Jay Singh

CEO @ Casper Studios | Ex-Linkedin: We help companies adopt AI and build AI-powered products.

I am a co-founder of Casper Studios, a product studio that develops and integrates AI solutions for companies. I previously was a business development and strategic partnership manager at LinkedIn. With over eight years of experience in these fields, I have a track record of creating value for customers, partners, and stakeholders.

At LinkedIn, I have helped lead the global expansion of identity verification capabilities to key markets, such as India, Europe, and LATAM, enabling over 80 million members to access trusted and secure services. I have also driven 20+ partnerships with leading companies and governments, such as Clear, DigiLocker, and Hyperverge, to enhance the user experience and the network effect of the verification project . 

At Casper, I have leveraged my expertise in AI and product development to create a popular chrome extension that assists users in content creation and summarization, attracting over 20,000 users in less than six months. I have also generated $x00,000s of revenue by offering tailored strategy consulting, product development, and design services to other businesses that want to integrate and leverage AI.

I am passionate about making products accessible, efficient, and user-friendly, and empowering people and businesses to unlock their full potential through technology. I have a strong background in trust, verification, and HR tech, and a keen interest in entrepreneurship and innovation. Outside of my work, I invest time in supporting the AAPI community, love meditating, and dancing with my friends.

Co-Founder & CEO

With a team of experts from LinkedIn and Microsoft, we help companies integrate AI into their workflows, from strategy and prototyping to complete product development.

Schedule a call with us to see how we can help.

Excited to welcome Martijn to Casper Studios as our Head of Growth!

Martijn was one of the first people to welcome me to LinkedIn's BD team back in 2020, bright energy, one of the most authentic humans I've met, instant friendship. I've looked up to him ever since.

His track record speaks for itself:
- Google: Led mobile app distribution
- LinkedIn: Built mobile app distribution that drove 500m+ member growth, plus led subscription growth initiatives
- Microsoft: Founding member of the BD team, partnering with AI startups that raised $100m+ in total funding

He's joining at the perfect time. We've been nurturing small experiments and partnerships for a few years that are ready for someone to operationalize into real systems.

Martijn's that person. He's our first GTM hire outside of me, cannot wait to see what we build together :)

Jay Singh 

CEO @ Casper Studios 👻 | Ex-Linkedin: We help companies implement AI

Just hit 20,000 followers on LinkedIn. The journey started with an essay I read back in college, Kevin Kelly's "1,000 True Fans."

The idea is simple: you don't need millions of followers. You just need 1,000 people who will follow you, support you, and buy what you create.

The math: 1,000 true fans × $100/year = $100,000/year.

I remember reading that and thinking, "I still want to go work at a company and learn skills", which I did at LinkedIn, "but it'd be great to start building a foundation toward this."

Do I have 1,000 true fans right now? I'm not sure! But what I do have is all of you, following, supporting, cheering us on, and connecting us with opportunities to help grow Casper Studios and help people implement AI. LinkedIn has driven 90% of our business to date. 

I'm really grateful for that. It's changed my life. 

People ask how to grow on LinkedIn. Here are three unintuitive things that have helped me:

1.) Time. I've been doing this for almost 10 years. Will Lawrence back at UBC said, "Hey, you should start posting on LinkedIn," and I just started and kept going. You're not going to hit a quick win. You'll probably want to give up. Having a longer time horizon helps. It eases the anxiety of posts that get 3 likes. Who cares? Just show up the next day and try again. You're building relationships with people. That takes time, don't rush it. 

2.) Think of it as a daily coffee chat vs needing to go viral. My frame for posting is to just let you know what I'm up to, the same way you would over coffee. And just like a real coffee chat, opportunities come from the conversation. People think of others to connect you with. They want to help. That leads to more opportunities of depth. I may not have a million people in the audience but there's some incredible people who do, I focus on that.

3. Be the same person online as you are in person. If we've chatted, hopefully you see the same vibe in this post as the person you ended up speaking with. I love that congruency. It means when you reach out, you know what you're getting. That builds trust. And trust leads to deals, relationships, and opportunities, faster. Really proud of Derek, Martijn, Max, Sebastian, Paolo, Leonard, Giorgio and others on the team who are all finding and sharing their own authentic voice on the platform now.

