{"entity":"linkedin","id":"ent_linkedin","name":"LinkedIn","predicate":"founded","label":"founding date","page":"https://asof.is/record/linkedin/founded","as_of":"2026-11-01","summary":"As of November 1, 2026, LinkedIn's founding date on the AsOf record is December 1, 2002, dated December 1, 2002, from 2 secondary sources (connectsafely.ai and powerin.io). The record holds 1 claim on LinkedIn's founding date, 1 still open and 0 superseded, each dated and sourced; a replaced value is closed with an end date, never deleted.","current":["clm_0AFDFF7B62CA"],"latest_period":null,"claims":[{"id":"clm_0AFDFF7B62CA","value":"2002-12-01","valid_from":"2002-12-01","valid_to":null,"published":"2026-05-17","recorded":"2026-10-27","confidence":0.85,"status":"valid","assertable":true,"superseded_by":null,"sources":[{"url":"https://connectsafely.ai/articles/history-of-linkedin-complete-timeline-2026","tier":"secondary","publisher":null,"published_at":"2026-05-17T00:00:00+00:00"},{"url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213660","tier":"secondary","publisher":"Wikidata","published_at":null},{"url":"https://www.powerin.io/blog/history-of-linkedin","tier":"secondary","publisher":"powerin.io","published_at":null}],"evidence":{"by":"page-read","on":"2026-10-30","quote":"LinkedIn was founded in December 2002 by Reid Hoffman in his Palo Alto living room and officially launched on May 5, 2003 with 4,500 members.","url":"https://connectsafely.ai/articles/history-of-linkedin-complete-timeline-2026"}}],"replaced":[],"faq":[{"question":"What is LinkedIn's current founding date?","answer":"December 1, 2002, dated December 1, 2002, from 2 secondary sources (connectsafely.ai and powerin.io). The record asserts this claim as of November 1, 2026 (status valid, confidence 0.85)."}],"legend":{"dates":"valid_from: when the claim took effect (a period figure: the day its period closed). published: the earliest day a source on the record published it (a filing's filing date, a post's date; null when no source carries one). recorded: the day AsOf first held it. A figure can take effect weeks before it is published.","why_not":{},"checked_by":{"page-read":"its source page states the value and the date"}}}