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LinkedIn for technical founders
Most technical founders treat LinkedIn as a chore. It's now their single most effective marketing channel — and the cost of avoiding it has gone up.
Technical founders tend to dislike LinkedIn — the tone, the engagement bait, the polished motivational posts. That's all real. It's also where their actual buyers are reading, and where the marketing leverage has quietly moved.
What works without the cringe
- Specific stories from your own work — not hypotheticals or motivational lessons.
- Strong opinions about your domain that you can actually defend.
- Replies to other people's posts — engagement compounds.
- Consistency over virality — a few posts a week beats a viral hit every quarter.
The cost of avoiding it
Your competitors are reaching the same buyers there, with less actual expertise. Ceding the surface costs you mindshare. You don't have to like the platform to do the minimum that puts you in the conversation.
You don't have to enjoy LinkedIn. You do have to show up, because your buyers are already there.