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Courtney Boyd Myers
Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups gr Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups grow internationally. Previously, she was the Features Editor and East Coast Editor of TNW covering New York City startups and digital innovation. She loves magnets + reading on a Kindle. You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter @CBM and Google +.
Today, LinkedIn debuted on The New York Stock Exchange trading at 520 times its 2010 net income, giving the company an $8 billion dollar valuation. In what is the biggest U.S. Internet IPO since Google, LinkedIn is the first social networking site to go public. So, how did the 100 million member social network get to Wall Street?
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