LinkedIn’s CEO is moving on; please hold your tearful video tributes
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In Brief Posted: 2:37 PM PDT · April 22, 2026 Image Credits:LinkedIn / Connie Loizos LinkedIn’s CEO is moving on; please hold your tearful video tributes Ryan Roslansky stepped down as LinkedIn’s CEO on Wednesday after six years running the world’s largest professional network. Dan Shapero, the company’s COO, takes over immediately. Roslansky’s tenure deserves attention. He joined LinkedIn in 2009 — he was one of Jeff Weiner’s first hires — and spent more than a decade working through nearly every corner of the business before taking the top job in June 2020, at the height of pandemic-era labor market chaos. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in 2016. He inherited a platform with 700 million members and roughly $8 billion in annual revenue. He’s leaving with 1.3 billion members and more than $17 billion in revenue. A solid run by any measure. That revenue growth may be inseparable from a transformation he accelerated — turning a glorified jobs board into something closer to a full-blown social network, where executives share personal essays, post career advice, and occasionally sob on camera. (You may have feelings about that; millions of people apparently do, and they’re not shy about sharing them.) Apparently, you needn’t feel too bad for Roslansky, who also holds the title of EVP at Microsoft, and who suggested in a LinkedIn post that his role inside Microsoft is only expanding, with Shapero now reporting directly to him. Topics Social, TC April 30 San Francisco, CA StrictlyVC kicks off the year in SF. Get in the room for unfiltered fireside chats with industry leaders, insider VC insights, and high-value connections that actually move the needle. Tickets are limited. REGISTER NOW Newsletters See More Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news TechCrunch Daily News Every weekday and Sunday, you can get the best of TechCrunch’s coverage. TechCrunch Mobility TechCrunch Mobility is your destination for transportation news and insight.
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