> Then I realized top 5% isn’t really that significant.
It's 1 out of 20. Is that significant or not? Depends on your perspective. But it certainly is not objectively insignificant.
> And I noticed from their letter that LinkedIn has 200M members. 5% of 200M is 10M.
And if there were 1B linkedin users, it would be even more. But 5% is still 1 out of 20. Again, if you find that impressive or not is up to you, but it is a very clear, nonmisrepresented percentage.
Obviously 5% is 1 in 20. But 5% of what? All accounts ever created on LinkedIn? Really curious about their MAU. I'd bet it's something like 20M. Meaning, if you're in the "top" you're really just one of the people that uses LinkedIn regularly :)
In any case I find the campaign to be extremely effective. Making 20M people feel special is impressive.
It's 1 out of 20. Is that significant or not? Depends on your perspective. But it certainly is not objectively insignificant.
> And I noticed from their letter that LinkedIn has 200M members. 5% of 200M is 10M.
And if there were 1B linkedin users, it would be even more. But 5% is still 1 out of 20. Again, if you find that impressive or not is up to you, but it is a very clear, nonmisrepresented percentage.