 pm – Hey Stan, This is great. Some great information and insights about LI history. Regards, Robert
- Cy Witherspoon Says: September 19th, 2007 at 9:00 am – Great show Stan, I found the podcast to be very informative and interesting. I especially liked the upcoming forum that Christian and his fellow Lions, are coming up with. I look forward to future Podcasts. Thanks for the reminders of your show and keep them coming. Sincerely, Cy
- Caryl Says: September 24th, 2007 at 12:50 pm – Hi Stan : Thanks for another great interview. Chris did an excellent job of explaining Linked-In history and the concept behind high performance networking. His CAN (currently active network) of Lions are actively studying future networking ideas on Web 3.0 using other tools as well as Linked-In. Timing is everything. Chris had the foresight to see a great technology and vehicle for advancing venture capital deals. He is one of the early players in Linked-In. Chris’s explanations of how Linked In is and is not a network was very insightful –especially to those of us who are late arrivers to Linked-In. It was very instructive that he used examples from his primary profession as a doctor and sprinkled in his additional role as a venture capitalist. He gave excellent analogies using both professions. Chris thanks for your tips and ideas!
- EyeSee » Blog Archive » I’m becoming a LION Says: January 19th, 2009 at 9:36 pm – […] Mayaud has used this to suceeed in his business ventures. He liked LinkedIn as he never forgot a face however not remember the […]
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