Martin Kleppmann

So we were like a little bit stuck there and selling the company seemed like the least bad option there in a way.

And I'm pretty happy how it turned out because LinkedIn was great actually.

They were very good to us.

They allowed us to operate as essentially like a independent team within the company.

So your team stayed together?

Our team stayed together.

We continued working on the product that we wanted to make.

Oh, so you got to keep working on Reportive?

Yes.

Well, actually,

So report of the Gmail browser extension sort of got put on live support, but we were working on a new product at the time, which did eventually get released under the name LinkedIn Intro.

It kind of got a slightly weird reception at the time, and it ended up getting shut down shortly after we released it.

There's kind of longer background story there, but...

I'm still really happy with LinkedIn, like how they gave us the freedom to do this and allowed us to launch this product.

And even though it didn't succeed, you know, they were very good to us throughout that process.

And then after that got shut down, then our team got disbanded.

But we had a good run within LinkedIn building this product.

What tech stack did you work at the time?

What did you use?

The Reportive was fairly unexciting.