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Remembering The Good Times: Pictures From LinkedIn's 2007 Profitability Party

InTheBlack.jpg.jpgLinkedIn will lay off 10% of its staff, firing about 36 people. Company rep Kay Luo told Reuters the cuts will help the professional networking site remain profitable.

LinkedIn is also a Sequoia investment, so the cuts likely have much to do with that VC firm's October "RIP Good Times" terrorfest.

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It's a blow for LinkedIn, which began trumpeting its profitability to media outlets as long ago as March 2006.

In May 2007, LinkedIn threw an "In The Black" party for employees celebrating a year of profitability. We found some pictures of the event and -- not trying to be too maudlin -- embedded them below. 

Ah, the era of folding chairs and finger food -- such gilded exuberance we in our blue shirts and khakis hardly deserved.

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