There is a big change at LinkedIn the fast growing company. They make major changes in their management. The founder of LinkedIn has retaken the CEO role which he relinquished to former Intuit exec Dan Nye in early 2007. Nye is living LinkedIn this coming January although the company simply claim that Nye will still remain as the company advisor.

Now Jeff Weiner the Former Yahoo Executive will be joining the company full time as an Interim President. In the early summer he left his position at Yahoo. Currently Weiner is an Executive-in-Residence for venture capital firms Accel Partners and Greylock Partners and he says that he will maintain a loose relationship with the firms.

And last week the company grabs Google executive Deep Nishar to take over the place of Hoffman as the head of products group at LinkedIn. LinkedIn was able to raised $103 million in the venture capital to date and 11.2 million monthly worldwide according to Comscore last October 2008.

It still remains to be a mystery to everybody why is it happening? LinkedIn claims that they grow dramatically up to 900% over the last two years. Hoffman stepped down as CEO in 2007 says that the company needs to have a different leader that will have a different view on how they will be able to make it as the best.

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