News Summary

• LinkedIn is planning to launch events featuring creators in the second half of this year.
• Over time, it wants to host as many as 4,000 events a year featuring creators.
• The push into events is part of LinkedIn's broader strategy to compete with YouTube, Patreon, and other platforms to court creators.
• It also comes as LinkedIn cuts its workforce, laying off an undisclosed number of employees on Wednesday, CEO Daniel Shapero wrote in a memo to staff.
• It wants to move toward content featuring instructors that allows them to "license and monetize their teachings directly on LinkedIn"