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The Founder Feed

Turn the founder and the team into the company's media channel, posting what they know from the inside.

The original

Gong, the revenue intelligence company, used its LinkedIn page as a media channel rather than a noticeboard, with very short, high-quality video clips and contests and giveaways featuring real employees. LinkedIn's case study reports that after one month followers had risen 85%, comments 6,893% and shares 108%, and its first video passed 17,000 views (LinkedIn case study, undated). It gives no pipeline figure.

At a smaller scale, Storylane, with about $8 million in annual recurring revenue, had 17 of its roughly 50 staff posting, and its marketing lead says LinkedIn now drives more than half of pipeline (Favikon, 4 June 2026).

+85%
Gong page followers in one month
+6,893%
comments in the same month
50%+
of Storylane's pipeline from LinkedIn (self-reported)

Best for

B2B companies, SaaS and professional services whose founder or experts know something buyers want to know.

Why it works

Buyers trust a named expert more than a logo, and LinkedIn's feed is built around people: in DSMN8's feed test, posts from company pages made up 5.37% of the feed, against 42.44% from first-degree connections (DSMN8, updated September 2026). Posts with substance travel furthest: document and multi-image posts averaged 6.40% engagement by impression in the third quarter of 2026, against 2.50% for link posts (Socialinsider).

How it runs

  1. Pick the founder and two or three experts who know things buyers want to know.
  2. Give each a theme and a weekly slot: one post each, written from real work.
  3. Build posts from your own data, deals and mistakes, not from industry news.
  4. Reply to every comment in the first hour, and comment on buyers' posts daily.
  5. Put a light offer in the profile, not in every post.
  6. Track profile visits and inbound messages from target accounts each month.

Proof

Vendor. Gong's figures from a LinkedIn case study. Self-reported. Storylane's figures via Favikon (June 2026).

Cost to test, and when to stop

Cost to test. No media spend. Two to three hours a week per person for a quarter.

Kill it if after three months no target account has engaged or messaged.

Watch-outs

Engagement is not pipeline: ask every new lead where they found you. Ghostwritten posts that sound like everyone else fail, so every post must contain something only you know. Staff posting needs permission, not pressure.

Pairs with

Boost the Founder, Engager Mining, Podcast as Business Development

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