LinkedIn was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and other founding members of Paypal. The website was launched in 2003.
In 2006, the site becomes profitable for the first time.
In 2007, Reid steps down as CEO. He is replaced by Dan Nye.
In 2008, an office is opened in London. French and Spanish versions of the site are launched.
In 2009, Jeff Weiner replaces Dan Nye as CEO.
By 2010, the site has over 90 million members.
In 2011, the company goes public.
Today, LinkedIn has over 225 million members. The site is currently available in 17 languages.
I live in Bremerton, Wa., about 50 miles from the Seattle area. Don’t let the mileage fool you as it is a 2 hour drive even on a good day. Virtually all of the postings on your jobs available site are for the Seattle area, which rules them al out for me. Can you please change the settings on my site for job openings in Bremerton, Gig Harbor, Tacoma. I sure hope you can do that. Thank you very. much.
Reading your comments I see a lot of people think your a scam business, don’t know what your doing and generally SUCK.. Ive been billed for months from your business and have no clue how to contact you. Ive called your phone number and received your address,called the other number and told your to busy to take voice mails. You want my e mail and password to connect with you. How, I have no clue since it is not my account. Why am I getting billed, I’m 75,, retired 20 years ago. why in the hell would I be looking for a job Take care of this or my attorney will be contacting you (that’s if he can get a number)
I am very disappointed in Linkedin. They are Publishing WRONG INFORMATION ABOUT ‘MY’ Company and I am the CEO/OWNER. They put someone in that was briefly with the company and you can NOT contact them by phone or email. The Phone No they list, is a robot for address and they will NOT let you talk to anyone. Now, I have to resort to ‘hoping they will get my letter in the mail.’. It is a VERY SERIOUS THING TO PUBLIC INFORMATION ON A COMPANY THAT IS INACCURATE & Without that COMPANYS’ PERMISSION. It’s leaving a bad taste in my mouth and I will be ASKING THEM TO ‘CLOSE MY INFORMATION DOWN’. Even though MANY BUSINESSES ask me go to on Linkedin, if the SITE IN NOT RELIABLE & DISRESPECTFUL – WHY SHOULD YOU? Hopefully, someone from their Office will respond and FIX THIS ‘FALSE ADVERTISING’.
Why is your company charging my bank account we out authorization. I don’t know even know your company don’t care to know how did you get my information. I’m really piss off at this situation your company have until monday 10/02/17 to reply back or I will get a lawyer thank you.
7/20/2017
To; LinkedIn Corporation
2029 Stierlin Cy
Mountain View, CA 94043
Attention;Executives
CEO: Jeffrey Weiner
CFO: Steven J. Sordello
COO: David Henke
Gentlemen,
Please remove my name from Linkedin, and DO NOT SEND ME ANY MORE Emails.
Thanks.
Robert Ko
jlee39 at verizon.net
I do not know what sort of scam you are running but you are very deceptive
in your New York sales office. Yesterday a lady named Kennedy called me
about our page “American Indian Movement Georgia” we talked a good while
and she made many promises to me about what she would do for us. She told
me we would be ad free and that they would do a nice page for us to help us
get donations. She also coned my out of my credit card number, and talked
me into a $50.00 dollar a day budget when I only wanted a $5.00 dollar a
day budget till I did see what your service could do for our program. She
told me we would make lot’s of donations with the way they would fix the
page for us.
This morning I checked our page and it was the same as it was yesterday.
They had and do have a lot of information on the page that should not be
there. I again checked it a few moments ago when I got in the office again.
The page was full of ad’s and I had to scroll down a long way to get to the
bottom and it as I said was all ad’s.
I do not like being coned, lied to or taken advantage of as we have very
little money to do stuff like this. But like all great scams I tried to
call you corporate office and it was a recording and not a number that
answers there phone. I am calling the Attorney Generals office tomorrow
morning and informing them as to how you people do business with people. I
also always record ever sales call to us that we are going to have a
relationship with. I will be turning it over to them as well.
If my credit is even tried to be used by your firm, I will sue you people.
Also I was told it would be billed one time a month at the 1st of the
month. Do not try to use it you scam artist people. I will also be turning
the recording of the call with this Kennedy person to the programs Attorney
in the morning. I d was told what you would do for us, and again all I am
seeing on the page is advertising for people. I do not feel like I will
here from you people as I have seen how you are to people that you con into
advertising with you, and that there is no way to get a hold of your
company H.Q.