Thanks for the first 20,000. Honestly, I don't really care about growing this number much more haha. If it happens, great. If not, great. 

I'm grateful for everyone who's here and following the journey. Excited to keep building with you all :)

The Casper SF squad is getting strong! Martijn’s been here a week. Elizabeth and Erika joined in November. Derek’s been here from New York since Sunday.

Several of us have been working out of my Nopa apartment. Definitely not a startup garage, it’s a cute place (!), but it’s giving startup garage vibes at the moment.

There’s something about being in the same room. Context just flows. You overhear a call, you jump into a conversation, you learn something without even trying. 

Realizing at 20 people it’s so hard to have the team be up to speed on everything going on, even when I think we’re sharing relevant updates. Need more of this in person time; especially for new hires. 

Reminds me of Jeff Weiner talking about how leaders need to repeat themselves to their teams so many times that they’re sick of their own voice. That’s only when you’re just getting started with making sure that message is understood. 

We’ve already gotten noise complaints from neighbors. Apparently we’re a bit too fired up talking to prospects and customers about AI…

Might have to get an actual office soon. Hopefully not yet though :)

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We just signed our first client of 2026. It made me really proud. They're a major firm with >$100m in revenue, but more than that, the deal hit on a lot of the narratives and themes that are important to us at Casper Studios.

1.) LinkedIn's working: Our GTM is ~90% inbound from LinkedIn. Some of those are direct clients, others are partners that intro us to clients. Ryan Kurt at The AI Lab, someone who previously sold his company to Salesforce, had been engaging with our content for a while. One day he just showed up and said, "I know what you guys do. I've seen your work. I need trusted partners." Over time, that led to him connecting us with a potential customer, and that became this project. He's now an advisor and partner of ours, which is amazing. He's been excellent to work with. He's also cut the BS and been so open and honest from the get go which is 100% the Casper vibe and so nice to work with. 

2.) We went head to head against a VC-backed AI services firm: This firm has raised over $100m. The customer had already been working with them but didn't like their commercial terms. They were focused on owning the IP of what they'd build for the client vs making sure the client owned the IP themselves. That opened the door for us, and we ended up winning the initial first phase. We still have a lot more to go and we may even work directly with this firm at some point because they do great work. But I think this is a tell of how their incentives can become misaligned with customers over the long term. To justify the venture money, they need a Palantir-like story: "We're starting with services, but we're building IP to sell to others, don't worry." That can work sometimes, but in other cases it's just not the best outcome for the customer. 

Good start to 2026.

Proud of the journey Martijn is on. He joined a few weeks ago. He’s already speaking with enterprise companies. Learning Claude Code, then teaching it. Kicking off partner calls with all the major AI platforms. Building agents to automate his work. Sharing his learnings in public.

Maybe most importantly, coaching me and the team on how to be better leaders.

Big year ahead.

Spent the last 3 days onsite with a client in Indianapolis with Kelly and Derek. Super fun and energizing.

I’ll share more about the client later, but the work itself is so interesting. Why?

1.) We’re working with wonderful people. Their Chief Strategy Officer literally picked us up from the hotel and drove us around a few times. They also invited us today to their 100+ person leadership meeting where they introduced us to the team. What a lovely moment. 

2.) The problem they’re tackling supports a population that’s deeply underserved. This is one of the more, if not the most, meaningful projects our team at Casper Studios has worked on.  

3.) The solution they’re building is one of the more innovative things we’ve built. It lives in both the digital and physical worlds. Requires tons of model training. Heavy ML focus. 

I also just love getting onsite. It’s one of my favorite -and most tiring - parts of the job. It’s the best way to spend real time with the team and get to know the clients we’re building with. 

I’m excited to keep spending time in cities outside the coasts and work with businesses there as they start implementing AI.

Over the past year alone, we’ve spent time in Boise, San Antonio, Ardmore (Oklahoma), Cincinnati, Sacramento, and more. I love our NYC and SF clients, but there’s something special about getting out of the bubble, meeting different people, and helping them solve very real problems.

