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Award-Winning Business Author Dr. Robert Sutton to Host LinkedIn Q and A Today

Business Wire, Sept 13, 2007

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- LinkedIn Corporation, the world's largest online professional network, announced award-winning author Robert I. Sutton, PhD will host a Q and A session with the company's 14 million member network today.

Sutton recently won a Quills award for his book, "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn't". The book was selected as best of 2007 in the business book category: http://www.thequills.org/press.html. He is also a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University, a fellow at IDEO and a member of Board of Directors for the Institute of the Future.

This is the second in LinkedIn's Answers series focusing on start ups and small business, and highlighting the professional expertise available through the LinkedIn Answers service. The series kicked off this week with Senator Barack Obama's participation as a featured host. He received an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response of more than 1,300 answers in the first 24 hours to his question, focused on how the next president can help entrepreneurs and small business thrive.

"LinkedIn Answers is a smart, effective way for executives and professionals to get intelligence about provocative and important business issues like workplace behavior and its impact on productivity," said Bob Sutton. "I am delighted to have the opportunity to exchange ideas with the expert network on LinkedIn."

Bob Sutton's personal LinkedIn profile can be found at: www.linkedin.com/in/bobsutton.> LinkedIn Answers was launched in 2007 and allows professionals to tap into the vast professional knowledge of a network of 14 million LinkedIn members. LinkedIn members can use LinkedIn Answers to get free, fast and accurate answers from their trusted network, or the entire LinkedIn network, in 16 categories including Government and Non-Profit, International, Marketing and Sales and Personal Finance.

LinkedIn is the Internet's premier professional network, where over 14 million professionals find customers, jobs, employees, investors, business partners, service providers, industry experts and opportunities through their network of business relationships. With over 14 million members, the LinkedIn network is currently growing at a rate of nearly 300,000 members a week.

About LinkedIn

LinkedIn takes your professional network online, giving you access to people, jobs and opportunities like never before. Built upon trusted connections and relationships, LinkedIn has established the world's largest and most powerful professional network. Currently, more than 14 million professionals are on LinkedIn, representing all five hundred of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as a wide range of household names in technology, financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, entertainment, and numerous other industries. LinkedIn is backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital, Greylock, the European Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners.