Why does he need to explain why he sold Linkedin to Microsoft?

Seriously: it's a ton of money (9x revenues in 2015), in cash, for a company that is still losing money year after year, whose user base is not very active and whose user growth has all but stalled.

Lets take opposite question...for what would you pay if front of you is company with decreasing revenue, bad reputation as HR spammer paradise etc. etc. all of this is just public cover.

Somewhere inside must be something behind the scene (hidden from public eyes/ears). Microsoft representative arent stupid and wouldnt give such amount of money just for someones blue eyes. They have to have some valuable information or something worthy of such money.

I am wondering what is it. Maybe some leaks will surprise all of us. Who knows.

Agreed - there is no way in the world it was worth that much, could so, so easily go the way of Myspace.

Who gives a rip what they say! We really what to know who at M$ was like, "...26Bn sounds fair DEAL!"

People at LinkedIn will probably lose their jobs, as is usually the case in M&A (eliminating redundant positions)