Born on the fifth of August 1967, Reid Garrett Hoffman is a lively Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, and Author. Reid is understood to be the maximum linked guy in Silicon Valley and additionally belongs to the “PayPal Mafia,” a collection of former PayPal personnel and founders who've seen that based and advanced extra generation groups and features grow to be millionaires or billionaires.
Other than what he presently does, Reid sits additionally serves on some now no longer-for-income forums which consist of – Kiva.org, Endeavor, Second Harvest Food Bank, Stanford University, University of Oxford, Amnesty International, Mozilla Corporation, The American Red Cross, DoSomething.org, Partners In Health, Start-up America Partnership, DonorsChoose.org, Exploratorium, etc.
Talking approximately his non-public existence – Reid became born in Palo Alto in California, to Deanna Ruth and William Parker Hoffman Jr., and grew up in Berkeley in California. After finishing his training at The Putnam School, Reid went directly to pursue his commencement from the Stanford University in 1990, in which he controlled now no longer best to win the Marshall Scholarship, however additionally the Dinkelspiel Award, in conjunction with a Bachelor’s of Science in Symbolic Systems and Cognitive Science Degree.
At first, he believed academia to be a possibility that could assist him to create that “impact”; the concept became to grow to be a professor and public intellectual, however with time, he found out that teachers write books that only a few humans study and an entrepreneurial profession could offer him with a bigger platform, in conjunction with the way and resources. For a long, Reid craved to begin an enterprise that could assist the expert global to the community with every different.
So after leaving PayPal, Reid in conjunction with former colleagues from Social Net, one former colleague from Fujitsu, and a university classmate; co-based LinkedIn in December 2002. The primary capability of LinkedIn permits customers to create profiles, add, construct and have interaction expert networks with every different, get entry to shared expertise and insights, locate enterprise opportunities, etc… Talent Solutions: this consists of LinkedIn Corporate Solutions which permits groups to locate, contact, and rent certified candidates In the following years, LinkedIn added pretty some trends like Jobs and Subscriptions for businesses, public profiles, Recommendations, People You May Know, etc.
Over the length of time, LinkedIn has long gone directly grown to be the primary and biggest expert networking platform that now bills for greater than four hundred million customers in greater than two hundred international locations. Overall as an Angel investor, Reid has invested in greater than 70 groups so away, which consist of Facebook, Friendster, www.zynga.com, Digg, scale, taxi pass, naseeb, technorati, real travel, targeted growth, Jaxtr, Change.org, etc….
Reid is widely recognized and popular via way of means of many enterprise insiders to arguably be the maximum success angel investor inside the beyond a decade and is the individual you have to speak to while you are beginning an agency. Over the length of time, Reid has posted plenty of posts as a “LinkedIn Influencer” on LinkedIn, one of all which consists of – an essay providing a brand-new shape of credentialing for college students and specialists entitled “Disrupting the Diploma”.
Reid has additionally authored books, that are extensively studied via way of means of marketers and aspires. This EEE has been co-authored via way of means of Reid and Ben Casnocha. As of September 2012, the EEE book had bought greater than 100,000 copies and had additionally grown to be a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. This EEE has been co-authored via way of means by Reid, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yes. It became launched in the United States on July 8, 2014.
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