Stanislav Sinyagin it’s actually used by recruiters a lot. They pay for the subscription fee to be able to contact candidates. I don’t know how much they make from that, but at least they have a business model outside of the traditional advertising.
Stanislav Sinyagin of course not. My point was merely that isn’t not impossible to monetise it. What is their revenue breakdown? Have they reported on how much comes from subscriptions?
I am hard pressed to think of any tech industry products that would effect my life less than this one does. I actively avoid using LinkedIn, and have always avoided using all of Microsoft products.
I recall reading an interview somewhere that there are people who imagine you can combine two or more bad companies and somehow use the assets to get a good company out of that. I also recall some investor bragging about owning numerous internet-based companies – looked at the internet companies they were referring to and nearly every one of them was a dog.
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I’ve had any number of useless accounts for Web based services over the years. I think LinkedIn is the most useless. Zero on a scale of one to ten.
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Joseph Moosman it helps keeping track of people whom I haven’t seen for ages. But good luck to anyone willing to monetize on that
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Stanislav Sinyagin it’s actually used by recruiters a lot. They pay for the subscription fee to be able to contact candidates. I don’t know how much they make from that, but at least they have a business model outside of the traditional advertising.
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Elias Mårtenson true, but is it worth gazillions that Microsoft paid for it?
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Stanislav Sinyagin of course not. My point was merely that isn’t not impossible to monetise it. What is their revenue breakdown? Have they reported on how much comes from subscriptions?
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I am hard pressed to think of any tech industry products that would effect my life less than this one does. I actively avoid using LinkedIn, and have always avoided using all of Microsoft products.
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I recall reading an interview somewhere that there are people who imagine you can combine two or more bad companies and somehow use the assets to get a good company out of that. I also recall some investor bragging about owning numerous internet-based companies – looked at the internet companies they were referring to and nearly every one of them was a dog.
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