Technology
LinkedIn.
A professional network co-founded by Reid Hoffman, organized around work identities, professional relationships and opportunities.
OFFICIAL WEBSITE
Visit LinkedInPEOPLE IN THIS STORY
Reid HoffmanEXPLORE THE FIELD
Technology
WHAT THE BUSINESS OFFERS
The work behind
the name.
Professional profiles
A public record of work experience and interests.
Recruiting
Tools connecting employers and potential candidates.
Professional publishing
Content and communication within a work-focused network.
01 / THE BUSINESS IN FOCUS
The professional relationship becomes a product.
LinkedIn takes the idea of a network into a professional setting. A profile identifies someone’s work, connections give that identity context, and the wider service creates routes to people and opportunities. Reid Hoffman’s role belongs to its founding history.
Recruiters, businesses and individual members use different parts of the platform. Their needs connect through the same professional graph without being identical. Hoffman’s later investing and other projects belong to his individual career. The linked biography follows that wider work, while this portrait keeps LinkedIn as the primary company association.
THE REFERENCE DESK
Read the
underlying record.
Official sources accompany this portrait. Company descriptions record the business’s own account of its offering and development.
- linkedin.comLinkedIn: official website
- about.linkedin.comLinkedIn: company information
Brand image: LinkedIn — image source.
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