Buy-Side Insights: The Most Underrated Advice I Got Before Spinning Out as a PM

It sounded trivial — “update your LinkedIn.” Years later, I realized it was the key to building a winning team.

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Doug Garber
November 16, 2025

When I was preparing to spin-out as a PM, the Head of Business Development (BD) gave me a key piece of advice:

“Update your LinkedIn profile.”

I didn’t fully take his advice until now.
And now I’ve taken that advice to an entirely new level.

The LinkedIn community has opened so many potential opportunities to connect with amazing talent.

I’ve enjoyed reconnecting with former peers and some of them have really benefited from the intros to PM’s or SMA’s!

Because here’s the truth nobody tells PMs before they spin out:

Your long-term success and staying power will depend on WHO you hire — more than WHAT you invest in each quarter.

There’s a reason people say:
“The PM picks the analysts. The analysts pick the stocks.”

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