Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Economical Rice Podcast. Today’s show continues from the previous one. Where I had pledged to put in more effort on Social Media, there was always one obstacle that I could never really get around, LinkedIn.

The thing was, I could never understand those people with the incredibly polished profiles, headers, summaries, and endless lists of articles. It didn’t seem real, how could anyone write themselves up in that way that made them seem like a complete narcissist? How does the website get by as a thinly-veiled excuse for an ego-trip?

And so, curious as ever, I dug a little deeper into the LinkedIn story, and discovered that the ‘monster’ that had created this entire website, wasn’t really much of a monster at all.

Sources:

The Network Man

How LinkedIn’s founder went from studying philosophy at Oxford to building a $26.2 billion company

The Reid Hoffman Story – Make Everyone a Hero

LinkedIn is 10 years old today: Here’s the story of how it changed the way we work

Meet The PayPal Mafia, The Richest Group Of Men In Silicon Valley

The PayPal Mafia

Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman Discuss PayPal and Startup Success