Richard D Walsh
AIMG Director
To Linkedin,
I find your website despicable and negligent. You allow scammers who used false photos of themselves and who threaten people without even investigating or posting a warning about criminal activity, even when you are aware of it. You don’t even pull the false photos off your website, until several months of customers complaining about why the false photos are still there. You are wreckless and disregard the safety of your customers and I think your company should be fined for it.
We are looking into being direct billed from Linkedin- can you send me the paperwork necessary to become a vendor?
Thanks,
Laura Healy
Sennheiser
Please remove my name from Linkedin.
Thanks
I’ve been a linked in customer for a long time but whoever is running the company now is sure screwing its customers. Seems success and loyal customers are just things to throw away. I wonder if the shareholders know what is going on. Business 101 – don’t screw your customers.
Michael Shear and readers,
I agree with your comments in September 2015. I saved over $6 grand and lot of wasted time and aggravation by not renewing my recruitment account with them in 2016. Reasons: 1. Customer service is almost non-existent. 2. Most batches of candidates they send for the posted job were unqualified. In five years I placed ONE I met through linkedIn, the rest were word of mouth. 3. The sales women who called to renew my account t was so insulting I sent them numerous complaints that fell on deaf ears. The lack of care these people have for customers is systemic…so nothing will change until new competition forces them to change or die. This week I tried to have three issues fixed without success. The customer service person just keeps sending irritating company form letters that do nothing to resolve the issue. I requested they call me in each of my e-mails but they never do. Its day 4 now and the guy said he would be glad to call me BUT…he had top have more information first! This is what they do EVERY TIME, and they never call you. I’m so disillusioned at this point I’m ready to cancel my Premium account too. I will make one last ditch effort to notify the people at the top first. If they are like the management at SWIFTPAGE they will want to know the problems and fix them. I’ve been loyal to Swiftpage through their difficult years because you can get through to management and they care. FYI, they finally figured out sending accounting to Asia was a mistake and they are bringing those jobs back to the US now.
I’ve been locked out of my account for FOUR (4) years, ever since I added a second email and tried to use it as the primary. I’ve submitted at least four help tickets, and no one ever writes back, AND GOD FORBID they use their Mountain View phones to actually act like a human being and call to resolve the issue. Maybe when I fly my little Jet over and sit on one of their F*$&#%n cars all day a human being will come out of a cubical. Strictly a small potatoes operation who insulates themselves from responsibility.
JM MILLER I feel your pain. Read my response to Michael Shear for details. I cancelled my recruiter account with them and I’ll may cancel my premium account next. I sent notes to those who may be the COO and CEO, but it will be a shock if one of the calls me. When I had issues with Switpage and called the CEO in AZ he answered his own phone and had his techs call me 10 minutes later. then I got a call from their tech guys in the UK so they could help locate the glitches and find a permanent solutions. THAT WAS CUSTMORET SREVICE on steroids! They will never loose my account competitor! Who is is coming after LinkedIn business? I’d like to give them a try.
My account has been restricted for more than 3 weeks. Your response center says that it is due to my inviting those I do not know and trust. This is untrue as those invited are friends, part of those organizations on which I serve on the Board, clients of my firm, users of our private labeled software or compatriots. Our articles are distributed regularly in more than 150 publications, and we have more than 150,000 software users in the USA alone. I have been told a week ago that a supervisor would look at my situation and respond quickly. No response. Please resolve as my firm pays for numerous Sales Navigator accounts,
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To:LinkedIn Member
January 15, 2015 7:31 PM
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How do i send a message to someone that is on linkedin? Please email me the instructions. Ob how to do it.it would be greatly appreciated.i really enjoy this site very much.please send it step by step ok.
Account hacked, no response from Linkedin in after multiple requests despite having premium membership.
I do not want linkedIn or my information on line I really don’t know how I got linkedin but I want my information off
Please call me at once at 415-435-XXXXx. I have been trying for DAYS to get help from you. You are damaging my reputation with lies about my email address. I continue to try to reach Help to no avail. Three more days and we are dumping all the stock we own. Horrible.
your privacy settings suck it HARD
I want my info taken of your page when you google my name your web site comes up .please remove please contact me at my email address thank you
Ive created multiple incident numbers over the last month in regards to my accounts random “High restriction” which allows me no access to any part of my account. I have recieved no responses other then your canned email that you send every person with some type of complaint. I need account access and would greatly appriciate it as it is part of my business and you guys wont answer me. Other wise i will continue to work my way to the top to get this settled!
