Historical Lists

We have been charting the growth of LinkedIn since shortly after it launched.

Below is the list of the 20 TopLinked people on LinkedIn from way back on 12 July 2003.

There were less than 12,000 total people on all of LinkedIn back then (compared to 4.8 million as of January 2006 and 20 million as of January 2008)

Rank	Name	Connections
1	Joichi Ito	313
2	Reid Hoffman	266
3	Konstantin Guericke	182
4	Barney Pell	156
5	Eric Ly	118
6	Kevin Werbach	116
7	Ed Nusbaum	111
8	Lee Hower	79
9	Alec Saunders	75
10	Marc Canter	70
11	Auren Hoffman	67
12	Paul Martin	66
13	Mitch Ratcliffe	66
14	John Corey	66
15	Frank Boosman	64
16	Geoff Workman	63
17	Gordon Strause	60
18	Paul Bragiel	56
19	Mihail S. Lari	54
20	Kazuya Minami	53

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The TopLinked 50 list on the day this site was launched (19 January 2006):

Rank	Name	Connections
1	Ron Bates	24,000
2	Andrew 'Flip' Filipowski	16,140
3	Marc Freedman	14,000
4	Marjan Bolmeijer	13,140
5	Octavio Pitaluga	13,020
6	Jan Karel Kleijn	12,960
7	Daniel D. McLaughlin	12,720
8	Jan Mulder	12,660
9	Wei Guan	12,660
10	Malcolm Lawrence	12,240
11	Pier Paolo Mucelli	12,000
12	Adam Levy	12,000
13	Peter Luiks	12,000
14	Christian Mayaud	11,940
15	William Howell	11,400
16	Finn Drouet Majlergaard	11,280
17	Laura Levitan	11,220
18	David Hall	10,800
19	Kenneth Weinberg	9840
20	Nelson Rosamilha	9780
21	John McLaughlin	9600
22	Thomas Power	9360
23	Moshe Weiss	7920
24	Steve Hoffman	7140
25	Hugh Stewart	6900
26	Roger Hamilton	6900
27	Alon Blankstein	6480
28	Shally Steckerl	6360
29	DiMitri Hage	6300
30	David Malone	6240
31	Eric Mariacher	6180
32	Ed Nusbaum	6180
33	Jay Rao	6120
34	Brian Glickman	6120
35	David Mimms	5820
36	Bala Vishwanath	5640
37	David Regler	5520
38	Fabian Piorkowsky	5520
39	John Chemers	5460
40	Thomas Trenker	5400
41	Joe Gillespie	5400
42	Mitch Frankel	5280
43	Marc Schoenen	5160
44	Linda Ruck	5100
45	Fernando Scanavini	5100
46	Arnnei Speiser	4980
47	Laura De Benedetto	4920
48	Nicholas Ong	4860
49	Jerry Laiserin	4800
50	Ariel Litvin	4740

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