New LinkedIn CEO: Jeff Weiner has updated his profile
Jeff Weiner has updated his profile from President to CEO of LinkedIn.
Six months ago, Jeff started at LinkedIn running our day-to-day operations as President of the company. During that time we’ve achieved record operating and financial results. Prior to LinkedIn, Jeff was an Executive in Residence at Accel Partners and Greylock Partners. Previously, he spent over seven years in key leadership roles at Yahoo!, managing businesses and products that reached over half a billion consumers worldwide. Jeff’s experience building multiple products on a global scale is highly relevant to LinkedIn and will be critical as we continue to grow the LinkedIn professional network around the world.
I look forward to working with Jeff as he leads the company. He and I share the same vision for Linkedin: connecting the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. In the new world of work, every professional should establish their own brand online; every professional engages their network in order to connect with the people and information they need to compete and succeed.
While Jeff leads the company, I will focus on some big picture strategic issues for Linkedin – how Linkedin evolves to become more and more essential to professionals seeking to stay informed and find the right resources to accomplish their tasks fast and effectively.
We’re very excited about Jeff’s role as CEO, leading the company towards helping all professionals become connected and successful.
Reid Hoffman
Founder & Executive Chairman
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Mike Speiser June 24th, 2009
Awesome! Congratulations to LinkedIn and to Jeff – big win all around.
Donna Lee Laue June 24th, 2009
Congratulations Jeff!
owais zareef June 24th, 2009
All the best Jeff, good going great work :-)
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Paul Wylie June 25th, 2009
Congrats Jeff! LinkedIn has experienced tremendous growth and has impacted the corporate world. Not to long ago we would never had gotten out of our corporate closets to open ourselves, our brand, our company to the world.
LinkedIn has become the accepted de-facto of the business environment. When can we expect integration with other platforms Twitter, Facebook? Realtime search is now a reality how is LinkedIn going to adapt?
Burt Steingraeber June 29th, 2009
Jeff,
Wishing you great success in the continued success of Linkedin.
laurie schloff July 3rd, 2009
bravo Jeff
I’ve grown very comfortable with linked in. My field is communication coaching, and we encourage our clients to expand their professional people network primarily though linked in. I was shy at first, but now find linkedIn full of opportunities, contacts and surprises
Best, Laurie Schlofff
Mark Anderson July 7th, 2009
I believe part of what makes LinkedIn so successful is the important role it plays for individuals regardless of where they reside on the corporate ladder. I’d be curious to hear which LinkedIn features Jeff uses most frequently as a corporate leader.
Victor Krivenko November 18th, 2009
Congratulations Jeff!