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Russell Glass, Linkedln VP of product (2014-2017); CEO, Headspace Health: When Linkedln figured out that you can incentivize people to bring their contacts in and help them join the network, that was kind of a game changer in the growth curve.

Reid was the one who made the decision to invest a team in [enabling] uploads from Microsoft Outlook address books. At the time, almost everybody, certainly in Silicon Valley, ran on Outlook email. That is the way we did

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