Onwards :)

My team keeps telling me to stop using Claude Chat and switch to Claude Code. As a non technical person, that still makes me nervous but I need to figure this out. I wanted to learn this in public with you.

I’ve asked my team to reallyy hand-hold me and get me up to speed live over the next few weeks. If you want to follow along, join the meeting, and be on the same journey, comment Claude Code below and I'll send you a link.

Our GTM strategy for the next few years is simple: be best friends with everyone! AI platforms, services firms, large consultancies, PE firms. The good companies are all growing fast in this space. So much room to help each other out.

Ria bought me the new Meta × Oakley smart glasses. They are kind of amazing. Look at the video quality of Martijn and I biking last week. It got me thinking about a few things re AI & hardware. 

First, I think this creates a new content format. Walking around with a phone feels a bit old. Moving forward I wonder if people will just have smart glasses on, interviewing each other, capturing content, recording day-in-the-life stuff. 

As long as there’s consent (and I like that there’s a visible white light so it’s obvious when you’re recording), the privacy issues feels solvable. When everyone’s opting in, this just feels more authentic. It gets a bit weird of course if people don’t know they’re being recorded. 

Second, I think there are some interesting applications for our client work. We’re already talking with a large marketing agency about using these for an activation. There’s also a more enterprise angle; esp in healthcare. 

We’re working with a firm where the core application will be powered by a computer-vision model. Today we’re using cameras to capture what’s happening in a room. Over time, as these glasses get better and cheaper, I wonder if it becomes more economical to roll out smart glasses instead of installing fixed cameras. I think we’re still a couple of years away from that being common in practice, but the direction feels interesting.

I’d love for this year to be one where we’re building real AI applications and experiences on top of smart glasses! If anyone’s curious or experimenting in this space, would love to chat :)

Should we start a Casper Studios Bike Club? Can talk about AI. Sounds cringe but I’m excited about it nonetheless haha.

Last week, ~700k AI agents built their own Reddit, founded a religion, established a government with a draft constitution, and started developing private languages. They did this in 3 days. That's started from Openclaw (fka ClawdBot) and the AI world has been losing their minds over it.

I'm still processing what this means myself tbh. It might just be a weird internet thing that fizzles out. But I think it hints at where enterprise AI is heading.

The first wave was "build a chatbot." That was 2023. A conversational interface. Most never made it past pilot - and honestly, often shouldn't have. Chatbots weren't the right way to drive ROI.

The second wave - where most companies are now - is "build agents to automate workflows." That's 2024/2025, probably extending a few more years. Agents integrated into how work actually gets done. This is where real value shows up, and where our team at Casper Studios spends every day.

I think there's a third wave coming: "help us design a network of agents."
Not agents that automates workflows. A network where agents take on different roles and work together - debating, challenging assumptions, surfacing insights no single agent or human would find alone. 

This is probably a 2027 thing for most. Maybe longer for most F100s. Though I'd bet you'll see younger companies experimenting this year. We're seeing experiments of our clients and our team doing this as we speak.

Here's what this could look like. We're working with a hedge fund to build them agents. Imagine for them:
-A deep value agent focused on fundamentals
-A momentum agent tracking price action and sentiment
-A management quality agent analyzing leadership
-A contrarian agent that argues against emerging consensus in tech, one in manufacturing
-A synthesis agent that flags when something interesting is happening with earnings calls

They run for a few days, argue, and bubble up insights to humans. The output is an emerging thesis the team hadn't had the time to articulate, with the reasoning trail attached. You can do elements of this already with Claude Code.
That's one version of it, anyway. 

The safety concerns are severe. This isn't close to ready for production for most use cases. But the design questions - population architecture, agent interactions, culture, human interfaces - that feels like the interesting work ahead. 

If you're a company thinking about where this goes, would love to hear what you're seeing.

There’s that one idea you want to build but never quite get to. Not enough time. Not enough eng capacity. Not worth pulling a team off work. With Claude Code / Cursor I'm finally getting to those ideas.

