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?”
Gurley identifies email and podcasting as content forms structurally resistant to platform control due to their distributed technical architecture.
“And email and podcasting are two content forms where there's no evil overlord that control. They're they're both these highly distributed things just by the way they're technically implemented.”
Gurley speculates LinkedIn's InMail monetization prevented it from capturing powerful conversations like Twitter DMs did.
“I've wondered over the years if LinkedIn hadn't polluted their InMail and made it monetize and they had done what Twitter did, how much of the most powerful conversations in the world would”