Reid Hoffman

Current

Chairman and President, Products at LinkedIn
Member, Provost Council at College Eight, UCSC
Member, Board of Directors at Kiva.org

Member, Board of Directors at Tagged
Member, Board of Directors at Mozilla Corporation
Member, Board of Directors at Vendio
Member, Board of Directors at Grassroots
Member, Board of Directors at Six Apart
Member, Board of Advisors at Lulan LLC
Angel Investor at Aufklarung LLC

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Education

Oxford University
Stanford University
The Putney School

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Recommended

49 people have recommended Reid

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Reid Hoffman’s Summary

All aspects of consumer internet and software. Focus is on finance, business strategy, and development, but includes product management, operations, business operations, business development, and marketing. Focus is on seed-stage technology companies, but have also helped profitable companies grow.

Reid Hoffman’s Specialties:

General management, product development, business models, strategy, negotiation, financing, deal structure, international, marketing, brand development, brand management, business development, public relations, press strategy, payments infrastructure, financial services, mergers and acquisitions, start-ups, software development, operations centers.

Reid Hoffman’s Experience

Chairman and President, Products

LinkedIn

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

February 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

LinkedIn powers your professional life by enabling you to:

-Control your professional profile online (on LinkedIn and in search engines like Google)

-Tap into your trusted network for opportunities, referrals, and answers to critical business questions

-Search for the right professionals (experts, hires, references, consultants, service providers)

LinkedIn’s primary customer will always be each individual professional. LinkedIn also provides services for companies, professional associations, alumni associations, non-profits, and conferences.

My role is product and business strategy, evangelizing the utility to every professional.
Member, Provost Council

College Eight, UCSC

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

July 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)

College Eight is a residential educational college part of UCSC. The focus is environmental citizenship, ranging from topics of enviromental civics and justice to environmental enterpreneurship. The new educational goal is to achieve academic excellence through current research and teaching, and also through connections with business and government.
Member, Board of Directors

Kiva.org

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

June 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Kiva provides an entrepreneur's marketplace for social micro-lending. The entrepreneurs are pre-vetted by micro-finance organizations. They are then listed on Kiva's web marketplace, and interested and motivated lenders can lend money for the creation of businesses. It is the paradigm case of teaching to fish rather than giving fish.
Member, Board of Directors

Tagged

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

December 2005 — Present (2 years 11 months)

The teen social network for teens. It's a place on the web only for teens - hip, interesting, and cool. Within a short time, it has millions of teens; and the most interesting parts are still to arrive.
Member, Board of Directors

Mozilla Corporation

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

August 2005 — Present (3 years 3 months)

Evangelists and champions of the free and open web-platform, Firefox. Firefox allows consumers the experience they want, all software and internet companies to build extensions, and open-source developers to contribute freely and democratically. Firefox works to keep a free, open web -- both through its own platform and by inspiring other browsers to create open apis and platforms with great consumer experiences.
Member, Board of Directors

Vendio

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

June 2003 — Present (5 years 5 months)

Vendio provides best of breed, easy-to-use services for small businesses on eBay and on the Internet. Vendio also provides a great price-checking and comparing toolbar so that you never overpay on the internet again: www.dealio.com.
Member, Board of Directors

Grassroots

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2003 — Present (5 years 5 months)

Best IT infrastructure and enablement for grassroots campaigns for corporations. Grassroots campaigns are extremely important for the modern corporation, as regulation, political competition, and risk mitigation are essential. The best way to solve these problems: utilize your corporation's constintuency as a political force. And corporations do have constituencies -- employees, shareholders, customers, partners, vendors, and others.
Member, Board of Directors

Six Apart

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

April 2003 — Present (5 years 7 months)

SixApart produces the best publishing platforms on the web for self-expression through words, pictures, and other media. For self-hosting and business, it produces the leading blogging software MoveableType. For hosted web publishing with great looks and effective tools, SixApart has the best blogging service TypePad. And for younger web communities, it has LiveJournal. Recently, SixApart has launched Vox which allows great sharing within your own private community -- your family, your friends, and your neighborhood as you want it.
Member, Board of Advisors

Lulan LLC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Textiles industry)

January 2003 — Present (5 years 10 months)

Lulan imports top-quality textiles from socially great women's collectives in Asia to the U.S. market, transformed into the best products.
Angel Investor

Aufklarung LLC

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

September 2000 — Present (8 years 2 months)

Helped finance over 60 companies, 25+ from initial conception. Angel investor in www.facebook.com, www.digg.com, www.bioscale.com, www.nanosolar.com, www.lulan.com, www.taxipass.com, www.naseeb.com, www.technorati.com, www.grassroots.com, www.friendster.com, www.socialtext.com, www.realtravel.com, www.rhythmnetworks.com, www.ravenflow.com, www.targetedgrowth.com, www.wink.com, www.wikia.com, www.adventsolar.com, www.bioscale.com, www.ning.com, www.tagged.com, www.tinypictures.us, www.etology.com, www.winster.com, www.rupture.com, www.jaxtr.com, www.kongregate.com, www.powerset.com, www.care.com, www.funnyordie.com, www.ironport.com, www.flixster.com, www.care.com, www.flickr.com, www.last.fm, www.grockit.com and www.sixapart.com.

Reid Hoffman’s Education

Oxford University

M.St., Philosophy, September 1990 — June 1993

Activities and Societies:

Wolfson College, Matthew Arnold Prize
Stanford University

B.S., Symbolic Systems, September 1985 — June 1990

Activities and Societies:

Marshall Scholar, Dinkelspiel Award, Golden Grant, Honors, Founder of the Symbolic Systems Forum
The Putney School

Diploma, Highschool, 1982 — 1985

Activities and Societies:

X-country skiing, soccer, rebuilding Nova Scotia house