I’ve had one stuck in my head since last year around Google’s Multimodal Live API. The idea is straightforward. 

You share your screen. The agent can see what you’re doing. You just talk. It’s like someone looking over your shoulder and walking you through a product in real time. Imagine connecting voice and computer vision models into one. 

I used something like this last year to learn Zapier. I opened it up, used the agent, and just walked through it live. Ever since, I kept thinking it would be perfect for learning tools like Cursor and Claude Code.

So I finally built it this weekend. Cursor did what it does best. It researched the Multimodal Live API, scaffolded the project, and wired things together. When it needed something from me, cloud setup, billing, API keys, it told me. I filled in the gaps and kept going.

Agents don’t just do the work for you anymore. They tell you to do the work for them. Weird year ahead.

The first version didn’t worked. Screen sharing was on. Voice was on. The behavior wasn’t great. So I debugged in a loop. Something breaks. Screenshot. Paste it back in. Tried again. Each pass got better.

What exists now is simple. You open it. You share your screen. You can then click to Cursor / Claude Code. The UI stays out of the way. The agent knows how to guide you through Cursor and Claude Code because it’s trained on the same resources I use myself.

I built it in about an hour. There’s a link if you want to try it! This is very much a POC. It might break or burn through API credits. That’s part of building in public :)

We’re finishing the course later this week, and this comes with it. But instead of waiting, you can just share your screen and learn by doing.

This post went a little crazy. ~50 people commented wanting to be part of the journey of me learning how to use Claude Code. We were going to do live sessions, but because of the demand, we're going to host a pre-recorded mini-course instead.

It's probably going to take another week or two to build out. Once the course is done we'll invite you to a Slack group to keep the learning journey going. This will all be free DW!

If you want us to keep you in the loop, just fill out this form in the comments. 

If you need something immediately - especially if you're a business looking for Claude Code implementation services - just DM me in the meantime.

YAY.

I think robots caring for the elderly will be one of the more meaningful uses of the technology in the next 20-30 years. 

My grandma in India has three caregivers and still needs a lot of support from my uncle. I’ve seen how much my parents have poured into supporting their parents. It’s noble but exhausting.

Was just talking with my mom about this. As she and my dad get older, I want to be there for them the way they’ve been there for their parents. But I also know how much it takes.

Robots handling the burdensome stuff means I can actually enjoy my time with them. It also means you don’t have to hopefully consider nursing homes / home care, etc. 

Part of me feels weird about it though. There’s something in me that says I should be the one doing everything, that’s what love looks like, especially in our Indian culture. A robot helping my mom feels cold if I think about it too long.

Then I remember watching my family stress out and be worried about the new caregivers they’ve brought on . The hard truth is that exhausted children aren’t fully present.

I’d rather have a robot handle the late night check-ins and the physical labor so that when I’m with my parents, I’m actually with them. Not stressed, just there.

I think that’s a net positive. What do you think?

There’s this vibe that you need to raise to be competitive in SF. I think raising often increases your competition. Once you take venture money, a “successful” outcome narrows fast; basically a $1B+ exit (if not more).

When you bootstrap and survive the early years, the surface area of successful outcomes increases a lot. You can generate cash flow. You can sell earlier or smaller. You can spin things out. If you want a venture-scale outcome later, you can still go for it, on your terms.

What’s been exciting for us is we’re starting to beat venture-backed AI services firms in deals. At that point, it’s like… who’s the competition? Yourself!

There's been a lot of hype around ClawdBot lately. So what is it, and what actually makes it different from other AI agents?

Three things stand out. First, it meets you where you are, it lives in WhatsApp, iMessage, Telegram, whatever you already text. Second, it remembers things better than most current AI products. Third, it takes actions: sending messages, managing files, and more.

People are calling it the "AI companion we've all been waiting for."

Here's an early take: If you've been using Claude Code or Cursor, you look at ClawdBot and think, "I could already do these automations myself." And that's true, I could rebuild most of these workflows right now if I wanted to. The difference is that ClawdBot does it on its own, without me directing every step.

