Posts by Reid Hoffman

Last spring, a shelter in Berkeley, CA needed an architect to help it expand its facilities. A young architect who lives nearby had just made a New Year’s resolution to join a nonprofit board. In an earlier era, they would not have known each other existed. But in this instance the shelter’s executive director used LinkedIn to contact the architect – and the...

Ten years ago, I co-founded LinkedIn in my living room with the mission of connecting the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. Inspired by the invaluable role relationships played in our own careers, we launched LinkedIn with the tagline “Relationships matter.” At the end of our first month, we had 4,500 members in the network. 10...

Each month, we invite luminaries from around the world to the LinkedIn campus to share their insights with LinkedIn employees. Last week, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, and Gina Bianchini, Founder & CEO of Mightybell and Co-Founder of Lean In, joined me for a fireside chat. I have known Sheryl and Gina for...