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LinkedIn CPO Explains the Mindset Change That Led to Success [Video]

While LinkedIn is the mecca of job search, chief product officer Tomer Cohen said he didn’t actually apply for his role at the company before being asked to join.

In a recent episode of Lenny’s Podcast, Cohen said that he first joined LinkedIn in 2012 after meeting up with Deep Nishar, former senior vice president of products and user experience.

The two were talking and Cohen pitched Nishar on an idea.

“I said, ‘This is how I think this is how LinkedIn mobile unit should be built,'” he said. “And he was like, ‘Okay, how about you come and build it?’ I was like, ‘Amazing.'”

Cohen, who has risen from head of product to VP and eventually CPO, said that while he has “always loved building” from a young age, he had to completely switch his thought process after moving from Israel to the US for graduate school in 2008.

“When I moved here, …

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