The husband-and-wife team is heading for the exit on the heels of Jeff Weiner, an executive vice president of the company's highest-profile Web properties.

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LinkedIn plans to make the transition gradually to minimize the chances of irritating its members, CEO Jeff Weiner told analysts during a Thursday conference call.

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LinkedIn's chief executive, Jeff Weiner, doesn't want to talk about Facebook.

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Jeff Weiner, an executive vice president of the company's highest-profile Web properties, left to become entrepreneur in residence for venture capital firms Greylock Partners and Accel Partners.

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Of course, so does Jeff Weiner at LinkedIn.

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Jeff Weiner, the firm's boss, imagines that eventually every job opening and its requisite skills will be digitally searchable by every potential candidate, reducing the friction that lets millions of vacancies co-exist with high unemployment.

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