Dan Nye of LinkedIn will be leaving his seat as the company’s CEO after being in service for a mere two years. He will be replaced by founder, Reid Hoffman, while reasons for his resignation still remain untold. Reid had been the CEO before Nye was appointed to the position. This resignation follows a couple of new appointments including former Google exec, Deep Nishar as VP of products.
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Wow! Big news. Dan was brought on to prepare them to go public. I can only conclude that this is not in the plans for them for a while. The markets are certainly not very open for IPOs these days
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