Even figuring in the damage caused by the bursting of the housing bubble, the company's earnings still came in short of Wall Street's expected 43 cents per share.
Whereas Netscape's IPO symbolized the dawn of the dotcom boom, TheGlobe.com's epitomized the height of irrational exuberance and Google's ushered in a renaissance of tech innovation after the Internet bubble burst, LinkedIn's debut will be remembered as social media's arrival on the capitalist stage known as Wall Street.