--- ---  # Behold: The Best LinkedIn Profile Of All Time by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 23, 2014 3:13 PM UTC  LinkedIn by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 23, 2014 3:13 PM UTC Plenty of people out there will try to give you [advice](http://techland.time.com/2013/09/04/5-ways-to-get-more-out-of-linkedin/) on how to make a great LinkedIn profile, but you should just give up right now because your LinkedIn profile will never be as good as Shaquille O’Neal’s. For some reason, the folks over at Slate found the NBA legend’s [profile ](https://www.linkedin.com/pub/shaquille-oneal/37/73/282)and [confirmed ](http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/04/22/shaquille%5Fo%5Fneal%5Fs%5Flinkedin%5Fprofile%5Fis%5Fthe%5Fbest%5Flinkedin%5Fprofile.html)that it’s really his and not a fake. And it’s just glorious. Where most people write their title and company (for example, “Reporter, TIME”) Shaq simply wrote the following: **Owner, A lot of companies** Can we all take a moment to appreciate how incredible that is? Farther down, in the “Experience” section, Shaq writes: **CEO, PRESIDENT** **Alot of different companies. Inc** Below that, he elaborates: --- > “” --- So yeah, nobody else is ever going to top this. Shaquille O'Neal LinkedIn Profile: Owner Of A Lot Of Companies ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/73713/shaquille-oneal-linkedin-profile/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/73713/shaquille-oneal-linkedin-profile/"},"headline":"Behold: The Best LinkedIn Profile Of All Time","datePublished":"2014-04-23T15:13:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:01.959Z","description":"We would love to network with you sometime, Shaquille O'Neal","url":"https://time.com/73713/shaquille-oneal-linkedin-profile/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Social Media","Basketball","Internet","LinkedIn","celebrity","NBA","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta825ee0ca2eb6d59/69868c0fcd804d497dcca75b/screen-shot-2014-04-23-at-11-12-49-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta825ee0ca2eb6d59/69868c0fcd804d497dcca75b/screen-shot-2014-04-23-at-11-12-49-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-04-23 at 11.12.49 AM","caption":"","creditText":"LinkedIn","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/73713/shaquille-oneal-linkedin-profile/","name":"Behold: The Best LinkedIn Profile Of All Time"}}]}] ```