Rank #1561
Reid Hoffman
Net worth $2.7B
LinkedIn · United States
- Born
- Aug 05, 1967
- Age
- 58
- Source
- Residence
- Palo Alto, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Master of Science, Oxford University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University
Net worth over time
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.
- 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.
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