Reid Hoffman: Co-founder of LinkedIn

About Reid Hoffman: Co-founder of LinkedIn

Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967, in Palo Alto, California) is an American Internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster and author. He is the co-founder and former executive chairman of LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network used for professional networking, chairman of the venture firm Village Global, a co-founder of Inflection AI and Manas AI, and a board member at Arc Institute. As of May 2026 Forbes estimated his net worth at $2.7 billion. Hoffman's parents, both attorneys, divorced when he was one. As a child he was an avid table-top role-playing gamer and worked as an editor at the game company Chaosium, then based in Oakland. He attended the progressive Putney School in Vermont, where he engaged in farming, and graduated from Stanford University in 1990 with a BS in symbolic systems and cognitive science. He won a Marshall Scholarship and earned a Master of Studies in philosophy from Wolfson College, Oxford, in 1993. Hoffman has been an influential figure in political circles, a member of the Bilderberg Group since at least 2011 and the Council on Foreign Relations since 2015. He has taken an active part in political funding and advocacy and is a vocal proponent of democratic institutions and humanism in technological innovation. Sources: English Wikipedia (Reid Hoffman, accessed September 2026).

Basic Information

Co-founder, LinkedIn; partner, Greylock; co-founder, Inflection AI

Company Details

LinkedIn / Inflection AI / Village Global

Professional Networking, Venture Capital, AI

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