I&#x27;ve had my fair share of LinkedIn hate in the past. Using it outside the tech industry is really useful though - it&#x27;s almost like a GitHub profile in some circles.<p>Using it as an advertiser is something else altogether. Their advertising interface sucks but holy moly, it&#x27;s the best business ad targeting platform in the world. People use it, that makes it valuable for advertising - that makes the company valuable. How valuable, not sure - but I think the tech industry doesn&#x27;t really get LinkedIn so there&#x27;s a lot of knee jerk bias.