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J. SilvaStartups in Actionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5787-6_6

6. Year One of SlideShare

JP Silva1  
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Toronto, ON, Canada
 
SlideShare (www.slideshare.net) is an online service for hosting and sharing professional content such as presentations, infographics, and documents (Figure 6-1). It was founded by Rashmi Sinha, Jonathan Boutelle, and Amit Ranjan. In May 2012, when it was sold to LinkedIn for about $119 million, it had about 53 million monthly visitors.

The homepage of Slideshare is depicted in a screenshot, with options such as today's top Slideshares, featured Slideshares, featured courses from LinkedIn, and find a job. ...

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