Education

Yale University

B.A., History

1988

Podcasts

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607: What It’s Like to Head Business Development at LinkedIn With Scott Roberts, LinkedIn [Main Time4Coffee Episode]

Scott Roberts is the Vice President and Head of Business Development at LinkedIn. When he joined the company in 2007 it was still operating like a start-up with about 100 employees. Since then LinkedIn has grown to 15,000 employees and from 13 million members to over 700 million. Scott’s role..

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612: How To Level Up Your Networking Skills With Scott Roberts, LinkedIn [K-Cup TripleShot]

Career Path

Interview Highlights

“The transformation of LinkedIn from a static place where you would simply just create your profile and then create connections and relationships with people, now has so many other dimensions to it.”

Best Career Advice

“The tools at the disposal of young professionals is incredible. But I think you need to be really careful and thoughtful as well … The point here is being thoughtful about how you present yourself and stepping in the shoes of a viewer.”

Career Challenge

“I helped start a company … and I actually got laid off from that company after 9/11. It was a very difficult time in so many ways … In my search for my new opportunity, … I was contacted by one of the companies in the space that that company was. So they kind of knew me and they knew a company I had worked with and so my experience was directly valuable to them. I’ve learned something in every role that I’ve ever had, but I think if I look back, I think it was probably just too quick to jump onto the next thing. I wasn’t more patient in terms of finding the right fit or the right opportunity for myself … I think part of it is, how do you try to … find a way to separate your thoughts and intellectually what you’re pursuing from the emotions you have? … It’s great to have emotions, great to have a passion. It’s great to have excitement, … to be able to inspire and to be inspired. But if you let things bring stress and anxiety to you, or if you react emotionally with a negative lens to it, you’re likely not going to be at your best.”