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Rapportive Acquired By LinkedIn!

Hey there! This is Rahul from Rapportive.

Our vision is to make you brilliant with people. Not just good, not just effective, but actually brilliant. That's our dream.

Since we accidentally launched, we have relentlessly pursued this vision, integrating LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and your address book right into your email.

During our partnership with LinkedIn, we got to know them very well. We found a great overlap between our visions. We found a high-calibre and extremely driven team. We found, crucially, a "members-first" company: everything that LinkedIn does is about making its members more successful.

In business, partnership is dating — and we went on a lot of dates with LinkedIn. Slowly, but surely, we fell in love.

Today, we are simply thrilled to announce that Rapportive is now part of LinkedIn!

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Over the last two years, Rapportive has become an essential product for folks all around the world. When rumours of our acquisition surfaced last week, many asked what was going to happen to the product. Well, we have fantastic news: at LinkedIn, we will support Rapportive, and we will continue to build beautiful products that make you brilliant with people.

The highlight of this journey has been our interactions with you — our amazing users who choose Rapportive day after day. We love you, love you all.

You've said some truly wonderful things: http://rapportive.com/love

Thank you so much. You're the reason why we do this.

The Future

We are completely beside ourselves with excitement. I have so much I want to tell you, and so much I want to show you. But I need to restrain myself — there'll be time for that later. For now, let me leave you with one last thought.

A company, at its core, is a set of beliefs united by a vision. When we founded Rapportive, we had one simple belief: we would build software that you don't have to remember to use. Our software would be an intrinsic part of the tools you use every day. It would be there when you want it, and out of the way when you don't.

You can convey this idea in so few words; it is so deceptively easy to describe, but it is so vitally important. Because when you do this — when you build software into the very fabric of the world around us, when you remove friction from the things that people want to do — something magical happens.

You enable people to change their own behaviour. You empower people to become better at what they do. And if you get enough people to do that, you might just change the world.

Speaking of which, we've got work to do!  'Til next time :)

Best,
Rahul

Rahul Vohra, CEO of Rapportive.   Let's connect on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Please note that you are now covered by LinkedIn's terms of service and privacy policy. As always, your trust is the most precious thing we have. If you have any feedback about our new ownership, terms of service, or privacy policy — or even if you just want to say hello — please do get in touch at supportive@rapportive.com. We'll be happy to answer any questions, and if you choose to cancel your account, we will of course do that for you.

Posted about 1 year ago

44 responses

Arron said
Worst news i've gotten all day.
james_holcomb said
Oh well, it was good while it lasted.
Jason King said
Congrats dudes.
Rahul Vohra said
Hey Arron, James — I'm very sorry you feel that way. I'd like to understand why you're unhappy; if you have a moment, please do drop me a line at rahul@rapportive.com and let's chat about it.
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ReplytoAll said
Congrats guys! Great to see this confirmed and continue to be a huge fan. Use it everyday and will continue to do so.
delalick said
Great news, though I'm not sure what impact will this have on the end user, from the privacy standpoint.
Kevin Ebaugh said
Congrats! Perfectly tweetable quote: https://twitter.com/kevinebaugh/status/172388504502935552 Exactly 140 characters :)
ay_shake said
Congrats guys, you deserve it for building such a great (and very useful) product. Best of luck here on in!
naval said
Rapportive was no accident - I watched the team grind, day in and day out. They earned every user. Congratulations - well deserved.
Roy Rodenstein said
Huge congratulations to Rahul, Sam, Martin and the whole Rapportive team. I've been a loyal user from Day 1, and will continue to be. Having the resources of LinkedIn behind this team and vision will bring about awesome new functionality and value to us, I can't wait!
ckeller said
You guys are a great example of a team building a fantastic product, being used by tons of people, and sticking to their wits on simplicity & usability. Congrats guys, this is a big win for LinkedIn.
skweal said
Congrats guys, seems like yesterday I called Rahul in Cambridge knowing we'd be high 5'ing in no time. Very well done.
steepdecline said
Congrats guys, seems like yesterday I called Rahul in Cambridge knowing we'd be high 5'ing in no time. Very well done.
David Evans said
Congrats but not really feeling too much love, as product development has basically slowed to a stop (at least from what I can see and I use your app every day). Afraid it will slow down even more, and there are so many other meta-info plugins out there that are rocking it. You had an awesome run though, nice exit I hope, because thats what it appears to be, an exit. We'll see and I remain hopeful that things keep moving forward there.
Rishi said
Congrats! Really enjoy the service and hoping to keep using it for many many more years to come :)
Ashish Soni said
Congratulations Rahul and Team. Very well deserved. This is one of the few apps I use every day. You have built a great product and a great team!
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georgezachary said
The makings of success: smart relentless founders, a new emerging area that is solving a larger and larger problem, creativity in product and approach. That's Rapportive.
Rich Folsom said
Congratulations Rahul. I'm pretty sure I signed your yearbook something about 'most likely to take over silicon valley'...

