Reid Hoffman

Angel Investor · Reid Hoffman

Reid Hoffman is a prolific angel investor who typically targets pre-seed and seed-stage companies, focusing on sectors like enterprise software, consumer internet, artificial intelligence, and transportation technology [2][4][3]. His distinctive thesis centers on backing businesses with strong **network effects** that can scale to hundreds of millions of users, often employing a "blitzscaling" ap…

Focus: Mr. Reid Hoffman serves as a Partner at Greylock Partners. He also serves as a Board of Director at Microsoft. He is a Co-Founder and served as an Executive Chairman at LinkedIn. He also serves as an Advisor at The Breakthrough Energy Coalition. Previously he co-founded Socialnet.com and worked at Fujitsu Software Corp. and Apple Computer. He is a Director at Kiva.org, Mozilla Corp., Six Apart and Zynga. He is a Board Observer at Verst. He has been an angel investor in numerous influential Internet companies, including Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, Ning, Six Apart, Airbnb & Zynga. He 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, here he graduated with distinction. He serves as a Board Member of shopkick. Mr. Hoffman is also a Board Member at Edmodo and an Advisor at Groupon. Mr. Reid Hoffman is also an angel investor.
Location: Palo Alto, CA, United States

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