There was a story on X that captured this well. A user wanted AI to book a restaurant reservation. ClawdBot checked OpenTable but couldn't find an opening. So instead of stopping there, it created a skill using an ElevenLabs voice agent, called the restaurant directly, and booked the table.

The user just described the problem in a chat interface, and the system figured out the solution. That's the nuance worth paying attention to.

Right now, Cursor and Claude Code use the terminal as their interface. You're building agents, configuring workflows, writing prompts. It works but it doesn't feel natural for mainstream consumer adoption. I think enterprises still have a lot of opportunity to implement these platforms FWIW.

As a consumer, this reminds me of when I used Playground before ChatGPT launched. Playground was doing almost the same thing under the hood. But ChatGPT's UI is what allowed everyday people to actually start using it.

The way I see it: ClawdBot (or something like it) is to ChatGPT as Claude Code and Cursor are to Playground. Same engineering, same model, different interface.

Security is a real concern here. You're giving an agent access to your entire computer. That can cause some damage. Some people are even buying Mac Mini devices to test this out. I do think that'll get solved over time.

Will ClawdBot be the product that takes over? Too early to tell. I sense that larger tech companies are working on similar offerings. But it's clearly hitting on a real problem: you want the functionality that exists within Claude Code, packaged into a more accessible chat interface. This is likely the first example of that.

If I had to bet, I'd put my money on this type of interface being the future: something text-based, something easier to use, something that looks more like a document over time. Not sure if I'd say it's going to be ClawdBot. Could just be coming from Anthropic, OpenAI , or another big tech co. 

We're still learning this ourselves. Maybe it's something we can help clients with over time. We'll keep a close eye on this as the Casper Studios team to see how it plays out.

MCPs are way more functional on Claude than ChatGPT or Gemini. This is why I use Claude exclusively now. They've got all my info, Fireflies, Gmail, Google Drive, and the responses are incredible. It looks through everything and generates the right answer.

Here's an example of a workflow: I get an email asking if we had experience building a specific AI automation for a specific niche / industry from a prospect. At 20+ clients it's hard for me to have context on the minutiae of every project across our team but Claude + MCPs into our data does. 

I just drop the question into Claude. It runs through all our documents, all our Fireflies notes, and gives me the right answer. Super crisp. That's what model capabilities look like when they're connected to your data.

The faster Antropic go on these integrations, the more personalized the responses, the stickier the product gets. I don't think people are thinking about this enough. It started with a small MCP protocol they created, but I think we'll look back at that as the most important invention they made for user adoption.

The evolution of the "Blank Page" for knowledge workers:
-2020: Open a Google Doc.
-2023: Open ChatGPT or Claude.
-2026: Open an IDE (Cursor, Claude Code).

It sounds wild, but my workday no longer starts in a chat interface. Whether I’m working on sales, marketing, or recruiting, I’m starting in a code editor. That habit has changed of Tuesday this week haha. 

I think we’ll eventually come full circle: a simple, doc-like interface with the raw power of an IDE hidden underneath. For now, the "dev tools" are simply better at getting the job done.

Excited to keep sharing these learnings over time. 

Claude Code implementation / education will become a key service area for Casper Studios. I.e., I think there's a lot of value in simply implementing Claude Code + Cursor into companies. 

If you're one of those people interested DM and lets chat.

Reflection: ~80% of our clients’ decision-makers - CEOs, Heads of AI, CTOs, MDs, Partners - are using some form of vibe-coding tool every day. It doesn’t matter how big the company is. Billions in AUM, funding, or revenue they’re in the tools themselves. 

That’s one key thing you need to cultivate as a leader to drive AI adoption. 

You see what’s possible. Then you go to your team and honestly, pretty sternly you push them to try it too. And later, when you notice a process that should be AI-first but isn’t, you call it out and push again. 

That’s the hardest part. It’s pushing against the identity of your team. It’s what they’ve likely spent years building their skills to do. You’re pretty much saying “thanks but try it a completely new way”. Over time those that have high agency and excitement will love this process too but it takes a lot more effort than you think. 

