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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 social media 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]
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]
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.
Facebook, the most popular social networking service to-date, launches. [24] 2004 Launch Flickr, an image and video hosting website, launches. [25] 2004 Launch Orkut, a social networking website owned by Google, launches. [26] 2004 Launch Tagged, a social discovery website, launches. [4] 2005 Launch Bebo, a social networking website, launches ...
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.
Lynda Susan Weinman (born January 24, 1955) is an American business owner, computer instructor, and author, who founded an online software training website, lynda.com, with her husband, Bruce Heavin. [1] Lynda.com was acquired by online business network LinkedIn in April 2015 for $1.5 billion (~$1.89 billion in 2023).