August 2004: ~900K users, no real revenue, and no "we're raising $X" slide anywhere. The deck Reid Hoffman used to raise LinkedIn's Series B made one idea — the network is the product — carry the entire pitch. Here are the eight moves, slide by slide.
Pitch Decks · 4 min read
LinkedIn Pitch Deck
August 2004: ~900K users, no real revenue, and no "we're raising $X" slide anywhere. The deck Reid Hoffman used to raise LinkedIn's Series B made one idea — the network is the product — carry the entire pitch. Here are the eight moves, slide by slide.
By Shreyans Bhansali · May 28, 2026