--- title: Shaquille O'Neal LinkedIn Profile: Owner Of A Lot Of Companies description: We would love to network with you sometime, Shaquille O'Neal canonical: https://time.com/73713/shaquille-oneal-linkedin-profile/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-23T15:13:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:01.959Z og:title: Behold: The Best LinkedIn Profile Of All Time og:description: It belongs to NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal og:url: https://time.com/73713/shaquille-oneal-linkedin-profile/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta825ee0ca2eb6d59/69868c0fcd804d497dcca75b/screen-shot-2014-04-23-at-11-12-49-am.png?branch=production&width=535&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 535 og:image:height: 301 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-04-23 at 11.12.49 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Behold: The Best LinkedIn Profile Of All Time twitter:description: It belongs to NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta825ee0ca2eb6d59/69868c0fcd804d497dcca75b/screen-shot-2014-04-23-at-11-12-49-am.png?branch=production&width=535&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Behold: The Best LinkedIn Profile Of All Time > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. 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. 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