LinkedIn just announced plans to buy SlideShare for $119 million.
It will be 45% cash and 55% stock. SlideShare allows users to upload documents to the web and have them embedded all over the place. more…

Reid Hoffman
A month after its IPO, LinkedIn has a $7 billion market cap.
We spoke to Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn’s executive chairman and principal founder, as well as two former long-time executives to learn the story of how a company founded amidst the rubble of the 1990s bust managed that feat. more…