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Reid Hoffman, Co-founder LinkedIn and Jeff Weiner, CEO at LinkedIn, Toasting 10 Years on the Main Stage. Photo courtesy of LinkedIn

Mountain View, California, USA - May 5, 2013

LinkedIn Turns 10: Celebrating 10 Years of Relationships That Matter

By Reid Hoffman
Co-founder LinkedIn

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.

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneur. Product Strategist. Investor. Co-founder LinkedIn.
Photo courtesy of LinkedIn

Inspired by the invaluable role relationships played in our own careers, we launched LinkedIn with the tagline “Relationships matter.”

Jeff Weiner, CEO at LinkedIn.
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At the end of our first month, we had 4,500 members in the network.

LinkedIn celebrates 200 million members in January.
By the end of our first decade, the company has reached 225 million members, and is growing at more than two members per second.
We have a lot to celebrate.
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10 years later, we’re honored and humbled that so many of you have made LinkedIn a part of your daily professional lives.

In February, LinkedIn has the highest ratio of female executives in Silicon Valley with the addition of Pat Wadors as VP of Global Talent.
Pictured from left: Sara Clemens, Erika Rottenberg, Pat Wadors, and Shannon Stubo.
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Today, hundreds of millions of professionals around the world are turning to LinkedIn to connect with each other, manage their identities, get insights they need to be great at what they do, and find their dream jobs.

To celebrate the company’s successful 2012 earnings, Jeff Weiner gave every employee an iPad mini as a “small gesture of the company's gratitude.”
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I’m continually inspired by our members’ career aspirations and achievements.

LinkedIn is featured in the Wall Street Journal, an “ugly duckling” no more.
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Click on the link below to take a look at our journey since 2003, including photos of our first office and notes from an early meeting with my co-founders.
http://ourstory.linkedin.com/?trk=corpblog

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None of this would be possible without all of our LinkedIn employees, past and present, who’ve poured their passion and talents into building this company.

In March, Reid sat down for an interview with Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, and Gina Bianchini, Co-Founder of LeanIn.org.
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In 2003, we were a handful of guys in a living room.

In April 2013, one million LinkedIn members had added the Volunteer and Causes section to their profiles, reinforcing the mission of LinkedIn for Good: Connect the talent and passion of LinkedIn members and employees with opportunities to use their skills to make a positive impact on the world.
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Today, 3,700+ employees are celebrating “Cinco de LinkedIn” around the world.

LinkedIn acquires Pulse, helping to drive our distribution of essential professional insights.
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Our vision at LinkedIn is to create economic opportunity for every professional in the world.

LinkedIn Contacts launches to help members stay in touch with their most important professional relationships, a direct outcome of the Connected acquisition.
It’s the first product to launch simultaneously on the desktop and mobile.
LinkedIn releases its new mobile app designed for the everyday professional and is featured alongside the new LinkedIn Contacts app in the App Store.
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We look forward to helping you accomplish much more in the years to come and growing the relationships that matter most.

Thank you for being a part of our journey.

Reid Hoffman

Source: LinkedIn

http://blog.linkedin.com/2013/05/05/linkedin-turns-10/

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