This has become a core part of a leaders job now. Why? Because it’s basically an extension of what they already do, hiring, culture management, setting the pace. Enabling your team to adopt this stuff is a leadership priority now. 

Call it the “AI-Native Executive” or whatever, but this should be in every CEO’s job description going forward.

This is exactly what I’m trying to do with our own team. Especially the non-technical folks.

If you’re a leader and you’re not there yet DM me. Let me get you up to speed. Even just a 30-minute screen share of what’s currently possible has been blowing people away.

Trying to write a newsletter again! Been doing it on and off since I was a freshman in college haha. This time I'm sharing my journey learning coding agents like Claude Code. This post is on I got set up, what surprised me, what's next.

Over time I think this will become more about general insights from our work in AI with Casper Studios. 

There's a lot of noise out there. My goal, as it always has been, will be to make the complex concepts feel more attainable and simple. It'll be fun to do that through a longer form forum again where I can expand on the quick hits I'm sharing here on LinkedIn.

For those interested in following along with the course our team is building for learning Claude Code, signing up here would be the best way to stay in touch (unless you've already filled out the form, then dw!).

I'll put the post in the comments for you :)

Simple and powerful use of Claude: connect it with your notetaker and your file storage. When someone asks a question, just drop it into Claude and say "hey based on everything you know, what do you think I should reply with - include specific mentions of the client work we've been doing."

At our scale of 10+ active clients running, I'm not in the weeds on the day-to-day learnings per project. Most times I kind of know the answer but I forget the details because I'm tired from the day. I'm not in every internal meeting either. But Fireflies is.

So when a prospect asks about a specific financial services use case, I can query Claude and say "how would you reply to this?" - and now more often than not, it gives me an 80% done draft with a super specific example of something we've actually delivered before. From there I do guide it and massage it based on my own knowledge / taste.

Honestly the prompting isn't that magical. The magic is just using Claude Opus and connecting Fireflies + Google Drive; or whatever your systems are too.

Daniel Markovits

Creators + Community + Sports @ LinkedIn | Venture Scout | I help CEOs, execs, VCs, athletes & brands stand out and build authority

I’m a community builder and strategist obsessed with how people - founders, execs, athletes, creators - show up online and build trust at scale.Today, as CCO at Shake, I help B2B founders turn their ideas, experiences, and point of view into a content engine that drives authority, credibility, and long-term organic demand. We call it founder-led marketing: using the founder’s voice as the most powerful acquisition channel a business has. When done right, it makes sales easier, trust faster, and brand-building more human.Before Shake, I spent years at LinkedIn shaping how top leaders show up on the platform. I worked across editorial, product, and creator partnerships. Onboarding world-class talent like Lewis Hamilton, helping executives communicate with clarity and personality, and launching scaled video programs that grew community engagement across markets. I’ve supported 500+ high-impact members, from CEOs to rising operators, helping them grow their audience, sharpen their story, and build influence that actually moves people.My path has never been linear.. I’ve simply followed what made me curious: how communities form, how stories spread, and how the right piece of content can unlock opportunities for people. That curiosity has taken me from Tel Aviv to London and through roles that mix editorial instinct, product thinking, and deep talent partnership.At the core, my work has stayed the same:I help people communicate with more clarity, more confidence, and more humanity - so they can build the kind of presence that opens doors.If you care about founder-led marketing, storytelling, or the future of how leaders build trust online, we’re already speaking the same language.

Co-Founder

Club created to serve as a continuous bond between the diaspora community and the State of Israel.

• Successful crowdfunding campaign & world wide media coverage
• 150+ players from 25 different countries 
• Currently in Liga Gimel (5th division) of the Israeli Football League

Dani Markovits

LinkedIn just became even more important.

AI systems like ChatGPT, Google AI, and Perplexity now cite LinkedIn as their second most-referenced domain

(right after Reddit and ahead of Wikipedia).

This has huge implications for your business.

When potential clients ask AI: 'Who are the leading experts in (your industry)?' or 'what companies should I trust for (your service)?, the answer is being shaped by LinkedIn content right now.

