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About LinkedIn

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Company History

Statistics

Culture and Values

Leadership

Company History

2002

LinkedIn starts out in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman. LinkedIn's founders are Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly and Jean-Luc Vaillant.

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2003

In late 2002, Reid recruits a team of old colleagues from SocialNet and Paypal to work on a new idea, and six months later, LinkedIn is officially launched. Growth is slow at first—as few as 20 signups on some days—but, by the fall, it shows enough promise to attract an investment from Sequoia Capital.

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2011

LinkedIn celebrates its eighth anniversary, and becomes a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. President Obama partners with LinkedIn for a town hall on job creation and economic growth.

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2013

LinkedIn turns 10 and reaches 225 million members. Company is growing at more than two members per second, with member milestones across the globe.

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2016

Microsoft completes acquisition of LinkedIn, and our next play begins. Joining forces with Microsoft will accelerate our mission to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful, and ultimately help create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.

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2017

LinkedIn launches largest desktop redesign since company's inception. This complete overhaul of our technology architecture ensures we deliver a simplified LinkedIn experience that's faster, easier to navigate, and more intuitive.

Statistics

Headquarters

LinkedIn's global headquarters are in Sunnyvale, California, with Europe, Middle East and Africa headquarters in Dublin and Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore.

LinkedIn U.S. offices are in Carpinteria, Chicago, Detroit, Mountain View, New York, Omaha, San Francisco, Sunnyvale and Washington D.C.

International LinkedIn offices are located in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Beijing, Berlin, Dubai, Dublin, Graz, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Melbourne, Milan, Mumbai, Munich, New Delhi, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.

Languages

LinkedIn is currently available in 24 languages: Arabic, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai and Turkish.

Employees

LinkedIn has more than 14,000 full-time employees (more than 5,500 in the San Francisco Bay Area) with offices in more than 30 cities around the world.

Worldwide membership

• LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 630 million members in over 200 countries and territories.
• Professionals are signing up to join LinkedIn at a rate of more than two new members per second.
• More than 70 percent of our members are outside the U.S.

Economic Graph

• More than 630M members
• More than 30M companies represented on LinkedIn
• More than 20M open jobs on LinkedIn Jobs
• 90K schools listed
• 35K skills listed

Regional membership

177+M North America
198+M Europe, Middle East and Africa
165+M Asia Pacific
90+M Latin America

Culture and Values

Our culture is our foundation.

We take great pride in our LinkedIn culture. It is the collective personality of our organization. It sets us apart, defines who we are and shapes what we aspire to be. With that, there are five pillars we strive to uphold that underscore what we do and how we do it: transformation, integrity, collaboration, humor and results.

Our values define us.

Our values have grown to define us. It's one thing to change the world. It's another to do it in our own unique way: Members first. Relationships matter. Be open, honest and constructive. Demand excellence. Take intelligent risks. Act like an owner.

Leadership

Jeff Weiner

Chief Executive Officer

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Shannon Brayton

Chief Marketing Officer

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Blake Lawit

General Counsel

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Christina Hall

Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer

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Ryan Roslansky

Senior Vice President, Product

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Mohak Shroff

Senior Vice President, Engineering

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Steve Sordello

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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Dan Shapero

Vice President, Global Solutions

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