Comments on: LinkedIn gets a new CEO, Hoffman LinksOut

By: Social Networks Need a Social Network of Their Own

Social Networks Need a Social Network of Their Own — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:42:44 +0000

[...] social network’s chief executive officer. He replaces Dan Nye, who had taken over the CEO role from Hoffman in February 2007. Hoffman will be assisted by interim president Jeff Weiner, formerly of Yahoo and an [...]

By: SortiPreneur

SortiPreneur — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:12:03 +0000

Reid Hoffman's Move…

On the heels of the new round of funding, LinkedIn's CEO Reid Hoffman has announced that he's transitioned the CEO role to Dan Nye, and will operate as Chairman and President of Products. Reid is one of the most connected…

By: Grand Egress

Grand Egress — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:02:23 +0000

The link to the BusinessWeek article about LinkedIn that you provide by way of explaining the "$100 million revenue" issue actually is quite clear -- LinkedIn is PROJECTING $100MM revenues in 2008. Well, that projection and $1.75 will get you a coffee at Dunkin Donuts. LinkedIn may be a great company and may actually do $100MM revenues in 2008, but they are raising money now for the same reason every other startup does -- they cannot fund the company thru operations (that is, they are not yet profitable, or profitable enough) and so need outside capital.

No shame in that, of course. But the relentless hyping and repeating of the $100MM revenue number, completely out of context, is embrassing to sya the least?