NewsJanuary 23, 2013 at 6:02 pm

(Another) Penn Grad Makes Us Wonder What We’re Doing With Our Lives

Linked InAsk any self-respecting Penn student for their worst fear and they’ll all have the same reply: potential employers seeing their unedited Facebook profile. One look at your tagged photo from last weekend and you’ll never get a job. Luckily, Wharton grad Jeff Weiner is at the helm of a little website that allows you to separate your perfect GPA from the fact that you attended an event that toed the punny-pornographic line.

In all seriousness, Linkedin is a place “for serious business people to do serious business.”

Before rising to CEO of one of Silicon Valley’s most profitable websites, Weiner lived the life doing M&A, but he now runs LinkedIn, which is currently valued at over $1 billion. Weiner is still not satisfied. In his words, “We want to be everywhere the general professional is. We would like to be ubiquitous.” If ubiquity can be measured by the number of spam emails Linkedin sends every day, mission accomplished. Just saying.

NewsJune 10, 2012 at 7:17 pm

This Was Pennsylvania

With 9 weeks left until we change our professional headlines on Linkedin back to “Student,” we stumbled across this video which actually kinda made us miss campus. The vintage footage of old school Penn comes from 1957, a time when upperclassmen lived in the Upper Quad, Hey Day was called the Junior Cane Walk, and freshmen participated in a wacky tradition called “Dink Day.”

Among the best lines in the 30 minute promo flick, which was meant to entice prospective students, was a plea to attend the Wharton School of Finance (pron: fin-ants) and Commerce at 9:25: ”When you are a tycoon and come to figure out your income tax, you will be grateful that you paid attention to this professor in accounting.” We’re sold!