Reid Hoffman

Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and author. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. He is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners and a co-founder of Inflection AI. Early life and education Hoffman was an avid tabletop roleplaying gamer as a child. and worked as an editor at the game company Chaosium, then based in Oakland, California near his home. Hoffman attended high school at the progressive The Putney School in Vermont, where he engaged in farming activities. He graduated from Stanford University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems and Cognitive Science. He was awarded a Marshall Scholarship for graduate study abroad, on which he earned a Master of Studies in Philosophy from Wolfson College, Oxford, in 1993.