3. Founder : Reid Hoffman
Founded in December,2002 and launched
in May 5, 2003
4. LINKEDIN is for a new way of doing Business.
Ten years on, LinkedIn has established itself as an
international company, with more than 3,700 employees
around the world, including in Mountain View, California,
Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong
Kong, Milan, Mumbai, Paris, Toronto and several others.
It is available in 19 different languages — besides English,
there’s Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian,
Spanish, Swedish, and more
INFORMATION
6. The existing way of finding a
job and making connections
is just not working anymore.
There’s an adage that says
“It’s not what you know, it’s
who you know.”
“ Networks are valuable.
Is a job candidate honest or
hard-working? You can’t
tell from a resume or even
from an interview. That’s
why people fall back on
trusted relationships.”
7.
8. Cofounder, Mr. Blue said that LinkedIn’s role has always
been to help every professional find a job that they love and
be great at it.
He believes that soon there will be a world where “people are
doing what they love, and not just because they have no other
choice available ”
In the past decade, LinkedIn has surely changed the
networking paradigm that millions of people were
accustomed to. It offers more context into not only what we
can share about our professional accolades, but also learn
about new opportunities, companies, and the people we want
to be connected with.
Allen Blue’s words
10. Guericke once spoke with Bloomberg Business week and
described what made LinkedIn different from those traditional
social networks:
“It doesn’t come from networking; it just comes automatically.
Gradually people do tend to lose touch even if they are at same
place. So LinkedIn is one such platform in this fast advancing
world to stay in touch and get ideas not just from people around
you instead from all over the world “
FEW REVIEWS
11. In June 2012, cryptographic hashes of approximately
6.4 million users passwords were stolen by hackers who
then published the stolen hashes online.
Security experts criticized LinkedIn for not SALTING
their password profile and instead using a single
iteration of SHA-1
LinkedIn doesn’t have a spell checker.
BUMP IN THE ROAD AND SOME FEW
DRAWBACKS
12. It took LinkedIn a year to reach 1 million registered
users and seven years later, the company reached
100 million.
This number still falls short of other social networks
like Google+, Facebook, and Twitter, but having that
there are many people focused on professional
development instead of just simply telling the world
what they had for breakfast .
100 MILLION MEMBERS
