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Year Month and date Event type Details 2002: December 14: Company: LinkedIn is founded by Reid Hoffman and 4 other friends. [1]2003: May 5: Company: LinkedIn cofounders send invitations, launching LinkedIn.
Founded in Mountain View, California, LinkedIn is currently headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with 36 global offices as of February 11, 2024. [ 11 ] [ 1 ] In February 2024, the company had around 18,500 employees .
Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and author.Hoffman is the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking.
In 2002, Ly co-founded LinkedIn with Reid Hoffman, a Stanford schoolmate, and several other co-founders, including Jean-Luc Vaillant, Allen Blue, and Konstantin Guericke. When Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in 2016 for $26.2B, it was the world's "largest social networking site focused on the working world" with more than 400 million registered users.
It is a subsidiary of LinkedIn. All the courses on LinkedIn fall into four categories: Business, Creative, Technology, and Certifications. It was founded in 1995 by Lynda Weinman as Lynda.com before being acquired by LinkedIn in 2015 and becoming LinkedIn Learning. [2] Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in December 2016. [3]
He started with LinkedIn on December 15, 2008, [1] as Interim President. [2] Weiner played an instrumental role in LinkedIn's acquisition by Microsoft for $26 billion (~$32.4 billion in 2023) in June 2016. [3] Currently, he is the Executive chairman of Linkedin as of 2022. He is also the founding Partner of Next play venture capital.
In 2015, Roslansky was a key part of the $1.5 billion (~$1.89 billion in 2023) acquisition of Lynda.com, the largest acquisition in LinkedIn's history at that time. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft and Linkedin pledged to upskill 25 million workers [8] and in 2021, has surpassed that number.
However, Reid Hoffman was too busy launching LinkedIn so he set Facebook up with PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who gave Facebook its first investment later that month. [33] [34] In 2005, the company dropped "the" from its name after purchasing the domain name Facebook.com for US$200,000 ($312,012 in 2023 dollars [20]). [35]