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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. [1] 2004: May: Competition: Viadeo – a social networking site for business owners, entrepreneurs and managers – is launched in France. [3 ...
LinkedIn (/ l ɪ ŋ k t ˈ ɪ n /) is a business and employment-focused online professional platform that works through websites and mobile apps. It was launched on May 5, 2003 by Reid Hoffman and Eric Ly. [4] Since December 2016, LinkedIn has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. [5]
[8] [22] LinkedIn launched on May 5, 2003 as one of the first business-oriented online social networks. [23] Peter Thiel , a colleague of Hoffman's at PayPal, invested in LinkedIn. At the time of LinkedIn's IPO on May 19, 2011, Hoffman owned a stake worth an estimated $2.34 billion, not including any potential benefits from Greylock Partners ...
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]
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.
On 11 April 2013 it was announced [14] as previously rumoured [15] that LinkedIn had purchased Pulse from Alphonso Labs for $90 million. [16] In the beginning of November 2013, version 4.0 was launched, integrating the Pulse app and LinkedIn. Along with the integration was a massive UI overhaul that was met largely by negative reviews by ...
The Lynda.com Online Training Library taught computer skills in video format to members through monthly and annual subscription-based plans. The company was founded in Ojai, California and has since moved to Ventura and Carpinteria, California, where, as of 2013, it employed nearly 500 full-time staff members and more than 140 teachers who earn royalties from their shared revenue model. [14]
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.