Discovery is shifting:
➡️ From search → to synthesis
➡️ From ads → to authority
➡️ From brand pages → to people with real track records and opinions

This is especially important/relevant for businesses built on trust: B2B, tech, professional services, finance, cyber, healthcare, and more.

Your thought leadership isn't just building your personal brand anymore. It's training the AI systems that are pre-qualifying you before prospects ever reach your website.

The decision is being made in the AI conversation, not on your homepage.

This is exactly why, at Shake Content, we focus so heavily on helping founders and execs show up with real expertise, real stories, and real perspective.

bottom line: your prospects are having conversations with AI whether you like it or not.

The opportunity? This shift is still early. Most of your competitors aren't thinking this way yet.

s/o to Irina Novoselsky & Becca Chambers for already beating this drum👏

CCO @ Shake Content | Ex LinkedIn | I help CEOs, execs, VCs & brands stand out and build authority on LinkedIn

Had a great catch-up with Jason Jung 정세진 at the Netflix office yesterday. 

We first met when I was at LinkedIn and he was at TikTok. Now he’s at Netflix and I’m building Shake. 

Funny how much changes, and how much doesn’t.

Still talking creators, content and platforms… just with different logos behind us.

Grateful for friends who work at places with great offices and free snacks 😆

It's not just you. More people are actually spending time on LinkedIn now.

And I'm weirdly happy about that.

I spent 4 years at LinkedIn, and a big part of what my team pushed for (even if it was never officially called this) was changing the premise that people only used the platform to look for a job.

And you can see it now. 

People scrolling on the tube/subway. Checking in daily (sometimes just for the games). Athletes sharing opinions, not just sponsorships. Founders talking openly about what's working and what isn't.

The WSJ shared an interesting article this week.

Apparently, inside LinkedIn there were constant debates about whether the platform should allow handles instead of real names.

And according to Gyanda Sachdeva (VP of Product), the question kept coming up: “Should we add handles?”

But the team always came back to the same answer — stick with real identities to protect trust.

And I'm glad they did.

Because when your name and reputation are attached to what you post, you show up differently. You think a bit more. You try to add something useful. 

That’s also why founder-led marketing works so well here.

LinkedIn isn’t perfect, but sticking with real identities might be one of the smartest decisions they ever made.

Full article here (worth the read) - https://lnkd.in/ewZ32kXJ

Everyone keeps asking me:

Should we invest in organic or paid on LinkedIn?

(and I think we're asking the wrong question)

They're not competing strategies, they work together.

Organic is your audition.
Test your messages, angles, and formats with 'zero' risk. See what actually makes people stop scrolling. What gets real comments, not just friendly likes. What people save or share.

If something doesn't work organically, paid won't save it. You'll just pay to help more people ignore it.

Paid is your amplifier.
Once you know what resonates, that's when you invest. Put budget behind what's already proven. Extend its reach. Get it in front of more of the right people.

Now you're not guessing (you are just scaling what works).

Most companies do this backwards. They create something, skip the test, and immediately spend money promoting it. Then they're surprised when it underperforms.

The issue usually isn't the targeting. It's that the message was never validated.

Better approach:
Let your audience tell you what's working first. 

Then amplify it.

Adam Mosseri just dropped 1,000+ words on AI's impact on creators and social media.

The most important line (imo) was:

'The internet already shifted power from institutions to individuals'

He's talking about Instagram - but this shift is already happening on LinkedIn.

CEOs are outperforming their company pages by 10x
Founder posts get more engagement than brand campaigns
Executive voices drive more pipeline than corporate content

As AI makes content easy to produce, what becomes scarce is: perspective

Real stories, real insights from real people.

The question shifts from 'can you create?' to 'can you create something only you could create?'

That's exactly what founder-led content does.

Your career pivots
Your failures
Your 3am decisions.

AI can replicate format but it can’t replicate lived experience.

This is the premise behind our work at Shake Content

Not because it’s trendy.. but because when everything looks the same, who it comes from is what matters.

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Adam's full post here: OP Here: https://t.co/VGruvVXiSQ

The “who” is becoming more important than the “what”

What you say matters. But who says it now matters more.

