One of the early companies that joined Link Exchange was Auction Web, which later became known as eBay, highlighting how even successful companies needed promotion in their early days.

After turning down Yahoo's offer, we decided to focus on connecting more people, which ultimately led to significant growth.

After selling Link Exchange to Microsoft, we started an angel fund called Venture Frogs in 1999, which was a challenging time due to the impending dot-com crash.

We made our revenue by leveraging our consumer network to offer corporations a more cost-effective way to communicate with their employees through streaming.

Tony and Sanre started a company building websites in the late 1990s, solving the problem of getting traffic to those sites by linking them together, which created a powerful network effect.

We decided to go to market with hardware vendors instead of building an enterprise sales force, finding ways to help them profit.

In 2008, with the market collapse, we realized we needed to start making money, so we focused on monetizing our site and cutting costs.

When we decided to join Y Combinator, we were already profitable and saw it as an opportunity to scale our team and improve our fundraising efforts.

In the early days, we innovated by allowing users to upload their address books to see who else was on LinkedIn, which significantly changed our growth curve.