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Ed. Note: We just announced the opening of our offices in São Paulo, Brazil. Here’s a welcome post from Osvaldo Barbosa de Oliveira, country manager of LinkedIn Brazil to our Portuguese speaking members.

É com muito orgulho que venho anunciar o lançamento do primeiro escritório do LinkedIn na América Latina, em São Paulo, Brasil. E o momento não poderia ser melhor, afinal, acabamos de ultrapassar a marca dos 6 milhões de usuários no país.

Another month, another post from our Life at LinkedIn series. This post by Martin from our Chicago office, pulls together Movember moments from our different offices. Movember aims to raise awareness around men’s health, specifically cancers that affect men. 

It all started with a question to my manager.
“Scott, What is LinkedIn’s stance on mustaches?”
And his response,
“I would think LinkedIn feels quite positively about mustaches.”
“Good..”

In 2009, I was contacted by a LinkedIn executive who needed some help scaling operations in Europe. Why did he contact me? Well, he’d found my LinkedIn profile and it all started from there. Since then, it’s been an incredible non-stop journey of growth and inspiration. So in 2011, I decided to capture it all by documenting my experiences in a video blog.

My role at LinkedIn is to assist our corporate customers achieve success with social recruiting on LinkedIn. Our team is helping them attract talent from the LinkedIn professional network and branding their organization as an employer of choice in new and innovative ways.

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.