Terms/price undisclosed. LinkedIn has given up on building features,
they simply leverage their P/E ratio (MSFT's inflated stock price) to buy the "most successful" company that has the feature(s) they want to integrate (e.g: Lynda.com ...) and "grow by acquisition".<p>We all know the likelihood of success in these kinds of transactions ...
If anything this is an opportunity for any alternative/competitor to Glint,
because Glint's management will be completely <i>distracted</i> by "integrating" with the "systems" of their corporate overlords (HR, Accounting, Coms, etc.). The founders of Glint will be too busy counting their millions to remember to <i>improve</i> their core product and as a result it will stagnate. We've seen this pattern so many times it feels like ground-hog-day. The only people who "succeed" in "M&A" are the "advisors" who just walked a way with a percentage of the transaction value without any commitment to the outcome of the deal.<p>Well done for buying another "feature" LinkedIn; there is clear "symbiosis" between the two products.
Good luck to everyone having to integrate the two systems/companies. 2 years of your life you won't get back.<p>Screenshot journey: <a href="https://github.com/dwyl/start-here/issues/145" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dwyl/start-here/issues/145</a>