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Reid Hoffman
Entrepreneur; Partner, Greylock; Co-Host, Masters of Scale
United States
Architect of professional networking at scale; prolific investor in platforms and AI applications.
- Co-founded LinkedIn, shaping modern hiring and economic graph data
- Invested early in companies that defined consumer and enterprise SaaS
- Popularized educational narratives on blitzscaling and ethics
Networks, narratives, and the speed of learning.
Reid Hoffman’s career connects product invention with ecosystem thinking—how trust graphs unlock productivity.
As an investor and public thinker, he emphasizes speed with guardrails: scaling responsibly is a design problem.
His podcast and essays have become informal curriculum for founders navigating ambiguity.
“An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.”