Moving Trucks and Birthday Cakes
This weekend, LinkedIn celebrates two milestones: first, after outgrowing our current Palo Alto digs, we’re moving to our fifth office (not counting Reid’s living room). We’ll be back in Mountain View, just down the road from the office where we originally launched LinkedIn — an office that we once shared with Friendster.
The other milestone is the fourth anniversary of LinkedIn’s launch on May 5, 2003. I remember “Cinco de LinkedIn” fondly: it started with the founding team signing up, connecting to each other and then inviting the first wave of users to LinkedIn. My wife (then girlfriend) was our first non-employee user so, for about ten minutes, I actually had more connections than Reid! (That didn’t last.)
Growth was slow and steady in the early days: we had 2,500 users after the first week, 6,000 after the first month, and 37,000 after the first six months. By comparison, last week alone we added more than 130,000 new users.
To mark the anniversary, we thought it would be fun to share some screenshots of how LinkedIn looked when it launched. Reid once said, “if you’re not embarrassed by your first release, then you launched too late.” I don’t remember being embarrassed at the time, but four years later, I’ll admit that these screens make me wince. It’s like flipping through my high school yearbook — did we really look like that?
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LinkedIn Home (before sign in), May 2003 -
LinkedIn Home (after sign in), May 2003
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anna saccheri May 5th, 2007
Happy Cinco de LinkedIn!!!
Mario Sundar May 5th, 2007
Hi Anna,
Good to hear from one of our first LinkedIn users! Happy Cinco de LinkedIn!
Tanmoy Palit May 30th, 2007
To be honest, these screens aren’t really bad.
Anyways, great job guys!
And Happy Anniversary!
steve dunkerley May 31st, 2007
Allowing connections to view the rest of your connections list
Some of my connections I fully trust and really want to share my contacts with them – other connections I don’t know that well but am happy to connect with – or I know well – but are are those people I may be in slight competition with (and don’t really want them to have my full connections list)
Instead of an “all or nothing” approach to allowing connections to view the rest of your connections list or not – can we have a more selective approach – whereby you give full access to Bob – but no partial access to John
Is this possible alreay – if not please advise
Birthday Cakes February 18th, 2009
Yea, Does not look that bad! I have been a member of linkedin for quite sometime now and you definitely have the potential!
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