Company Information
- LinkedIn's founders are Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Konstantin Guericke, Eric Ly and Jean-Luc Vaillant. LinkedIn started out in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in 2002.
- The site officially launched on May 5, 2003. At the end of the first month in operation, LinkedIn had a total of 4,500 members in the network.
- The company is publicly held and has a diversified business model
with revenues coming from talent solutions, marketing solutions and
premium subscription products.
- Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., LinkedIn also has U.S.
offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Omaha, San Francisco,
Sunnyvale and Washington D.C. International LinkedIn offices are
located in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, Dublin,
Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Melbourne, Milan, Mumbai, Munich, New
Delhi, Paris, Perth, São Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo
and Toronto.
- LinkedIn is currently available in twenty four languages: Arabic,
English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish,
Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish,
Tagalog, Thai and Turkish.
- LinkedIn has more than 6,800 full-time employees with offices in 30 cities around the world. LinkedIn started off 2012 with about 2,100 full-time employees worldwide, up from around 1,000 at the beginning of 2011 and about 500 at the beginning of 2010.
Worldwide Membership
- LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the
Internet with more than 347 million members in over 200 countries
and territories.
- Professionals are signing up to join LinkedIn at a rate of more
than two new members per second.
- In Q4 2014, more than 75% of new members came to LinkedIn from
outside the United States.
- There are over 39 million students and recent college graduates on LinkedIn. They are LinkedIn's fastest-growing demographic.
Regional membership
110M+ EMEA
84M+ Europe
64M+ Asia and the Pacific
12M+ Southeast Asia
6M+ DACH
14M+ MENA
48M+ LATAM