I have two accounts, one at plbarXXXXX@comcast.net I do NOT know the other email, but it might be bartleyinvestmenXXXXX@msn.com CAN YOU PLESE CONSOLIDATE BOTH ACCOUNTS TO THE FIRST EMAIL, and let me know the results??
My linkedin account has been temp restricted since yesterday. I have asked for help for a few times since them. No response so far!!
Can anyone there help me solve this issue?
Thanks
Hi! Jennifer,
I too have been temporarily restricted for the last 3 days and despite assurances that someone will get back to me on this (I have no reason why i am being restricted access), I have heard nothing.
Did you have your restricted access problem resolved and how long did it take.
Any info or advise regarding this frustrating matter is always welcome and thanks
Peter
Linkedin’s customer service is awful. You all need to respond to your users and not make it so difficult for us to contact you all. Not having a number where we can call in shows that you do not have a personal touch. Please someone needs to contact me immediately
You send emails to me with a ” no reply ” return address. Why won’t you give us a valid email address that we can send a message back to you ? I’ve gone over just about all of your web pages to no avail . No email addresses. Not even a ” search ” to insert
” contact ” .
I have been trying to get a responsive answer from the LinkedIn Help Center and am completely frustrated. I wish someone would contact me that’s not reading from the handbook. Not ALL questions are covered in the FAQs. You all have a great platform, but your customer service is really bad. (Take a lesson from Apple.) Someone, please contact me. Thanks. – Jim
Violence Incident 140324-030330: For the last 5 days I have been asking some one in the Customer LinkedIn Ads specialist and support Dept. about a email that was sent to me from LinkedIn. I have the right to know were this email generate from. My question is did LinkedIn send me the email for advertisement or generate clientele or did this person send it personally to me. I have a no contact order against this person. No one in the company can answer this question. You can not even get any one to call you back or email you an answer. It is pretty bad their staff is not trained right to handle the work that comes cross their desk. I have done every thing that there help desk tells me to do for the last 5 days. In result I still not got me answer. gg
A year or so ago I began to receive information regarding your company. I have been seriously disabled with chronic pain for the last 14 years. At first it seemed different to me and I didn’t worry about receiving information from your company. In the last 6 months or so I have had people on MY email list contacted by your company and are very upset that I continue to send things to then under your Corporate Name. As of this minute on March 26, 2014 I want MY NAME and information REMOVED from your site and DO NOT send any further information to the people from MY EMAIL ADDRESS BOOK. I want a confirmation that you have received this comment from me RIGHT AWAY.
Richard N Scott
Sir . I new profil id no invite other people. Invite is apply
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my problem.. Regards. Shivaji Bhutale .
Dear sir. I’M Shivaji Bhutale from India. Sir one think , my LinkedIn profil error. Pls solve my profil
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Regards – Shivaji Bhutale
I have a rogue account on my iMac, but my iPad and Iphone have my original account.
How do I get rid of the “new” account on my iMac and not lose everything.
This is very frustrating as I cannot get any support form you.
I was asked to change my password. Do you guys need me to do that or is a phishing scam?
I would like to know why there’s a restriction on my page. I’m not able to add anything. Please let me know if there’s some type of a problem.
Thanks,
Sandi Beekman
I have been a user of LinkedIn for years and loved the product. I just updated to the latest iPad version and absolutely hate it!
Hoping to find a way to revert back to previous version. Otherwise will not use as much as the past.
I encounter problem to contact with Linked In customer service. I ve sent a description of my problem, I was informed that I have a ticket, and did not recieve any answer since 10 days already. Does this company exist in real world? Do you have any customer service? Is it operating? How long should i wait for answer and suport? weeks? months?
Rgrds,
Grzegorz Krowicki Poland
You are connecting me with lots of people I haven’t asked to connect with and don’t want to connect with.
You are either operating in a very poor way or you system is in a mess.
i have spoken to a number of people in New Zealand who have found the same problem. Not good.
Kevin Blight