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Awards & Recognition

★EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2011, U.S. Overall winner)

★Glassdoor Top 10 CEOs at U.S. Tech Companies (2014)

★Glassdoor 97% approval rating as one of best CEOs to work for (2019)

★TechCrunch Crunchies Best CEO Award

★Wharton Entrepreneurship Alumni Achievement Award

Notable Facts

→Executive Chairman of LinkedIn since June 2020, previously CEO from 2008-2020

→Led LinkedIn's growth from 33M to 690M+ members and from $78M to $7.9B revenue

→Instrumental in Microsoft's $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016

→Founding partner of Next Play Ventures, early-stage VC firm

→Co-founder of The Compassion Project for elementary school education

→601K Twitter followers, known for compassionate management philosophy

→Regular speaker at Stanford, Wharton, and major tech conferences

→Serves on boards of DonorsChoose and previously Intuit

→Former Yahoo executive for 7+ years managing $3B Network Division

→Known for donating $14M stock bonus to LinkedIn employees after share price drop

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