When LinkedIn went public in 2011, its share price soared over 100% on its first day of trading to the amazement of traders and tech investors. The media went wild, and the company’s subsequent public market success helped pave the way for the Facebook and Twitter IPOs. But despite the jolt it delivered to the market, LinkedIn’s blockbuster public offering wasn’t a fluke. It was a plan well executed.
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