| Birthplace | Stanford, CA |
| Birthdate | 8/5/67 |
| Stanford University, BS | |
| Symbolic Systems | |
| Oxford University, M.A. | |
| Philosophy |
Reid Hoffman is an entrepreneur and serial investor, most recently serving as the CEO of LinkedIn. He stepped down from the CEO position a second time in June 2009.
Reid was LinkedIn’s founding CEO from 2003 to 2007. During this time, Reid built the company to over 9 million members and profitability. Reid stepped down from CEO in early 2007 to serve as Chairman and President of Products, ceding the CEO position to Dan Nye.
In December 2008, Reid retook the position of CEO, with Jeff Weiner serving as Interim President.
Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal. At PayPal, Reid was in charge of all business relationships: business development, corporate development, international, government relations, and banking/payments infrastructure. During his tenure at PayPal, Hoffman was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid also has held management roles in large technology companies, including Fujitsu Software Corporation and Apple. Currently, in addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart and Mozilla Corporation.
Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a BS in Symbolic Systems and from Oxford University with a Master’s degree in philosophy.
TechCrunch Interview With Reid Hoffman, January 2009
Added: 2/2/09Reid Hoffman on VatorTV
Added: 6/1/09| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Sofa Labs | 9/09 | Series A | $1.2M | 11 |
| Cross Platform Corp. | 7/09 | Series A | $2.5M | 2 |
| MashLogic | 6/09 | Seed | $500k | 4 |
| Knewton | 4/09 | Series B | $6M | 5 |
| Ping.fm | 12/08 | Angel | 2 | |
| Permuto | 11/08 | Series A | $6.03M | 5 |
| Knewton | 5/08 | Series A | $2.5M | 9 |
| Lookery | 2/08 | Seed | $900k | 21 |
| Flowgram | 1/08 | Seed | $1.3M | 8 |
| Grouply | 1/08 | Series A | $1.3M | 4 |
| OpenCandy | 2008 | Series A | $3.5M | 4 |
| Grouply | 1/08 | Angel | $365k | 4 |
| Chirp Interactive | 1/08 | Seed | 5 | |
| Zynga | 1/08 | Series A | $10M | 10 |
| Seesmic | 11/07 | Series A | $6M | 13 |
| Dopplr | 9/07 | Seed | 4 | |
| Kongregate | 8/07 | Series B | $5M | 5 |
| Jaxtr | 7/07 | Angel | $1.5M | 4 |
| Rupture | 7/07 | Angel | $3M | 4 |
| Powerset | 6/07 | Series A | $12.5M | 5 |
| Grouply | 6/07 | Angel | $935k | 3 |
| Care.com | 5/07 | Series A | $3.1M | 2 |
| Funny Or Die | 4/07 | Series A | 2 | |
| Flixster | 2/07 | Series A | $2M | 2 |
| Grockit | 2007 | Angel | $400k | 5 |
| Ning | 2007 | Series B | 2 | |
| Zynga | 2007 | Angel | 1 | |
| Ning | 2007 | Series A | 2 | |
| Friendster | 8/06 | Series C | $10M | 4 |
| Wikia | 3/06 | Series A | $4M | 2 |
| RealTravel | 11/05 | Seed | $1M | 1 |
| Digg | 10/05 | Series A | $2.8M | 7 |
| Tagged | 9/05 | Angel | $1.5M | 1 |
| Tiny Pictures | 5/05 | Seed | 2 | |
| 9/04 | Angel | $500k | 2 | |
| Socialtext | 6/04 | Angel | $300k | 2 |
| Flickr | 6/04 | Unattributed | 1 | |
| Naseeb Networks | 12/03 | Angel | 2 | |
| Friendster | 10/03 | Series B | $13M | 4 |
| Advent Solar | 1/03 | Angel | 3 | |
| Friendster | 12/02 | Series A | $2.4M | 3 |
| Technorati | 9/02 | Series A | $4.58M | 1 |
| IronPort Systems | 10/00 | Unattributed | 1 | |
| Friendster | Series A | 1 |
