Sasan Goodarzi vs Ryan Roslansky

Sasan Goodarzi

CEO of Intuit

BIO: Sasan Goodarzi is the CEO of Intuit. Serving in the role since January 1, 2019, he leads the company in delivering on its mission of powering prosperity across the globe by leveraging Intuit’s global technology platform to help consumers and small businesses overcome their most important financial challenges with TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, Credit Karma and Mailchimp. Since joining Intuit in 2004, Goodarzi has successfully led each of the company’s largest businesses. Goodarzi came to the United States from Iran when he was a child and grew up in Orlando, Florida. He has two children and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife.

Ryan Roslansky

CEO of LinkedIn

BIO: Ryan Roslansky is the CEO of LinkedIn, the world’s largest and most powerful network of professionals. Ryan joined the company in May 2009 and has since held leadership roles in every part of LinkedIn’s business. He led the evolution of LinkedIn’s products into a single, holistic, global ecosystem of more than 690 million members, 50 million companies, 90 thousand schools and 36 thousand skills. Under his leadership, LinkedIn has also seen record levels of engagement on the platform and accelerated growth across the company. Most recently, Ryan held the role of global head of product where he oversaw all teams responsible for building and creating the next generation of LinkedIn products and experiences. He set the company’s product strategy and oversaw product development, user experience, business development, and customer operations. Prior to his head of product role, Ryan held leadership positions across the R&D organization, helping to launch groundbreaking new experiences for consumers and customers, including the simplification of the new LinkedIn desktop design and flagship mobile app, the launch of LinkedIn Learning, as well as the debut of our Influencer program and content platform. He has also played pivotal roles across the company’s key acquisitions, including Lynda.com, SlideShare, and Pulse. Ryan also serves on the board of directors for GoDaddy Inc. Before LinkedIn, Ryan was senior vice president of products and content at Glam Media, and held various product and general management positions at Yahoo!, including spearheading the acquisition of Overture in 2003.