About Us

Company Background

  • 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.
  • As of June 30, 2012 (the end of the second quarter), professionals are signing up to join LinkedIn at a rate of approximately two new members per second.
  • The company is publicly held and has a diversified business model with revenues coming from hiring solutions, marketing solutions and premium subscriptions.
LinkedIn Facts
  • As of August 2, 2012, LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 175 million members in over 200 countries and territories.
  • Sixty-two percent of LinkedIn members are located outside of the United States, as of August 2, 2012.
  • LinkedIn members did nearly 4.2 billion professionally-oriented searches on the platform in 2011 and are on pace to surpass 5.3 billion in 2012.
  • Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., LinkedIn also has U.S. offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Omaha and San Francisco. International LinkedIn offices are located in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Delhi, Dubai, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Melbourne, Milan, Mumbai, Munich, Paris, Perth, São Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.
  • The company’s management team is comprised of seasoned executives from companies like Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, TiVo, PayPal and Electronic Arts. The CEO of LinkedIn is Jeff Weiner.
  • LinkedIn is currently available in nineteen languages: English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
  • As of June 30, 2012, LinkedIn has 2,861 full-time employees located 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

175m+ professionals around the world as of August 2, 2012

  • 10m+ members in Brazil as of October 16, 2012
  • 6m+ members in Canada as of August 30, 2012
  • As of the school year ending May 2012, there are over 20 million students and recent college graduates on LinkedIn. They are LinkedIn's fastest-growing demographic.
  • 50m+ members in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) as of June 30, 2012
  • 1m+ members in the UAE as of October 1, 2012
  • 39m+ members in Europe as of June 30, 2012
  • 10m+ members in the UK as of September 17, 2012
  • 4m+ members in France as of September 5, 2012
  • 3m+ members in the Netherlands as of December 6, 2011
  • 3m+ members in Spain as of March 27, 2012
  • 3m+ members in Italy as of September 18, 2012
  • 2m+ members in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) 
  • 1m+ members in Belgium as of September 22, 2011
  • 1m+ members in Sweden as of June 20, 2012
  • 1m+ members in Turkey as of February 10, 2012
  • 30m+ members in Asia and the Pacific as of June 30, 2012
  • 17m+ members in India as of October 10, 2012
  • 3m+ members in Australia as of March 12, 2012
  • 4m+ members in Southeast Asia as of January 29, 2012
  • 1m+ members in Indonesia as of February 21, 2012
  • 1m+ members in the Philippines as of March 12, 2012
LinkedIn and Business
  • As of June 30, 2012, LinkedIn counts executives from all 2011 Fortune 500 companies as members; its corporate hiring solutions are used by 85 of the Fortune 100 companies.
  • More than 2 million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages.
  • LinkedIn represents a valuable demographic for marketers with an affluent & influential membership.
  • More than 75,000 developers are using LinkedIn APIs to create innovative tools and services for professionals, up from 60,000 at the end of the first quarter of 2012.
  • There are more than one million unique publishers actively using the LinkedIn Share button on their sites to send content into the LinkedIn platform.
  • LinkedIn members are sharing insights and knowledge in more than one million LinkedIn Groups.
  • As of June 30, 2012, 23 percent of unique visiting members come from mobile apps, versus just ten percent a year ago. That number reaches 27 percent when including mobile visits to the website.
LinkedIn Financial Metrics

2012 Quarter 2
  • Total revenue advanced 89 percent year on year to a record $228.2 million.
  • Hiring Solutions revenue was $121.6 million, increasing 107 percent compared to the year ago period. In the quarter, hiring solutions comprised 53 percent of total revenues compared to 48 percent last year. There are over 12,000 enterprises under contract for hiring solutions.
  • Marketing Solutions revenue was $63.1 million, increasing 64 percent compared to the prior year.
  • Premium Subscriptions revenues ended the quarter at $43.5 million, up 82 percent year over year.
  • According to comScore, unique visitors (including members and non-members) increased 30 percent year over year to average 106 million in the second quarter of 2012. Page views increased 31 percent to 9.3 billion. When including SlideShare, which LinkedIn acquired in May 2012, there were nearly 131 million unique visitors in June 2012, making LinkedIn the 26th most visited website in the world.
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