THE lowest point of LinkedIn chief operating officer Daniel Shapero’s career incidentally happens to be its beginning – a period of 18 months in which he spent going through three startups.

Kind of unfairly, it led to him being labelled as a job-hopper, but the truth was two of the startups he joined closed down, while he was laid off from the third.

Which was a pity for a young, wide-eyed Shapero, who was coming out of university already having started and sold a business, inspired by a family of elders who dabbled in entrepreneurship and hoping to be the hero of his own success story too.