Reid Hoffman
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About
Co-founder of the social networking site LinkedIn. He later became a VC with Greylock Partners and invested in several successful tech companies including Airbnb. Forbes 2021 ranked him as the 1580th richest billionaire with a net worth of $2.4 billion.
Before Fame
He won a Marshall Scholarship and a Dinkelspiel Award from Stanford before earning a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from Oxford University.
Trivia
He was a noted philanthropist who served on the board for Do Something, an organization aimed at helping young people enact social change. He was one of the board members during the founding of PayPal.
Family Life
He married Michelle Yee. His grandfather was Indiana University president Theophilus Adam Wylie.
Associated With
He arranged the first meeting between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and an early Facebook investor who contributed $500,000.
