Posts by James Raybould

When you’re looking for a new job, chances are you want to work for a company with a brand you love and a mission you believe in. There are millions of companies around the world, but only a few that rise to the top of your list of dream employers. We want to help you expand that list by leveraging LinkedIn’s massive professional dataset. Last year, we...

" If managing a hyper-growth tech startup in Silicon Valley is like launching a rocket, then the fuel is a mix of venture capital funding and engineering talent. The right group of engineers can thrust a startup to a sky-high valuation - which then attracts even more funding and talent - eventually pushing select startups into billion-dollar orbit. Last year, we...

In today’s Silicon Valley, engineering talent is as sought after by companies as gold was by the first prospectors in the Wild West. Talent is a company’s most important asset, so we decided to use LinkedIn’s data insights to discover which startups are grabbing the attention of San Francisco Bay Area engineers. In the Bay Area alone, there are more than 240,000...