LinkedIn connects the world's professionals so they can be more productive and successful. Its current vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce by helping people access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
At a Glance
- Individual professionals
- Job seekers and career changers
- Recruiters and talent-acquisition teams
- Small and medium-sized businesses
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Liger Kernel
Triton Kernels for LLM Training
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Latest News
Microsoft announced Ryan Roslansky's departure and confirmed Dan Shapero would continue as LinkedIn CEO; LinkedIn remains focused on its 1.3 billion-member economic-opportunity vision.
LinkedIn announced Hiring Assistant 2, a next-generation AI hiring agent with advanced reasoning, memory and personalization.
LinkedIn published new tools to help small businesses grow their brand, hire talent and stand out.
LinkedIn introduced Premium All-in-One for small businesses.
Products & Services
Professional identity, networking, profiles, feed, messaging, groups, knowledge and job discovery for more than 1.3 billion members.
Job discovery and posting tools connecting candidates and employers.
Paid member subscriptions for career development, business growth, learning and enhanced access to LinkedIn features.
Enterprise talent-acquisition products for sourcing, matching, engaging and hiring active and passive candidates.
Market Position
LinkedIn positions itself as the world's largest professional network, combining a large professional graph and member-generated data with jobs, hiring, sales, advertising, learning and premium subscriptions. Its differentiation is the scale and professional specificity of its identity and relationship graph; competitors include Indeed and Glassdoor in jobs, Handshake in professional/early-career networking, Salesforce in sales intelligence, Coursera/Udemy in learning, and Meta/X in social advertising. Liger Kernel competes in the open-source GPU/LLM-efficiency ecosystem alongside FlashAttention and other Triton/PyTorch optimization projects.
Leadership
Founders
Reid Hoffman
Entrepreneur and former PayPal executive; LinkedIn co-founder and early product leader.
Allen Blue
Founding-team member from the PayPal/Socialnet.com network who co-founded LinkedIn.
Konstantin Guericke
Founding-team member from the PayPal/Socialnet.com network who co-founded LinkedIn.
Eric Ly
LinkedIn co-founder; holds a Stanford Symbolic Systems degree and an MIT master's degree and later founded Hub and co-founded KarmaCheck.
Jean-Luc Vaillant
Founding-team member from the PayPal/Socialnet.com network who co-founded LinkedIn.
Executive Team
Dan Shapero
Chief Executive Officer
Erran Berger
Chief Technology Officer of Engineering
Founding Story
LinkedIn began in Reid Hoffman's living room in 2002 and officially launched on May 5, 2003. The founding vision was to create a professional network that connected people to opportunity and made professional identity, relationships, knowledge and hiring more useful at scale.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Diversified monetization through enterprise Talent Solutions/recruiting, Marketing Solutions and advertising, Sales Solutions, and member subscriptions including Premium and Learning; the core member network is largely free.
Target Markets
- Individual professionals
- Job seekers and career changers
- Recruiters and talent-acquisition teams
- Small and medium-sized businesses
- Enterprise employers
- Sales organizations
- Career development and job seeking
- Professional networking and knowledge sharing
- Recruiting and talent acquisition
- B2B sales prospecting and pipeline development
- Employer branding and targeted B2B marketing
- Corporate learning and skills development
- Fortune 500 companies
- Global employers using Recruiter and Talent Solutions
- Professionals and enterprises using LinkedIn Learning
- Hugging Face ecosystem users of Liger Kernel