My Take
Reid Hoffman is one of those Silicon Valley figures who actually earned the "PayPal Mafia" reputation — he was at PayPal before co-founding LinkedIn, which sounds like a fun little side project until you realize it became the dominant professional network on the planet and sold to Microsoft for $26 billion in 2016. What I find genuinely interesting about Hoffman is that he's not just a money guy: he's a Stanford-trained philosopher who never stopped thinking seriously about networks, society, and what technology does to people. His podcast "Masters of Scale" is better than it has any right to be, and his books on blitzscaling gave a real name and framework to how startups actually grow fast. A CBE from the British government is an odd honor for a California tech billionaire, but honestly, LinkedIn reaching a billion users kind of justifies it.
Overview
Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American Internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and author. Hoffman is the co-founder and former executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Reid Hoffman
- Name (Japanese)
- リード・ギャレット・ホフマン
- Reading
- りーど・ぎゃれっと・ほふまん
- Born
- August 5, 1967 (age 58)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Goat
- Origin
- Stanford, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- entrepreneur / investor / writer / businessperson / podcaster
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Stanford University
Awards & achievements
- Marshall Scholarship
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.