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Reid Hoffman

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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.

Milestones

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• Invested in Sofa Labs. (9/1/09)
  Posted 9/3/09 at 11:03am
• Invested in Cross Platform Corp.. (7/14/09)
  Posted 7/14/09 at 1:32pm
• Invested in MashLogic. (6/09)
  Posted 5/31/09 at 10:48pm
• Invested in Knewton. (4/7/09)
  Posted 4/7/09 at 7:15am
• Invested in Ping.fm. (12/22/08)
  Posted 12/22/08 at 10:51am
• Invested in Permuto. (11/4/08)
  Posted 11/3/08 at 11:22pm
• Invested in Knewton. (5/21/08)
  Posted 5/21/08 at 3:06pm
• Invested in Lookery. (2/7/08)
  Posted 2/24/08 at 3:26am
• Invested in Flowgram. (1/31/08)
  Posted 7/2/08 at 12:49pm
• Invested in Grouply. (1/14/08)
  Posted 6/19/08 at 11:56am
• Invested in Grouply. (1/1/08)
  Posted 1/13/08 at 10:22am
• Invested in OpenCandy. (2008)
  Posted 11/10/08 at 10:09pm
• Invested in Zynga. (1/1/08)
  Posted 1/18/08 at 12:23am
• Invested in Chirp Interactive. (1/1/08)
  Posted 1/25/08 at 3:45am
• Invested in Seesmic. (11/1/07)
  Posted 12/10/07 at 6:10am
• Invested in Dopplr. (9/1/07)
  Posted 9/4/07 at 3:00am
• Invested in Kongregate. (8/1/07)
  Posted 8/16/07 at 7:21am
• Invested in Rupture. (7/07)
  Posted 10/2/07 at 4:20am
• Invested in Jaxtr. (7/1/07)
  Posted 7/25/07 at 10:01pm
• Invested in Grouply. (6/1/07)
  Posted 2/5/08 at 2:44pm
• Invested in Powerset. (6/1/07)
  Posted 6/11/07 at 11:36am
• Invested in Care.com. (5/1/07)
  Posted 8/27/07 at 6:21am
• Invested in Funny Or Die. (4/1/07)
  Posted 7/5/07 at 10:21pm
• Invested in Flixster. (2/1/07)
  Posted 7/19/07 at 9:16pm
• Invested in Zynga. (2007)
  Posted 6/29/09 at 11:49am
• Invested in Ning. (2007)
  Posted 7/10/07 at 11:57am
• Invested in Grockit. (2007)
  Posted 2/23/08 at 5:02pm
• Invested in Ning. (2007)
  Posted 7/10/07 at 11:58am
• Invested in Friendster. (8/1/06)
  Posted 10/11/07 at 6:05am
• Invested in Wikia. (3/1/06)
  Posted 7/30/07 at 10:27pm
• Invested in RealTravel. (11/15/05)
  Posted 8/8/08 at 5:59pm
• Invested in Digg. (10/1/05)
  Posted 7/3/07 at 8:56pm
• Invested in Tagged. (9/1/05)
  Posted 7/23/07 at 6:08pm
• Invested in Tiny Pictures. (5/05)
  Posted 2/24/08 at 12:14am
• Invested in Facebook. (9/1/04)
  Posted 5/26/07 at 10:08pm
• Invested in Flickr. (6/04)
  Posted 6/29/09 at 2:57pm
• Invested in Socialtext. (6/1/04)
  Posted 7/20/07 at 5:03am
• Invested in Naseeb Networks. (12/03)
  Posted 6/29/09 at 2:50pm
• Invested in Friendster. (10/1/03)
  Posted 8/22/07 at 1:57am
• Invested in Advent Solar. (1/03)
  Posted 6/30/09 at 4:05pm
• Invested in Friendster. (12/1/02)
  Posted 8/22/07 at 1:56am
• Invested in IronPort Systems. (10/00)
  Posted 6/29/09 at 3:08pm
• Added position as Investor at Jaxtr.
  Posted 7/25/07 at 10:05pm
• Invested in Technorati.
  Posted 12/4/07 at 11:51pm
• Added position as Founder, Chairman and President of Product at LinkedIn.
  Posted 7/16/07 at 8:26pm
• Invested in Friendster.
  Posted 6/29/09 at 3:16pm
• Added position as Angel Investor at Wikia.
  Posted 10/25/08 at 11:12am
• Added position as Angel Investor at Facebook.
  Posted 10/25/08 at 11:13am
• Added position as CEO at LinkedIn.
  Posted 12/17/08 at 3:05pm
• Added position as Board at Vendio.
  Posted 4/14/09 at 9:02pm
• Added position as board of directors at Tagged.
  Posted 6/17/09 at 12:34am
• Added position as Board of Directors at Cross Platform Corp..
  Posted 7/17/09 at 9:47am
• Added position as Board of Directors at Kiva.org.
  Posted 9/15/09 at 11:03pm
• Added position as board of directors at Zynga.
  Posted 11/1/09 at 5:15pm

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1. Thread.com Raises $1.2 Million For Facebook-Powered Matchmaking Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Roeding’s New Startup Raises $2.5 Million from KPCB, Hoffman; Raising More (moconews.net) [edit]
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4. Knewton Bags $6 Million Series B Round For Adaptive Learning Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Ping.fm Secures Angel Funding From Joi Ito And Reid Hoffman (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Site Promotion's Permuto Raises A $6M First Round (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
7. Knewton Raises $2.5 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
8. Reed Hundt Invests in Facebook Ad-Platform Lookery (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Flowgram Gets Funding From Reid Hoffman, Others (silicontap.com) [edit]
10. Discussion Organizer Grouply Raises $1.3 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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