Today marks an important milestone in LinkedIn’s history – we started trading at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) – following our recent IPO filing. Our stock symbol is LNKD (as you may have guessed from this post) and we’ve announced our initial public offering of 7,840,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $45.00 per share.
Check out pictures at the NYSE bell ringing ceremony from earlier today
Ed. note: This post is a part of our continuing blog series featuring our colleagues’ stories. Today, we hear from our very own Armen Vartanian – Manager of our Facilities Project Management Group – who not only spends his days managing the Health and Wellness needs at LinkedIn, but also training for the Olympics. Yesterday, he led Team LinkedIn to a record breaking win at this year’s Bay to Breakers. Here’s Armen…
Over this past weekend, I got to share my passion for running with my LinkedIn colleagues at the 100th Bay to Breakers in San Francisco. For the second year in a row, we organized a team of elite runners attempting to set a new course record for the “World’s Fastest Centipede”. Not only did we break the course record by 0:40 seconds yesterday, but we also set a world record coming in an official time of 37:00. Even more gratifying was LinkedIn’s strong overall presence, with about 100 employees who registered for the sold-out course.
As we celebrated LinkedIn’s eighth birthday on Cinco de Mayo this past week, I think back to LinkedIn’s birthday celebrations over the years. I had just started in the newly formed sales team the August prior to our fourth birthday and remember it wasn’t much of celebration. Our fifth birthday was celebrated in a much more memorable fashion, with an actual party. We were five years old and had a reason to celebrate with close to 10 million members. At that point, I thought, this is cool but what kind of company celebrates a birthday and why?
Since then, LinkedIn has grown at a much faster pace and so have our teams across the globe. So, when our sixth birthday rolled around, our new CEO, Jeff Weiner, asked me to put together a real party. So, in our office kitchen, we had margaritas, Mexican food and cupcakes from Kara’s on Cinco De Mayo. It was a fun afternoon of connecting with co-workers whom I didn’t see regularly any more given the pace at which we were growing.
The mobile team is excited to announce that one of our partner developers, Nokia, has built a new LinkedIn application using the LinkedIn Platform. This is a great example of how developers can leverage the LinkedIn ecosystem, and a great opportunity for us to bring LinkedIn to our users across various mobile phones globally.
What better way to start your morning than with the day’s top headlines and a cup of delicious coffee? For the launch of the social news product LinkedIn Today, we hit the streets to deliver hot industry news along with free premium coffee from the LinkedIn news trucks. For those of you who missed the recent coverage, here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how it all came together:
