Number of employees
5-9
In the early 1980s, Jessica Lipnack and Jeff Stamps decided to write a book about networked organizations. They wrote to one well-connected networker, Robert A. Smith, III, of Abbeville, AL, USA, who responded, and from there grew a list of 50,000 people around the world interested in "networks" and "networking." Doubleday published Networking in 1982, a report and directory on 1600 grassroots organizations.