Encore: Live, Laugh, LinkedIn
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes from October 2023 about LinkedIn.
In this episode, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim dive into the decades-long transformation of LinkedIn from a website for digital resumes to a social networking platform whose devotees have earned the name LinkedIn Lunatics. Founded in 2003 and sold to Microsoft for $26 billion in 2018, LinkedIn has become an inescapable feature of the job hunt. But while the site is ostensibly founded on professionalism, in recent years its fomented its own particular and peculiar brand of terminal onlineness.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I see why am I listeners. I hope you're having an incredible week, but if you're not, |
| 0:04.8 | we've got a nice little treat in store for you. Today, we are bringing back an episode we did |
| 0:09.9 | back in October of 2023 about LinkedIn. In this episode, Rachel and I dive into the decades-long |
| 0:16.6 | transformation of LinkedIn from a job hunting website into an unhinged social networking platform |
| 0:22.0 | that literally no one can tame. And speaking of unhinged, we parse out a wild voicemail someone |
| 0:28.1 | left for our friends over at What Next TBD. And trust me, it's worth a listen. Without further ado, |
| 0:34.0 | here's the show. |
| 0:49.6 | Music In further ado, here's the show. Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. |
| 0:51.5 | And I'm Candace Lem, and you're listening to Icy YMI. |
| 0:55.0 | In case you missed it. |
| 0:56.7 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 1:00.0 | And I got to say, fall TV, you're going off. |
| 1:02.6 | Okay, Golden Bachelor, whole team here, still going strong. |
| 1:05.8 | F-Boy Island, new season coming up. |
| 1:07.9 | The Crown! |
| 1:08.6 | I love The Crown. |
| 1:09.4 | It's coming back later this year. |
| 1:10.9 | Rachel, though, anything you're excited for. |
| 1:16.7 | People who listen to this podcast for a long time know that I am a real house size of Potomac |
| 1:21.3 | Gurley. I am very excited for the return of that season. Also, this isn't technically |
| 1:27.0 | fall television. It's kind of like fall, |
| 1:29.5 | winter, spring slate, but allegedly interview with the vampire season two is slated to release |
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