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Reid Hoffman
Co-Founder of Inflection AI & Manas AI; Partner at Greylock & Podcaster; Co-Founder & Former Executive Chairman of LinkedIn
Reid Hoffman is a partner at venture capital firm Greylock, co-founder of Inflection AI, a technology company that develops artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and apps, and former executive chairman at LinkedIn. In 2025, Hoffman announced his newest startup, Manas AI, alongside oncologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee. The AI startup will use artificial intelligence to try and accelerate the drug discovery process.
An accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and angel investor, Hoffman has played an integral part in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses, including LinkedIn and PayPal. He possesses a unique understanding of consumer behavior and the dynamics of viral businesses, as well as deep experience driving companies from their earliest stages through periods of explosive growth.
Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service, in 2003. Today, LinkedIn thrives with more than 63 million members in 200 countries and a diversified revenue model that includes subscriptions, advertising, and software licensing. As CEO, Hoffman led LinkedIn through its first four years and to profitability.
Prior to LinkedIn, Hoffman was executive vice president at PayPal, where he was a founding board member. There, he was responsible for all external relationships, including payments infrastructure, business development, international, government, and legal. Hoffman was instrumental in PayPal’s acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard, and Wells Fargo.
Hoffman serves on the boards of Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Joby, Microsoft, Nauto, Neeva, and a few early-stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Endeavor, CZ Biohub, New America, Berggruen Institute, Opportunity@Work, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and the MacArthur Foundation’s Lever for Change.
He is the host of "Masters of Scale," the first American podcast to commit to a 50-50 gender balance for featured guests as well as Possible, a podcast that sketches out the brightest version of the future -- and what it will take to get there. He is the co-author of five best-selling books: "The Startup of You," "The Alliance," "Blitzscaling," "Masters of Scale," and "Impromptu." He is an Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, and a graduate of Stanford University.
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