The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Mastering LinkedIn. How to REALLY use LinkedIn – Hoe LinkedIn nu ECHT gebruiken — Free Book Download – Download Gratis dit Boek. Reid Hoffman: The network philosopher. This article was taken from the April 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.
He may be the billionaire cofounder of LinkedIn, an early investor in Friendster and Flickr, a board member of Zynga, Airbnb and Mozilla, and the man Sean Parker approached back in 2004 to invest in a promising new startup called thefacebook.com. He may also be the digital world's best-connected networker, the man his VC colleague Aneel Bhusri calls "the Kevin Bacon of Silicon Valley", who each day receives 500 emails and 40 business pitches. But all Reid Hoffman ever wanted to be was a philosopher. "My original plan was to become an academic," the 44-year-old LinkedIn executive chairman and Greylock Partners investor reflects over lunch one crisp November afternoon in a riverside Cambridge hotel. The switch has suited Hoffman just fine. Has he himself used Google Plus? The Value of Being LinkedIn [Infographic] When Twitter and LinkedIn were hitting their first wave of buzz, waves of critics surfaced to let everyone know it was ‘too little, too late’ — social was already done by Facebook and better.
That juvenile analysis has given way to the realization that social is not just a single stream, but rather a rushing river of which there will be several branches. One of those branches is the professional social space, of which LinkedIn is king.