Reid Hoffman. Reid Hoffman is a Partner at Greylock, and Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at LinkedIn.
Reid joined Greylock Partners in 2009. His areas of focus include consumer Internet, enterprise 2.0, mobile, social gaming, online marketplaces, payments, and social networks. Reid likes to work with products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects. 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. Management. Reid Hoffman. Reid Garrett Hoffman[2] (born August 5, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman is best known as the co-founder of LinkedIn, a social network used primarily for business connections and job searching. Early life and career[edit] Hoffman says that in college he formed a conviction that he wanted to try to influence the state of the world on a large scale.[6] He saw academia as an opportunity to make an "impact", but later realized that an entrepreneurial career would provide him with a larger platform.
"When I graduated from Stanford my plan was to become a professor and public intellectual. That is not about quoting Kant. LinkedIn Shares Tumble After ‘Lockup’ Expires.