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  "markdown": "Co-founder, LinkedIn.\n\nReid Hoffman founded LinkedIn in December 2002 with a team drawn from PayPal and Socialnet.com, and launched it with Eric Ly in May 2003.\n\n## What Reid builds\n\n- [LinkedIn Marketing APIs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linkedin-marketing-api.md), graded B, 62.4/100, in Advertising \u0026 campaign operations. LinkedIn's advertising APIs for campaign management, performance reporting, matched audiences, conversions and lead sync. Agents call versioned REST endpoints at api.linkedin.com/rest with a member's OAuth token, after LinkedIn approves the developer application. Co-founder, LinkedIn, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Eric Ly](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eric-ly/), Co-founder, LinkedIn\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Reid Hoffman?\n\nReid Hoffman founded LinkedIn in December 2002 with a team drawn from PayPal and Socialnet.com, and launched it with Eric Ly in May 2003.\n\n### What does LinkedIn Corporation make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists LinkedIn Marketing APIs from LinkedIn Corporation. LinkedIn's advertising APIs for campaign management, performance reporting, matched audiences, conversions and lead sync. Agents call versioned REST endpoints at api.linkedin.com/rest with a member's OAuth token, after LinkedIn approves the developer application.\n\n### How are Reid's tools graded?\n\nLinkedIn Marketing APIs is graded B, 62.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.linkedin.com/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkedIn\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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