- For point #2 how do they know if it’s the right profile before they pay to view it? Companies look through hundreds maybe even thousands of resumes for any given role and you think they’ll be happy to pay per profile?
- If profile views are paid to the person who owns the profile it basically incentivizes people to make bogus content or content for content’s sake. Why shouldn’t I make 100 fake accounts with fake IDs? Even if I wasn’t making a fake account I’d be incentivized to game my profile for cash rather than gaming it to help my career.
- You’re assuming a competitive vacuum. If you’re saying LinkedIn will make 4x revenue with the flick of a wrist companies will bail and start using Indeed instead. Increase the spend by 4x and you’ve just made the market way more attractive. You might as well suggest that Apple charge $4,000 for the next iPhone.
- LinkedIn’s daily active users is peanuts compared to Facebook which is why their revenue is only 15 billion like you say. LinkedIn is at 125 million DAUs while Facebook is 2 Billion. This is why LinkedIn makes much less money.
- The “amateur armchair quarterback” factor: if there was a simple way to grow revenue by 4x like you suggest, don’t you a company of very smart people like Microsoft would have already increased their revenue by at least 2 or 3x by now? What could you possibly know that they don’t? Hey Patrick Mahomes have you tried throwing touchdowns more often? That could really improve your win ratio.
- For point #2 how do they know if it’s the right profile before they pay to view it? Companies look through hundreds maybe even thousands of resumes for any given role and you think they’ll be happy to pay per profile?
- If profile views are paid to the person who owns the profile it basically incentivizes people to make bogus content or content for content’s sake. Why shouldn’t I make 100 fake accounts with fake IDs? Even if I wasn’t making a fake account I’d be incentivized to game my profile for cash rather than gaming it to help my career.
- You’re assuming a competitive vacuum. If you’re saying LinkedIn will make 4x revenue with the flick of a wrist companies will bail and start using Indeed instead. Increase the spend by 4x and you’ve just made the market way more attractive. You might as well suggest that Apple charge $4,000 for the next iPhone.
- LinkedIn’s daily active users is peanuts compared to Facebook which is why their revenue is only 15 billion like you say. LinkedIn is at 125 million DAUs while Facebook is 2 Billion. This is why LinkedIn makes much less money.
- The “amateur armchair quarterback” factor: if there was a simple way to grow revenue by 4x like you suggest, don’t you a company of very smart people like Microsoft would have already increased their revenue by at least 2 or 3x by now? What could you possibly know that they don’t? Hey Patrick Mahomes have you tried throwing touchdowns more often? That could really improve your win ratio.