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What happened: Ibrahim Noon, 20, joined San Francisco venture capital firm Forerunner as an associate after applying to a role whose application had been paused for more than two months. Key numbers: Noon is 20, graduated from UC Berkeley in May, and has about 6,000 LinkedIn connections. He sent 250 outbound messages a day during a Wall Street internship. Why it matters: Noon said keeping the right relationships warm mattered more than a large number of LinkedIn connections, and his case study required mapping his network for Forerunner's benefit.

Ibrahim Noon, 20, joined San Francisco venture capital firm Forerunner as an associate after applying to a role whose application had been paused for more than two months.

Noon said keeping the right relationships warm mattered more than a large number of LinkedIn connections, and his case study required mapping his network for Forerunner's benefit.