In which California city was LinkedIn founded in December 2002?

LinkedIn was founded in Mountain View, California, in December 2002.

Reid Hoffman and a founding team that included former PayPal and Socialnet.com colleagues established the company during the early Silicon Valley social-networking boom. The service itself launched publicly on May 5, 2003, when the founders began sending invitations to prospective members.

Mountain View is often associated with major technology companies, which can cause confusion with nearby Silicon Valley cities such as Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, and San Jose. Those cities are all closely connected to the region’s technology industry, but Mountain View is the city identified with LinkedIn’s founding. The company later expanded internationally, opened an office in India, and established an international headquarters in Dublin in 2010.

A related milestone came in 2006, when LinkedIn reached its first month of profitability. It went public in May 2011 and was acquired by Microsoft in 2016, but its origin story begins with that 2002 founding in Mountain View.