THE COMPANY FILES
Professional networking
LinkedIn is the professional-networking business co-founded by Reid Hoffman, organizing career identities and professional relationships through a digital platform.
Explore the offeringThe business behind the name
Hoffman's biography places LinkedIn within a career spanning internet services, investing and public writing. The company supplies a specific operating subject: a network in which people present professional experience and organizations seek relationships with talent, customers and other businesses.
How the offering fits together
A professional profile gives the network a unit of identity. Search, publishing and communication tools create ways for those identities to connect. Recruitment and other business products add commercial relationships around that activity. Hoffman's later investment work remains distinct from the company's services, even where both concern the development of technology businesses.
WHAT THE BUSINESS OFFERS
The offering,
in working parts.
Professional profiles
Members present work experience and connect with other people through the network.
Business tools
Recruitment, learning and other commercial products build on the platform's professional audience.
THE EVIDENCE BEHIND THE FILE
Sources & further reading
Company material describes the operator's own offering. Historical background follows the linked sources and founder account. Product availability and business relationships can change.
Brand image: Official LinkedIn website.
Editorial source review: .
- LinkedIn: official website
- Reid Hoffman: source-based entrepreneur biography
- Reid Hoffman
- Microsoft completes acquisition of LinkedIn
- Reid Hoffman : official website
- Microsoft announces addition to board and quarterly dividend
THE PERSON & THE BUSINESS
