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title: "History of LinkedIn"  
description: "A short explanation about the history of LinkedIn and its interesting facts"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-10-04  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2779/history-of-linkedin  
category: "social media"  
tags: ["social media", "LinkedIn", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# History of LinkedIn

![History of LinkedIn](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/48265821-9a69-46a8-8b58-3761d77e17c4/images/95caabd6-9109-41e3-8733-96cf02711c62.jpeg) ![History of LinkedIn](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/48265821-9a69-46a8-8b58-3761d77e17c4/images/078a1cc2-10d6-4ad5-8c5d-e814d57e4299.jpeg) LinkedIn was established in December 2002. ![History of LinkedIn](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/48265821-9a69-46a8-8b58-3761d77e17c4/images/ddc9087f-2f2a-40ee-92b8-7a1c5c4257a3.jpeg) On May 5, 2003, LinkedIn was made available to the general public. ![History of LinkedIn](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/48265821-9a69-46a8-8b58-3761d77e17c4/images/1e26e720-34a4-407e-b200-10a4e9550569.jpeg) The site was created to enable professionals to connect with one another and build their networks. ![History of LinkedIn](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/48265821-9a69-46a8-8b58-3761d77e17c4/images/c4dc29e7-fb4f-40b3-b250-d60e6470f04f.jpeg) Microsoft paid $26 billion for LinkedIn in 2016. This was Microsoft's largest acquisition to that point. ![History of LinkedIn](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/48265821-9a69-46a8-8b58-3761d77e17c4/images/f4da2bd9-0aff-4ab4-ab27-2ee9e5ee30d5.jpeg) Today, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional networking platform. It has approximately 950 million members from over 200 nations & territories.

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