In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Endeavor, CZ Biohub, New America, Berggruen Institute, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and the MacArthur Foundation’s Lever for Change. He currently serves on the boards of Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Joby, Microsoft, Nauto, Neeva, and a few early stage companies still in stealth. He focuses on building products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects. Prior to LinkedIn, Hoffman served as executive vice president at PayPal, where he was also a founding board member. In 2016 LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft, and he became a board member of Microsoft. He led LinkedIn through its first four years and to profitability as Chief Executive Officer. LinkedIn is thriving with more than 700 million members around the world and a diversified revenue model that includes subscriptions, advertising, and software licensing. Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service, in 2003. Ranging from LinkedIn to PayPal, from Airbnb to Convoy to Facebook, he invests in businesses with network effects and collaborates on building their product ecosystems. He possesses a unique understanding of consumer behavior and the dynamics of viral businesses, as well as deep experience in driving companies from the earliest stages through periods of explosive, “blitzscale” growth. An accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses, including LinkedIn and PayPal.
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