Reid Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor.
Hoffman is best known as the founder of LinkedIn, a social network used primarily for business connections and job searching.
Hoffman was born in Stanford, California, and grew up in Berkeley, California. He attended high school at The Putney School,. He graduated from Stanford University (where he won a Marshall Scholarship and a Dinkelspiel Award) with a bachelor...
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Reid Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor.
Hoffman is best known as the founder of LinkedIn, a social network used primarily for business connections and job searching.
Hoffman was born in Stanford, California, and grew up in Berkeley, California. He attended high school at The Putney School,. He graduated from Stanford University (where he won a Marshall Scholarship and a Dinkelspiel Award) with a bachelor's degree in symbolic systems and from Oxford University with a master's degree in philosophy.
Hoffman says he saw academia as an opportunity to make an "impact", but later realised that an entrepreneurial career would provide him with a bigger platform. "When I graduated from Stanford my plan was to become a professor and public intellectual. That is not about quoting Kant. It's about holding up a lens to society and asking 'who are we?' and 'who should we be, as individuals and a society?' But I realised academics write books that 50 or 60...
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