“Today, my guest is Tomer Cohen, long-time Chief Product Officer at LinkedIn”
Tomer Cohen
Chief product officer at LinkedIn overseeing teams responsible for LinkedIn products and experiences.
2 episodes · 3 sourced appearances
Appearances and evidence
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“It's been an incredible ride at LinkedIn.”
“today my guest is toer Cohen toer is Chief product officer at LinkedIn”
Frameworks in these episodes
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AI-First Product Leadership: Hold the Paddles
If AI steers your product, the product leader must own the objective, features, data and infra.
Backwards From the Peak: Ambition Set by Potential, Not by Numbers
Derive goals from what the thing could be, then work backwards; today's numbers are not the anchor.
Benefit = (Volume × Quality) / Time
Measure AI-building impact as experimentation volume times quality, divided by time to launch
Conviction-Over-Demand Career Navigation
Stop chasing the most in-demand role; chase the conviction where you can make a dent and learn.
Diverge-Then-Converge Roadmap Reset
On a platform shift: drop the roadmap, keep the objective, let teams go crazy, then pick 4-5 bets.
Don't Wait for the Re-Org
If you're waiting for a formal declaration to build differently, you're already too late
Golden Samples Over Full Corpus
Curate a small set of gold examples for your AI, don't dump your whole knowledge base on it
The Carve-Out Cohort Turnaround
To fix a load-bearing product, secede from the metrics system with a small randomized cohort.
The Five Traits to Keep, Automate the Rest
Protect where humans shine — vision, empathy, communication, creativity, judgment — and automate everything else
The Full-Stack Builder Model
Empower one builder to take an idea to market end-to-end, regardless of role or team
We Might Be Wrong, But We Are Not Confused
Make being wrong cheap and being confused unacceptable, in both thought and execution.
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- Airbnb
- Alexa
- Apple Podcasts
- Bluey
- Building One
- Canva
- ChatGPT Enterprise
- ChatGPT Voice Mode
- Cursor
- Devin
- Drata
- Figma
- Friend.com
- Gamma
- Gamma Pro
- GitHub Copilot
- Google Docs
- Grok
- High Output Management
- Lenny's Newsletter
- Lenny's Podcast
- LennyPodcast.com
- LinkedIn Analyst Agent
- LinkedIn Growth Agent
- LinkedIn Learning
- LinkedIn Maintenance Agent
- LinkedIn Research Agent
- LinkedIn Trust Agent
- Loom
- Lovable
- Magic Patterns
- Merge
- Meta
- Microsoft Copilot Enterprise
- Microsoft Teams
- Mindset
- Never Search Alone
- Open to Work
- Outlive
- Pixar
- Plaid
- PowerPoint
- Ramp
- Roblox
- Slack
- Song Exploder
- Spark Amp
- Spotify
- Stanford University
- Subframe
- Tesla
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Ultimate Guitar
- Vercel
- Warrant
- Webflow
- Why Nations Fail
- Windsurf
- WorkOS
- Zanzibar
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