Reid Hoffman

REID HOFFMAN

Place of Birth : Stanford, California, USA

Place of Living : Silicon Valley, California

Reid Hoffman, 42, is best known as the founder of LinkedIn, a social network used primarily for business connections and job searching. He is an entrepreneur and serial investor, most recently serving as the CEO of LinkedIn.

Hoffman is best known as the founder of LinkedIn, a social network used primarily for business connections and job searching. His first job was a summer internship with Inglenook, a Napa Valley winery. After working at Apple Computer and Fujitsu, Hoffman co-founded his first company, SocialNet.com.While at Social net, Hoffman was a member of the board of directors at the founding of PayPal, an electronic money transmission service, and later joined the firm as a full-time employee.

At the time of PayPal’s acquisition by eBay in 2002, he was Executive Vice President of PayPal in charge of business and corporate development. His entire professional career can be found on his Linkedin profile.

Reid was LinkedIn’s founding CEO for the first four years before moving to his role as Chairman and President, Products in February 2007. He invented the term for his people as the new “Second Generation Web Entrepreneurs”.

“A networker likes to meet people. I don’t. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something”

“Every person is his or her own brand.”

“Many people in Silicon Valley are motivated by one of two things: Either they love technology or they want to be rich, important and powerful, or they are both.”

“I lose interest when things don’t have scale.”

“Everyone is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.”

“It’s a great time to start a company.”