This is the biggest shift I am seeing in 2026.

In the age of AI, credibility beats content.

Recent data shows that AI systems like ChatGPT and Perplexity are now citing LinkedIn 4–6x more than they were just a few months ago. And around 80% of those citations come from content written by real people on LinkedIn (not company pages).

That’s big.

AI isn’t only asking: Is this information relevant? It is asking: Who is saying this, and should I trust them?

LinkedIn makes that easy. Your role. Your experience. Your track record. Your network. All verifiable in seconds.

Which means the internet is shifting from: 
websites as sources → people as sources.

This is becoming one of the most important priorities for our clients, and exactly why, at Shake Content, we focus so heavily on founder and executive voice.

Source: https://lnkd.in/ezWsTazM

More context. Less urgency.

My friend George Mack once shared this take that went viral.. and honestly, it’s pretty bang on.

For a long time, I saw that as a bad thing about LinkedIn.

Boring. 
Too slow.
Always catching up.
Not where new ideas start.

But lately.. I have started to see it differently.

Maybe LinkedIn isn’t where things break first. But it might be the best place to actually make sense of them.

There are plenty of places to spot trends early: Twitter/X, Reddit, TikTok, Discord, group chats, wherever.

We're drowning in real-time takes. Every platform is racing to be first. Everyone is trying to go viral. 

LinkedIn's 'slowness' is starting to feel like the thing we might actually need.

So yeah, George is right. If it's big on LinkedIn, you're definitely late. 

But late to the hype means early to the insight.

We don't talk enough about the work we do with our clients.

So here's what happened when we partnered with shipshape.vc & Daniel Sawko.

Shipshape is an investor search engine that's helped 4,000+ companies raise over £1bn. They aggregate data from 25,000+ global funds and layer in private growth signals to show founders where capital is actually moving.

Their CEO, Daniel, had a strong LinkedIn presence but was frustrated by how much time quality content required. The platform had genuinely differentiated data, but the challenge was making that value immediately clear to both founders raising capital and institutional buyers.

What we focused on:
We stripped away feature-heavy messaging and built founder-led storytelling around:
- Why private growth signals matter in fundraising
- How attribution and precision targeting translate into ROI
- Making complex value propositions instantly understandable

Content became a dual-purpose asset - educating at the top of the funnel while supporting mid-cycle sales conversations.

The results over 4 months:
60% increase in impressions
44% increase in engagements 
13% follower growth 
30% uplift in platform signups vs. the prior period

That last metric is the one that matters. The content didn't just build awareness.. it drove adoption.

As Daniel put it: "We've got relevant insights to share, but finding the time was always challenging. Working with Shake Content has made content easy - we're producing studio-grade video content and tapping into new channels like YouTube."

This is what happens when you turn a technically powerful product into clear, consistent storytelling. Content becomes a growth driver, not just a brand exercise.

Excited to see where Shipshape goes next.

The full case study is here: https://lnkd.in/e-a_uJHZ

Hot take for 2026:

Your company shouldn’t act like a corporate page.
It should operate like ESPN.

ESPN doesn’t just run one show announcing scores. They have:
1/ First Take (debate and hot takes)
2/ SportsCenter (news + highlights)
3/ 30 for 30 (deep storytelling)
4/ Around the Horn (rotating expert panels)

Each show has distinct personalities. People tune in for Stephen A. Smith not 'ESPN Corporate Communications'

So why is your LinkedIn strategy just one bland corporate feed?

📺 Here’s the play for 2026
- Your VP of Product should be breaking down roadmap decisions like they're analyzing draft picks

- Your Lead Designer should be showing works-in-progress and debating design philosophy like it's film study

- Your Customer Success team should be sharing war stories from the trenches (not just case studies)

- Your Data Scientist should be dropping insights that make people stop scrolling

One corporate voice = changing the channel
Multiple expert voices = must-watch content

Give your experts their own shows. Let them have a point of view. Let them disagree with each other sometimes. Let them be interesting.

Nobody remembers the NBA's official press releases.

But everyone remembers the analysts who had something real to say about the game.

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