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.
Today, LinkedIn reached a major milestone: 100 million professionals worldwide.
We’re now growing at roughly one million new LinkedIn members every week, the equivalent of a professional joining the site at faster than one member per second.
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Starting today, we’re rolling out some updates to LinkedIn groups – the first major update since we launched discussions in Groups at the end of August 2008. This is the first of upcoming upgrades to our groups’ platform, conversation system, and moderation toolkit coming shortly. Please bear in mind that these updates will be rolled out over the next week, by when you should see these feature updates applied to your groups.
Here’s a quick video that walks you through the key features you can expect from the new LinkedIn Groups. More details after the jump.
A common temptation in building a company is to go after too many businesses at once. The best path to business success, according to Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, is the narrow one.
“I’m a big fan of companies that know what they want to be and stay to that,” Jason told us. His online video service Hulu is a good example. The company’s mission is “to help people find and enjoy the world’s premium video content when, where and how they want it.”
