In a fascinating discussion with CBS This Morning, LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman discussed his vision of the social web and its future. Specifically, he visualizes social networks as human ecosystems, and he discusses how the future hasn’t even been written for how these human ecosystems will interact with one another.
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The details are in for the upcoming initial public offering from LinkedIn: The professional networking site will offer a total of 7.84 million shares, priced at $32-$35 each.
Sequoia Capital managing member Michael Moritz was appointed to the board of directors at LinkedIn, replacing Mark Kvamme, who relinquished the board seat he had held since 2003.
Moritz has been with Sequoia for 25 years, and he has served o the boards of Flextronics, Yahoo!, PayPal, and Google.
Kvamme joined the LinkedIn board in 2003, when Sequoia became the professional networking site’s first outside investor. He will become director of the Ohio Department of Development.
The other LinkedIn board members are Skip Battle, Reid Hoffman, Leslie Kilgore, Stan Meresman, and David Sze.
Professional network LinkedIn added a seventh member to its board of directors, welcoming former Technology Crossover Ventures general partner and chief operating officer and Silicon Graphics senior vice president and chief financial officer Stan Meresman.
Meresman is also on the boards of Riverbed Technology, Meru Networks, and HyTrust, and he previously served on the boards of Polycom, VMware, Starfish Software, and Lightsurf, and as an advisor to Silicon Image, Inktomi, and RealNetworks.
He joins A. George “Skip” Battle, Reid Hoffman, Leslie Kilgore, Mark Kvamme, David Sze, and Jeff Weiner on the LinkedIn board.
