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LinkedIn's Top 10 Silicon Valley Startups for 'Talent Brand'

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday October 05 2014, @11:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the they-pay-me-in-cred dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

LinkedIn has published its third annual list of the top ten startups (fewer than 500 employees) in Silicon Valley most attractive to IT professionals, based on analysis of views and follows of company Linkedin pages, and pages of company employees, made by site members residing in the USA or Canada during the past year.

This year's top ten were Lytro (plenoptic cameras), Theranos (fingerstick blood tests), Fitbit (wearable fitness trackers), Coursera (online learning), Minted (greeting cards and wedding invitations), Wealthfront (investment management for individuals), Bromium (hypervisor-based security software), Twilio (cloud-based telephony), Egnyte (enterprise file storage), and Leap Motion (gesture user interface).

fyamuse: the LinkedIn blogger coaxed the honorees to choose theme songs, each of which are linked in TFA to YouTube videos.

Only one of the top ten (Coursera) was a repeat from last year's list. So what happened to the others? The answer is pretty impressive: three of the ten went public, while six others now have valuations between 1 and 10 billion USD.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06 2014, @01:14AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06 2014, @01:14AM (#102246)

    There's quite a lot of buzz about Theranos [fortune.com] in particular, which is starting to disrupt the lab testing portion (est $70 billion) of the health care industry. The founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, looks likely to replace Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, and Meg Whitman as the Alpha-most Female in Silicon Valley. She was the prime mover for her company, not a smooth talking suit that came in when things were well underway.

  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday October 06 2014, @01:33AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday October 06 2014, @01:33AM (#102255) Homepage

    Marissa Mayer: " Look how hot I am, I'm even in Vogue magazine! That makes me successful! "
    Sheryl Sandburg: " I'm Jewish. Because of this I'll succeed no matter what happens in America, because it is politically incorrect to point out my flaws and I'll be fast-tracked to the State Department in a couple years! That Zuckerburg is also Jewish has no effect whatsoever on my career. "
    Meg Whitman: " I'm a woman in California and they still haven't made me governor yet. You all are sexist. "

    The bar for female success in Silicon Valley is pretty low, but she still won't get any accolades, even in a population dominated by sex-starved and socially-inept male geeks.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06 2014, @01:49AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06 2014, @01:49AM (#102259)

      As Johnny Carson used to say after his monologue (and audience reaction, on good nights): "You're in a good mood tonight".