LinkedIn's impact on business and data acquisition by Microsoft

And that acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft seemed like a hugely expensive purchase when they made it. But they bought all of the information about all of the active professional employees in certainly every Western company in the world overnight. Every time somebody changes jobs, they know about it. When people want to get news out to their customers, or when they meet people at a social networking or a business event, then they're connecting. And all of that wealth of information is now feeding into Microsoft's understanding of the world, their knowledge graph of how people connect. And that's amazing training data for AI. Yeah. I mean, they paid $26.3 billion for it back in 2016.