Watch Barack Obama Live At LinkedIn Townhall

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Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Coming off a weekend of Silicon Valley fundraising, President Barack Obama is visiting LinkedIn this morning, in order to talk about jobs, economy, entrepreneurship and the state of employment in the United States in general. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner introduced the president, who began his talk bringing up the recently announced American Jobs Act, which proposes various reforms for small businesses among other things.

You can watch the townhall live above or follow it on Twitter at #meetopportunity and #intownhall.


Company: LinkedIn
Website: linkedin.com
Launch Date: May 1, 2003
IPO: NYSE:LNKD

With over 100 million users representing over 200 countries around the world, LinkedIn is a fast-growing professional networking site that allows members to create business contacts, search for jobs, and find potential clients. Individuals have the ability to create their own professional profile that can be viewed by others in their network, and also view the profiles of their own contacts. Competitors to LinkedIn include sites such as XING, Doostang and Ecademy. Of note, LinkedIn won...

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