Very pleased for you guys.

Paul Buchheit said
Great news! Congratulations!
roovehit said
Great news for the team although the bad thing is, LinkedIn guys can shut down the product anytime. Hoping that the product stays and evolves.
heppniness said
Congratulations! while as user i don't know if this is a good news, it's wonderful to know that your amazing product have been acquired (it was too amazing).
Dev Basu said
I've used Rapportive non-stop for the last 2 years or so. Congrats on the acquisition. I only hope that the product integrates well and improves with Linkedin's resources.
Ed Sim said
Congrats Rahul! You and your team should be pumped about how far you have taken your vision thus far and how many more people you will impact through LinkedIn's platform. Keep pumping out elegant, simple but powerful products!

Ed

Michael Mahemoff said
Great to witness the journey, congrats Rahul!
davidpolanco said
I am happy for the staff of Rapportive, but I am slightly upset for the future outlook. Hopefully this will remain a free service, with more information about the end user.
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John Lynch said
Pathetic. So basically you're nothing more than another bunch of venture capitalist tarts, looking for the first big player to want to buy you out. Where's the success in that, in not even wanting to build a company, but just to cash in at the first opportunity.
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Congratulations. We use this at http://watchavideo.net to keep in touch with our followers and fans. Keep up the good work.
davemcclure said
awesome job Rapportive team! congrats & best of luck from 500 Startups with LinkedIn family :)
Jamie Siminoff said
Great job and congrats. Rapportive has been one of my favorite plugins since you guys launched. Wish you luck at Linkedin and look forward to future enhancements that come out of it.
Raanan Bar-Cohen said
Congrats guys ! Feels like just yesterday that we met at Pier38 ;)
Krish said
Congratulations Rahul & team. One of the best apps I found was useful every single day. :) And as you guys say, it was just there to use.
Steve said
Spot the hater...well done John it's you. These guys build a great product that enhances the lives of their users, an unquestioned success. They are now getting rewarded for what I can imagine was incredible hard work, long nights and sacrifice. Keep an eye on your green eyed monster John, its going to consume you if you're not careful.
tanner_chris said
We're proud to be an integrated partner with Rapportive via their well design Raplets program (https://rapportive.com/raplets). Our users love the way they can see order, ticket and accounting information right in Gmail! Well done guys, it's good to see you going strength to strength.
Chris
nextpageinc said
Congratulations!

That's awesome...

Just a few months ago I was writing to LinkedIn's daughter Connected about how much they could learn from Rapportive (and, in all honesty, how Rapportive could probably benefit from having a more heavy-duty network/CRM behind them, like LinkedIn and/or Connected).

Looks like someone had already thought of that, and realized how perfectly Rapportive would fit into the LinkedIn family. :-)

Hope you'll go to work on granting more of my wishes – not forgetting the ones about peace on earth and a penthouse appartment near Central Park.

Keep making the world a friendlier place (by giving every e-mail a meaningful context and a face).

Nicolas Roberge upvoted this
copstead said
That is excellent news! Congratulations.
Emily Bell said
Congratulations guys! I was just recommending you to a friend last night. Just do not change anything!
Joe said
I've noticed that google ads now shrink over to the right side and cover the top part of rapportive when scrolling down in a gmail message - is this happening to anyone else?

it's annoying because the google ad partially covers the person's name making it difficult to read

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Christian Masson said
Quick question Rahul : you may not be able to anwser now. But to you see some type of Integration of Repportive / ConnectedHQ.com and Card Much

Thanks,

Christian

Joe said
forgot I commented on this a year ago until the last comment came into my inbox - there has been no further development on rapportive or connected since linkedin bought them - what could have been great has just been left high and dry - rapportive is decent enough and probably doesn't need much further development except some nice tweaks (search google docs, etc), but connected had great potential, but it still looks like it was designed pre-yahoo and is pretty worthless as a true contact manager. all linkedin seems to want to do is buy and kill good startups in contact management space