# LinkedIn

Standing (still-up). Founded 2003-05-05.
Site: [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com)

Reid Hoffman, 2003. Still the suit in the drawer.

## Why it lasted
- It is the resume that other people can see, and hiring still starts there.
- Microsoft bought it and plugged it into the Office graph. Jobs is a search problem Microsoft wanted.

## Near deaths
- The feed becoming a worse Twitter. People mock it and still accept the invite.

## What would finish it
- Hiring moving to GitHub / a labor marketplace / AI agents that do not need a profile. The resume page is sticky.

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