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The Founding of LinkedIn
Linked in was founded by Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Lee Hower, Konstantin Guericke, Stephen Beitzel, David Eves, Ian McNish, Yan Pujante, and Chris Saccheri -
The Launch
LinkedIn is publically launched -
Growth
LinkedIn increased to 20 million members -
More Growth
LinkedIn opened an International Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.
In October of that year Silicon Valley Insider ranked the company No. 10 on its Top 100 List of most valuable start ups. -
Accomplishment
The company was valued at $1.575 billion in private markets -
Quantcast
Quantcast reported that LinkedIn has 33.9 million visitors ONLY in the U.S. and 184 million visitors worldwide -
Current Time
LinkedIn has aproximately 364 million users and most of its money comes from recruiters paying for access to information about users