Jeff Weiner Will Step Down as CEO of LinkedIn June 1

Major change ahead for LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, now with 675 million members. From a report: Jeff Weiner, who has been leading the company as CEO for the past 11 years, is stepping down on June 1, 2020. His new role will be executive chairman. Ryan Roslansky, who is currently head of product, will be stepping up to the new role of CEO, while Tomer Cohen, who had been under Roslansky, is stepping up to lead the team. The changes are the company's biggest -- and actually, only -- big executive shakeup since LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion in 2016. It's notable that both of the new appointments are of long-time LinkedIn executives: don't rock the boat too much, don't fix what isn't broken, and all that. As for what Weiner will be doing next, in a blog post announcing his departure, he notes that LinkedIn was his "dream job" and that he's moving on to the next "dream job" as exec. chairman.

Fond Wishes

[Aighearach]

I hope he gets as tired of the resulting linkedin spam as the rest of us already are.

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[93 Escort Wagon]

We should all send him LinkedIn connection requests and also "good luck on the new job" notes.

Re:Fond Wishes

[jellomizer]

Compared to other social media, I have found LinkedIn the most sane.
Yea you get the recruiters bugging you for these 6 month contract jobs, or thinking NY state is New York City or close by. However for the most part people stay rather tame, and there is little political barking, or crazy stuff.

Re: Fond Wishes

[phantomfive]

They don't live on advertising, they live on people who actually pay them.

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[antdude]

So, why do we get spams?

Re: Fond Wishes

[phantomfive]

Because you didn't update your email preferences.

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[antdude]

Uh, I did. I was talking about the ads.

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[Austerity Empowers]

It used to be. Then MS bought it and most people I am connected with stopped using it. Now it's just endless spam from Indians looking for visa sponsorship work.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe in the US. In the UK it has become the best stock corporate photography resource. Endless streams of pictures of people standing in front of a corporate branded backdrop at some corporate event, celebrating their corporate success in doing their menial corporate jobs. It has become the perfect conduit for adult attention whoring.

Nothing is mundane on LinkedIn anymore. Everything and everyone is amazing, fantastic, incredible and inspirational. Even (or especially) Janet in accounting. How do I know th

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[tlhIngan]

However for the most part people stay rather tame, and there is little political barking, or crazy stuff.

Given it's the social network for professionals and the working world, that's to be expected. Politics and religion are the two topics that one should never bring up in a professional setting for obvious reasons. Especially on a site where your earning potential is at stake. You also won't find much griping about employers.

Not surprisingly those topics generate the most conversation on other less work-r

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[Anonymous Coward]

BREAKING NEWS: Tesla bulls have lost over 38.4 BILLION dollars in the last 24 hours.

Back to you, Jane.

Linkedin == Hotel California

[OffTheLip]

You can check in but you can never leave.

Maybe an outsider would have been ...

[rnturn]

... a better choice. To fix what is broken with LinkedIn. (Which, IMHO, is a lot.)

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[nightcats]

Been saying this for about a decade now: LinkedIn is a service with vast potential, but about 95% of it is unfulfilled. But I suppose something similar can be said for the other major social media apps.