MY FRONT COVER INDICATOR?
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We shall see…but I must tell you. Whenever a company hits the front cover, time to get the ears pinned back. But with LinkedIn, this is a newer company with an $11 billion market cap with about $600 million in sales…and trading over 200x earnings. We’ll be watching!
LinkedIn’s chief executive, Jeff Weiner, doesn’t want to talk about Facebook. No, no, no. “I’m not going to get into comparisons with them,” he declares. And yet a few minutes later Weiner rises from his chair, walks over to a whiteboard and energetically sketches a diagram that the world’s other giant social network can’t match.
Weiner draws three concentric circles to show how LinkedIn makes its money. The outer one is subscriptions. Next, marketing and advertising. And in the center is LinkedIn’s richest and fastest-growing opportunity: turning the company’s 161 million member profiles into the 21st-century version of a “little black book” that no corporate recruiter can live without.
“That’s the bull’s-eye,” he says.
SOURCE: http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2012/06/27/how-linkedin-strategy/