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Reid Hoffman

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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. He possesses a unique understanding of consumer behavior and the dynamics of viral businesses as well as deep experience in driving companies from the earliest stages through periods of explosive growth.

Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service, in 2003. LinkedIn is thriving with more than 63 million members in 200 countries around the world and a diversified revenue model that includes subscriptions, advertising and software licensing. Hoffman led LinkedIn through its first four years and to profitability as Chief Executive Officer,

Prior to LinkedIn Hoffman served as executive vice president at PayPal, where he was a founding board member. At PayPal he was responsible for all external relationships, including payments infrastructure, business development, international, government and legal. Reid was instrumental to PayPal’s acquisition by Ebay and responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo.

Reid is a board observer at Airbnb, Gowalla, and Swipely, an advisor to Groupon and a director at Zynga, Mozilla Corp., Six Apart, Shopkick, and Kiva.org. He is an angel investor in numerous influential Internet companies, including Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, Ning, Six Apart and Zynga.

Hoffman earned a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a Bachelor’s degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, where he graduated with distinction. In 2010 Reid was the recipient of an SD Forum Visionary Award and named a Henry Crown Fellow by The Aspen Institute.

Milestones

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  Reid Hoffman added a position as Investor at Intent Media. (2/1/09)
  Posted 11/9/11 at 7:41am
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  Reid Hoffman added a position as Board Observer at Swipely.
  Posted 8/17/11 at 2:44pm
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  Reid Hoffman added a position as Board of Directors at West Coast Advisory Board. (6/1/09)
  Posted 3/25/10 at 12:53pm
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  Reid Hoffman added a position as Board of Directors at Winster. (7/1/06)
  Posted 2/28/10 at 11:10am
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  Reid Hoffman added a position as Senior Vice President of Business Development and International at Confinity.
  Posted 12/22/09 at 1:39pm
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  Reid Hoffman added a position as Partner.
  Posted 12/14/09 at 9:56am
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  Reid Hoffman added a position as Board of Directors at Zynga.
  Posted 11/1/09 at 5:15pm
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  Reid Hoffman added a position as Board of Directors at Kiva.org.
  Posted 9/15/09 at 11:03pm
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  Reid Hoffman added a position as Board of Directors at shopkick.
  Posted 7/17/09 at 9:47am
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  Reid Hoffman added a position as Board of Directors at Tagged.
  Posted 6/17/09 at 12:34am
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  Reid Hoffman added a position as Board at Vendio.
  Posted 4/14/09 at 9:02pm
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  Reid Hoffman added a position as CEO at LinkedIn.
  Posted 12/17/08 at 3:05pm
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  Reid Hoffman added a position as Investor at Jaxtr.
  Posted 7/25/07 at 10:05pm
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  Reid Hoffman added a position as Founder & Chairman at LinkedIn.
  Posted 7/16/07 at 8:26pm
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  Reid Hoffman invested in Treehouse. (10/17/11)
  Posted 10/17/11 at 5:51pm via techcrunch.com
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  Reid Hoffman invested in Aviary. (1/1/07)
  Posted 8/17/11 at 2:37pm

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1. Web Design Community Treehouse Raises $600K From Reid Hoffman, Kevin Rose, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Marketplace For Home-Cooked Food Gobble Raises $1.2M From Founder Collective, Greylock And Other Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. One Kings Lane Grows 500% In 2010, Takes $23 Million Investment (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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5. Intent-Based Advertising Network Permuto Raises $10 Million, Rebrands As Buysight (venturewire.com) [edit]
6. Educational Technology Company Knewton Scores $12.5 Million More. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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9. NYTimes (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
10. Thread.com Raises $1.2 Million For Facebook-Powered Matchmaking Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Roeding’s New Startup Raises $2.5 Million from KPCB, Hoffman; Raising More (moconews.net) [edit]
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13. VigLink Raises $800K To Take Hassle Out Of Affiliate Programs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Knewton Bags $6 Million Series B Round For Adaptive Learning Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. Ping.fm Secures Angel Funding From Joi Ito And Reid Hoffman (techcrunch.com) [edit]
16. Site Promotion's Permuto Raises A $6M First Round (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
17. Knewton Raises $2.5 Million (pehub.com) [edit]
18. Reed Hundt Invests in Facebook Ad-Platform Lookery (techcrunch.com) [edit]
19. Flowgram Gets Funding From Reid Hoffman, Others (silicontap.com) [edit]
20. Discussion Organizer Grouply Raises $1.3 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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32. Reid Hoffman Invests in Care.com (gigaom.com) [edit]
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39. Grockit Raises Cash, Prepares "Massive Multiplayer Online Learning" Product. (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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42. RealTravel raises $1M in funding (bizjournals.com) [edit]
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46. Jim Breyer: Extra $500 Million Round For Facebook A “Total Fiction” (techcrunch.com) []
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