PM Grows 50K LinkedIn Followers in Six Months and Now Gets Five Job Offers Weekly
aakashgupta · x · 2026-09-13
Product manager Basia Kubicka has never applied for a job, yet gets five real offers a week in LinkedIn DMs — some roles were created after recruiters read her profile. She grew from 0 to 50K followers in six months (70K now), quit her full-time job, and opens her DMs on camera to prove it.
Key takeaways:
- Her first six months flopped: one post got 12 likes and a former colleague said her content read like spam; she nearly quit.
- The turnaround: running her career like a product. Most PMs treat their profile as a resume; she treats it as a landing page, because a hiring manager meets you only three ways — your post in their feed, your comment on their post, or a recruiter's boolean search.
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