Reid Hoffman
1967 – ? American venture capitalist, LinkedIn co-founder
LinkedIn founder and prolific Silicon Valley investor.
- Religion
- Not publicly documented.
- Affiliations
- Co-founded LinkedIn; partner at Greylock; was PayPal's COO; an early Facebook investor and a former OpenAI board member. Also served on the Microsoft board.
Reid Garrett Hoffman studied at Stanford and Oxford before joining the early PayPal team as chief operating officer. He founded LinkedIn in 2002 and sold it to Microsoft in 2016. He became a major Democratic donor and technology investor.
Connections
- associate of Elon Musk — PayPal Mafia colleagues.
- associate of Peter Thiel — Stanford classmates and PayPal colleagues.
- ally of Sam Altman — Backed OpenAI and served on its board.
- ally of Sam Altman — Both backed OpenAI; Hoffman sat on its board.
In the timeline
- 2002 LinkedIn founded mentioned