Gurley predicts more vertical-specific talent marketplaces will emerge, fragmenting LinkedIn's horizontal model.
“People have talked about kind of, you know, the opening up of LinkedIn where people go into more specific verticals and are able to drive better outcomes, real work opportunities right away.”
Gurley wonders if LinkedIn had avoided monetizing InMail like Twitter it could have hosted powerful conversations.
“I've wondered over the years if LinkedIn hadn't polluted their InMail and made it monetized. Yep. And they had done what Twitter did, how much of the most powerful conversations in the world would happen?”