LinkedIn CEO gives Apple iPad minis to 3,500 employees
Jeff Weiner, chief executive at professional networking site LinkedIn, handed out an iPad mini to each of his 3,500 employees on Wednesday in recognition of their contributions to the company.
Instead of going with the cheapest $329 16GB model, LinkedIn chose to step up to the $429 32GB version, costing the company some $1.5 million, reports Business Insider.
"We wanted to acknowledge the hard work and accomplishments of all of our employees in 2012," a LinkedIn representative said in a prepared statement. "During todayâs biweekly All Hands meeting, we surprised our employees with iPad Minis as a small gesture of the companyâs gratitude for their contributions."
In its most recent quarter, LinkedIn raked in revenues of $303.6 million to represent 81 percent growth year-over-year, beating Wall Street expectations by $25 million.
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The Mini is great! I was forced to buy one yesterday, because I was suffering from iWS. For all the non-medical types out there, that stands for iPad Withdrawal Syndrome.
My girlfriend just went on a trip, and being the nice guy that I am, I let her take the iPad 3, which left me with no iPad at all. After one day of no iPad, I said screw it, and I just went down to the closest Apple store and picked up a Mini. I'm just too used to having an iPad around for certain tasks.
I'm used to Retina on the iPad 3, but the iPad Mini isn't bad at all. Sure, you can notice that it's not Retina when using certain apps, but it's a pretty nice screen, and many things do look very good on it. Games are pretty decent on it too. I also like the fact that it's so light.
nice !
Why does LinkedIn need 3,500 employees?
It never ceases to amaze me how companies like Linkedin, which on first appearances, don't seem to have a huge revenue generating business model, yet have thousands of employees. Of course I never could see the marketability of Facebook either when it first started to become popular. Their ads seemed really lame, but somehow these free service companies make money, how, I don't understand. I don't think I have ever intentionally clicked on any website ad but apparently a lot of people do.
What he didn't give them Nexus 7's?