{"id":16972,"date":"2010-07-29T07:30:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16972"},"modified":"2010-07-29T07:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T11:30:21","slug":"linkedin-worth-over-2bn-as-hedge-fund-tiger-takes-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2010\/linkedin-worth-over-2bn-as-hedge-fund-tiger-takes-stake.html","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn &#8216;worth over $2bn&#8217; as hedge fund Tiger takes stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent &#8211; LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, is  believed to have received investment from a hedge fund that values the  site at more than $2bn (\u00a31.3bn).<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Global Management paid $20m to buy a 1 per  cent share from existing holders in the private company, according to  Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>This has almost doubled the site&#8217;s value in just  two years, after the private equity group Bain Capital took a 5 per cent  stake in 2008 that valued the company closer to $1bn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/business\/news\/linkedin-worth-over-2bn-as-hedge-fund-tiger-takes-stake-2037980.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent &#8211; LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, is believed to have received investment from a hedge fund that values the site at more than $2bn (\u00a31.3bn). Tiger Global Management paid $20m to buy a 1 per cent share from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16973,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16972\/revisions\/16973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}