Reid Hoffman
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- Palo Alto, California
- Organization
- Greylock Partners
- Education
- Oxford University (Master of Science)Stanford University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
- Marital Status
- Married
Assets
- Aurora Innovation4,160,000 shares @ --AUR-US
- Figma1,460,000 shares @ --FIG-US
- Hippo Holdings0 shares @ --HIPO-US
- Hippo Holdings70,400 shares @ --HIPO-US
- Joby Aviation7,580,000 shares @ --JOBY-US
- Joby Aviation4,613,000 shares @ --JOBY-US
- Microsoft16,000 shares @ --MSFT-US
- Vor Biopharma1,167,000 shares @ --VOR-US
Biography
Reid Hoffman cofounded professional networking site LinkedIn in 2003 and is a partner at venture capital firm Greylock Partners.
In 2016, Hoffman sold LinkedIn to Microsoft for $26.2 billion in cash and joined Microsoft's board.
He is an investor in Airbnb, which went public in 2020, and autonomous driving pioneer Aurora, which acquired Uber's self-driving unit.
Hoffman is part of the so-called "PayPal Mafia," and was one of the first employees at the payment company that was later sold to eBay.
Before PayPal, Hoffman created the (failed) dating site SocialNet, which some regard as the first online social network.
He has put more than $1.5 billion into impact investments through charitable entities like donor-advised funds. Forbes excludes this sum from his fortune.
About
Hoffman was an early investor in Facebook; he put in $40,000 after introducing Peter Thiel to the startup in 2004.
He hosts the podcast "Masters of Scale," which discusses startup scaling with tech leaders and has been downloaded more than 50 million times.