4. Reid Hoffman
Founder, LinkedIn (Since 2003)
Born Reid Garrett Hoffman
August 5, 1967 (age 49)
Palo Alto, California, US
Residence Palo Alto, California, US
Alma mater Stanford University(B.S.)
Oxford University (M.St.)
Occupation Executive Chairman,
LinkedIn, VC Partner at
Greylock
Website www.reidhoffman.org
5. JEFFREY WEINER
CEO, LinkedIn (Since 2009)
Born February 21,
1970 (age 46)
New York City, New York
United States
Residence California United States
Alma mater University of
Pennsylvania B.S (1992)
Occupation CEO of LinkedIn
Website Jeff Weiner on LinkedIn
12. LinkedIn is a business and employment-
oriented social networking service that operates
via websites.
Founded on December 14, 2002, and launched
on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional
networking, including employers posting jobs
and job seekers posting their CVs.
As of March 2016, LinkedIn has more than 433
million accounts, out of which more than 106
million are active.
13. LinkedIn allows users (workers and
employers) to create profiles and "connections"
to each other in an online social network which
may represent real-world professional
relationships.
Users can invite anyone (whether a site user
or not) to become a connection.
The site has an Alexa Internet ranking as the
14th most popular website (October 2016).
27. Number Acquisition date Company Business
1 August 4, 2010 mspoke
Adaptive
personalization of
content
2 September 23, 2010 ChoiceVendor Social B2B Reviews
3 January 26, 2011 CardMunch Social Contacts
4 October 5, 2011 Connected Social CRM
5 October 11, 2011 IndexTank Social search
6 February 22, 2012 Rapportive Social Contacts
7 May 3, 2012 SlideShare Social Content
8 April 11, 2013 Pulse
Web / Mobile
newsreader
Achievements And Other Services Of
LinkedIn
28. =
Number Acquisition date Company Business
9 February 6, 2014 Bright.com Job Matching
10 July 14, 2014 Newsle Web application
11 July 22, 2014 Bizo Web application
12 March 16, 2015 Careerify Web application
13 April 2, 2015 Refresh.io Web application
14 April 9, 2015 Lynda.com eLearning
15 August 28, 2015 Fliptop
Predictive Sales and
Marketing Firm
16 February 4, 2016 Connectifier Web application
17 July 26, 2016 PointDrive Web application