Conan O’Brien’s latest obsession is with LinkedIn, and he’s embarked on a quest to become the top influencer on the employment-based social-media site.
One obstacle standing in his way, however, is Virgin mogul Sir Richard Branson, who is currently LinkedIn’s top influencer with more than 3 million followers.
On a recent edition of Conan, O’Brien insisted that he “deserves more followers, and even Sir Richard Branson agrees.”
Branson, however, didn’t exactly offer his support, saying, “Absolutely not Conan! No, no, no, no way.”
Of course, it was just a joke. In a recent blog post, Sir Richard clarified his statement: “Sorry, I meant: “Absolutely yes Conan. Yes, yes, yes, yes!'”;
However, when Conan mentioned that he was next in line to Bloomberg anchor and Editor-at-Large Trish Regan, Branson blogged: “Trish’s team happened to be with us on Necker at the time filming a piece about our newly-rebuilt Necker House. They were delightful company, so I was happy to support Trish in her battle with Conan – watch out Team Coco!”;
