Today Reid Hoffman sold his company, LinkedIn, to Microsoft for $26 billion in cash.

Today Reid Hoffman sold his company, LinkedIn, to Microsoft for $26 billion in cash. It’s a major milestone in his 23 year journey of “networking while not working” that began in 1993:

As Reid says, when he tried to start his first business after graduating “It was the beginning of the online revolution, in 1993. This was when America Online was starting to drop floppy disks to everybody to try to get people online.”

“I networked my way to a couple of different venture capitalists. They said,...