Celebrating our 6th birthday with 40 million users!
On Cinco de Mayo, we celebrated our 6th birthday AND welcomed our 40 millionth member to the LinkedIn network! With two great reasons to celebrate, employees invited their families to come to the office for an afternoon fiesta. There were popsicles and margaritas, pin the tail on the donkey and a scavenger hunt, cupcakes and tacos, mini sombreros and big fun for adults and kids alike!
As we celebrate success, we keep top of mind the importance of supporting our community. For this event, we partnered with the Bring Me A Book Foundation who provides libraries of high quality children’s books and read aloud workshops to under served communities. Did you know reading aloud to children at an early age is the single most important activity for building eventual success in reading AND two-thirds of all low-income families and most low-income childcare centers and preschools have zero age-appropriate books? Yes, that’s a zero!
Employees graciously donated over $1,400 dollars to donate two bookcases for local pre-schools in Mountain View! Keeping with our fiesta theme, the bookcases will be bilingual with Spanish and English books. Thanks to Bring Me A Book for all the fabulous work they do throughout the year and for partnering with us.
Thanks to Alice’s Restaurant for catering the food & drinks and to Kara’s Cupcakes in Palo Alto for providing 600 yummy mini cupcakes…if you haven’t had the banana caramel you should definitely try it – it was our favorite!
Thanks to all our members, our employees and their families for another great year! Olé!
Check out the rest of the pictures taken at the birthday party here
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Celebrating our 6th birthday with 40 million users! | CITI Recruitment May 13th, 2009
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Marty Mallavibarrena May 13th, 2009
Dear friends. I’m a raving fan of LinkedIn in Spain and I use your site every single day.
Congratulations from Europe and a great “Well Done!!”.
Thanks for LinkedIN (and for the spanish interface).
Marty
Ignacio Villoch May 13th, 2009
Happy Birthday! and congratulations. 40 M is an awesome benchmark!!
I am proud of being part and belonging tu such a community!
Christopher Gassner Sr. May 13th, 2009
Wow….40m members in just 6 years. I can only imagine the percentage of growth has been staggering the last year, so great job on delivering an excellent product. The strategy and execution of your product roadmap has been virtually flawless thus far! Here’s to another 40m in the next 6 years, though you’ll likely eclipse the mark sooner.
Cheers ~ Chris
Patricia Mirao May 14th, 2009
Thanks for sharing this with us all it is so good to actually put faces to the “screens”, makes it so much more personal in a world that is becoming ever more impersonal!
I now think of LinkedIn in a totally different way!
Keep up your excellent job and of course CONGRATULATIONS all the way from Portugal
Anjaneya Alurkar May 14th, 2009
Congratulations Folks!!
My best wishes to you all and I hope Linkedin keeps growing. I am loving every moment of being part of this large Linkedin family of 40M users….. Keep up the good work.
Regards,
Anjaneya Alurkar
Amrutha Ragavan May 18th, 2009
Congratulations! 40 M is a big number and the exciting thing is that there is a lot more to go!.
I had a quick suggestion. While searching among contacts, we currently have sort by location and sort by industry. Could we get a field that is ’sort by company’? This field could be populated with ‘Company’ titles from each person’s profile. It would make it much easier this way to reach out to our colleagues (former and current) in one shot.
Also, is there an address I can email my suggestions to?
Thanks!
Amrutha
Dirk Frey May 19th, 2009
@ Amrutha- Yes you can click on the feedback link at the top of most any page when you are logged in. This information goes straight to the product teams and is reviewed on a regular basis for trends and consideration for future releases. Keep sharing your ideas with us!
-Dirk
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jose Luis Rosales May 20th, 2009
Viva Linkedin!
I love you are on the Cinco de Linkedin theme!, this has been an invaluable tool for my practice and still there´s is to much in the scope to do.
Also I advocate in my teaching and professional practice that my peers join the net, it makes life easier.
best wishes and keep the good effort!
John Fowler May 28th, 2009
Congratulations on 40M in just 6 years! Your website has played an integral role in my networking and job search, words can’t describe. As an independent career consultant, I’m sharing my expertise with institutions of higher education. Awesome tool!
Cheers to success!
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Nakul Goyal June 6th, 2009
Happy Birthday Linkedin. It’s easy to copy ideas but it’s very difficult to create an idea like what Linkedin.com did. Kudos to the entire team.
Ashley K. Edwards June 17th, 2009
Happy belated Birthday, LinkedIn! Looks like you guys had an awesome time – glad to see other companies celebrate their achievements.
Ashish Kumar Gupta January 14th, 2010
Belated wishes to LinkedIn. Best wishes for the NEW YEAR.
Great Job. I do LinkedIn each and every day, you have become a part of my life now.
Thanks Team LinkedIn