Post by Erran Berger

In 2009 I joined LinkedIn as a senior software engineer. Today I become its CTO, Engineering - an opportunity I don’t take lightly. I couldn’t have imagined then what this moment would look like. The transformation underway now goes beyond software; it’s reshaping the fundamental nature of work itself. And yet here I am, at what I believe is the most significant inflection point in the software industry in a generation. The companies that navigate it well will be defined by how clearly they see the shift and how deliberately they move. Technology underpins both more than in any prior moment. The last few years have had a startup-era intensity I haven’t felt since LinkedIn’s early days: every decision matters, the margin for error is thin, and the stakes are real... but I suspect years from now, this will be the work I’m most proud of. Day one. Let’s build.