Bill Gates: Microsoft Can Make LinkedIn as Successful as Facebook

in #videos8 years ago (edited)

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates thinks that the company's $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn is a great transaction and that the two companies will have a lot of synergies together. Gates discusses the deal in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker in Boston.

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thanks for your opinion
why should linkedin?

linkedin is potentially a uber job app style in the future where the people fight for a job if you are not in linkedin you doesn't exist

Well if it goes the way of some of their other acquisitions it will most likely only be useable to Microsoft Office users.

They recently did that to my favorite calendar app, which has now shut down and is only going to be integrated into Microsoft Outlook.

yeah I think so, but I'm glad you give me your opinion here