>> What I love about working at LinkedIn is that we're in the center of what our CEO,
Jeff Weiner, calls the economic graph.
And his vision for what we want to do as a company is to digitally map the global economy.
And if you can think about what that would mean if you had every company in the world
that had a LinkedIn profile, every worker in the world, every knowledge worker,
the 300 million plus knowledge workers that we don't have on the platform yet,
if we got them all to have a profile.
If we had every job available in the world listed on the profile, think about the way that,
you know, all types of capital could flow more efficiently from, you know,
human capital to physical capital to, you know, actual monetary capital.
It just -- the possibilities of digitizing that whole interaction and being able
to notice efficiencies and inefficiencies and allow that system to correct itself,
it's an immensely complex problem.
And it's something that I take a lot of pride in, in helping to drive the engine that looks
to solve that problem because, you know,
a couple of years ago it might have seemed ridiculous to think that it was possible.
But we're growing towards that.
We're growing immensely in places like Southeast Asia and China where, as I mentioned before,
we're closing the gap in that hiring loop and making that more efficient.
So that's something I love, just the grandness of that vision and the idea
that we can work on something like that.
The challenges are, you know, we're a large publicly traded company.
And there are pluses and minuses that come with that.
There are, you know, pressures to meet stockholder expectations.
There are pressures to meet quarterly earnings.
There are pressures to conform to a set of processes that you have to follow if you're
in large publicly traded companies to make sure that you're accountable for every dollar.
Coming from the startup world, and I spent the majority of my career was smaller companies
that then got absorbed into larger companies, it's something I miss, just the freedom to kind
of move fast and break things as Mark Zuckerberg says at Facebook.
But short of that, there are still a lot of things that make LinkedIn a great place to be.