How big is the rolodex in LinkedIn?
I think it’s about some 1720 odd connections on LinkedIn. How did the idea of for LinkedIn start? Did you have a formal business plan? Actually in Silicon Valley, we don’t do formal business plans. We do 20 point slide PowerPoint deck. Because I was fortunate to have made a little bit of money from PayPal, I financed the money for the first ten months myself. And so I don’t have to construct the PowerPoint myself. I just went, ‘Oh, I think there is something here.’ Now the highline was, I believe that the internet is going to be extremely important with how people manage their work and careers and that everyone is going to have a public profile on the web. That is, a professional profile and that how they accomplish things will be central on the internet. Those were the kind of founding ideas which drove into the specifics of what we built LinkedIn into. In India there is a huge aspiration revolution going on with the mobile phone. LinkedIn is right now available for desktop users. Wha
