Reid Hoffman

Co-Founder of LinkedIn; Co-Founder of Inflection AI; Co-Founder of Manas AI; Partner at Greylock

An accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor, Reid Hoffman has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses. In 2003, he co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service and in 2009 he joined Greylock as a partner. In 2022, Hoffman co-founded Inflection AI, an AI studio that created Pi. In 2025, he co-founded Manas AI, a company that leverages proprietary AI and best in class biology to cure cancer.

He currently serves on the boards of Aurora, Entrepreneur First, Microsoft, Nauto, and a few early stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Endeavor, CZ Biohub, Berggruen Institute, Opportunity@Work, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and the MacArthur Foundation’s Lever for Change. He is the host of two award-winning podcasts - Masters of Scale, where iconic business leaders share strategies that have helped them grow, as well as Possible, a podcast that sketches out the brightest version of the future—and what it will take to get there.

He is the co-author of six best-selling books: The Startup of You, The Alliance, Blitzscaling, Masters of Scale, and Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future. He is an Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, and a graduate of Stanford University.

By Reid Hoffman

Talking Politics: When, How and Why CEOs Should Speak Out

VC Investing During Covid

In Times of Pandemic, In Gates We Trust

My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Is Blitzscaling Over?

A Fun Moment in Podcasts

Bitcoin Rap Battle: Hamilton vs. Satoshi

Renovating Democracy with Nicolas Berggruen, Reid Hoffman and Nathan Gardels

Playing Trumped Up Cards: The World’s Biggest Deck*

Berggruen Institute