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It gives me immense pleasure to announce another momentous occasion in LinkedIn India’s journey. Earlier this month, we crossed 20 million members in India. It is humbling to play a part in the professional lives of millions of Indians, helping them be more productive and successful in their careers.

Our members have been our motivation since we started operations in India a little over three years ago. Since then, our member base has grown by almost 500% from 3.4 million to 20 million today. To me, however, it is not just about growing our member count but about enabling our members to grow themselves. And members of the “City of LinkedIn India” have done just that.

Today, I am happy to announce that LinkedIn India has grown to over 15 million members. In the short period since starting our operations here, our member base has grown by 300 percent.

From this growth we know that a large number of professionals are coming to LinkedIn because they want to further their careers and establish an online profile of record. This also motivates us immensely in our quest to make LinkedIn even more relevant for professionals so that our members continue to see value in our offerings and benefit from the platform.

Once a month, we set aside a Friday for employees to focus on investing in themselves and their community. It’s a day to spend time outside their daily task list. The theme for November’s InDay was Culture. Check out other InDay posts here. – Ed.

We kicked off the day with our first cultural Top Chef competition. For the first round, ten fearless competitors created a dish related to their secret ingredient which was the culture from which they culled the recipe for their dish.  They were randomly assigned either Italian, Spanish, German, Brazilian, or Japanese as their culture and had 48 hours to prepare a dish.

Ed. note:  India is one of the fastest-growing member bases in the LinkedIn network. To keep pace with our rapid growth, we’ve opened a technology center in Bangalore.  Here, we hear from Ganesh Krishnan, Senior Director of Engineering at LinkedIn, who will be heading the Bangalore technology center.

Deep Nishar, Ganesh Krishnan and Team India on opening day