Reid Hoffman
LinkedIn Looks To Build On Its Impressive Resume : NPR
But that could change if LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and Executive Chairman Reid Hoffman realize their ambitions. As the 10-year-old company heads into its second decade, its two top executives want to establish its website as an integral part of the global economy. "It would be a ... Read more »
Fool's gold in VC-land The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blogTerm Sheet
Reid Hoffman of Greylock Partners comes in third, and it's hard to argue with his recent investment success (although most of it came as an angel investor before joining Greylock). But Forbes says his big deal was LinkedIn ( LNKD ), the company Hoffman co-founded 10 years ago. Do ... Read more »
The 10-Figure Touch: The Billionaires of the 2013 Midas List
Reid Hoffman, also made an investment in Facebook, but that decision is not the main reason why he’s claimed the title as the world’s wealthiest venture capitalist. As the founder and current chairman of LinkedIn LinkedIn, Hoffman is also the largest individual shareholder in a ... Read more »
Career Advice To My Daughter On Graduation Day
The founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, agrees with me. In a recent Business Insider article featuring his career advice for college grads, Hoffman advised, “Ask others ‘How can I help?’ Fulfill needs. Solve problems. And you change the world.” Be bold. Have the courage to ask ... Read more »
Al Gore and Bono invest in Biz Stone's mystery startup
The Twitter co-founder's new company, Jelly, closes its first round of funding with a celebrity-studded group of investors, including tech notables like Jack Dorsey, Reid Hoffman and Evan Williams. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has picked up some interesting celebrity investors for his ... Read more »
Mark Zuckerberg: activist backlash mounts against political advocacy group
It singled out LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, eBay's John Donahoe, Yahoo's Marissa Mayer and Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr for pressure from critics of Zuckerberg's initiative. The billionaire launched his boldest foray into politics in March, vowing to mobilise grassroots activists and tech ... Read more »
Why The Classic Career Question 'What Should I Do With My Life?' Is Totally Wrong
Thu, May 16, 2013, 2:26 PM EDT - U.S. Markets close in 1 hr 34 mins Whether you're a new college graduate or you've spent years in the work force, one question seems to linger: LinkedIn's founder, Reid Hoffman, says that's the wrong question to ask. Instead, professionals should be ... Read more »
2 Tech Stocks And 1 Healthcare Company With Recent Intensive Insider Selling
Reid Hoffman sold 166,668 shares on April 16 - May 7 pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Reid Hoffman currently holds 16,906,569 shares or 15.3% of the company. Reid Hoffman is Executive Chairman and a co-founder of LinkedIn. Leslie Kilgore sold 10,000 shares on May 7 ... Read more »
Reid Hoffman: Founding A Startup Is Like 'Throwing Yourself Off A Cliff'
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman says that starting a company is like "throwing yourself off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down. " So he just told Bloomberg Television's Emily Chang. This is a similar view to how his friend Elon Musk describes it. In 2010, Tesla and ... Read more »
Before LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman Founded An Overeager Dating Site
Thu, May 9, 2013, 7:55 PM EDT - U.S. Markets closed The idea for LinkedIn didn't just spring fully formed into Reid Hoffman's head. He had been experimenting with the idea of social networks for years. His first try was a dating service in 1997 called SocialNet. It was an ambitious idea. ... Read more »
Terra Mobile USA LinkedIn Tips: 10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Network
Ten years ago, entrepreneur Reid Hoffman had a vision for a website that could help create and foster important business connections among professionals. He co-founded a site called LinkedIn with the tag line "Relationships matter. " The social media giant, with 225 million members in ... Read more »
Tesla's Musk quits Zuckerberg's immigration reform group
The public interest group is funded by many tech heavy hitters like Microsoft's ( MSFT, Fortune 500 ) Bill Gates, LinkedIn' ( LNKD )s Reid Hoffman, Google' ( GOOG, Fortune 500 )s Eric Schmidt and Yahoo' ( YHOO, Fortune 500 )s Marissa Mayer. In order to gain momentum in its fight to ... Read more »
EXCLUSIVE Elon Musk quits Zuckerberg's immigration advocacy group
FWD.us boasts an impressive list of backers, including Microsoft (MSFT.O) founder Bill Gates and LinkedIn LNKD.O founder Reid Hoffman, though it operates as a special type of non-profit group that does not have to disclose its donors. Run by Zuckerberg's old Harvard roommate, Joe Green... Read more »
U.S. technology, labor unions clash on immigration
The expansion of H-1B visas is considered the first major victory for Zuckerberg's new nonprofit lobbying organization, FWD.us, which receives financial backing from such big tech names as Bill Gates of Microsoft, Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Napster pioneer Sean Parker. In announcing ... Read more »
12 great college graduation gift ideas
In this book, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman explains how a worker of any age can accelerate his or her career by treating it like a startup. It seems especially appropriate with so many recent college grad still struggling to find work. 2. Decorate the new apartment. If a grad is lucky ... Read more »
Indians lobby hard for a slice of immigration pie
With an advertising blitz bankrolled by senior executives from Silicon Valley, like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, "they have managed to secure much of what they want in the landmark immigration bill now pending in Congress," the influential US daily said. ... Read more »
Silicon valley group’s political effort causes uproar
Reid Hoffman has described himself as "progressive" in an essay posted recently on LinkedIn, a company that he founded... Read more »
CallFire CEO Dinesh Ravishanker Named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2013 Finalist in Gr...
... as Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, Michael Dell of Dell Inc., Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines, Fred Smith of FedEx, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Richard Schulze of Best Buy, Andrew Mason of Groupon, Mindy Grossman of HSN, Inc., Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn, and many more... Read more »
Silicon Valley's unlikely new favorite cause: Gov. Christie
Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, gave Christie the state maximum $3,800 donation despite donating $1 million to a pro-Obama political action committee. Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga - which makes mobile games like "Words With Friends" - donated $2,000 last year to the liberal whom ... Read more »
You Jelly? Jack Dorsey, Al Gore, Bono Invest in Biz Stone’s Stealth Startup
Also participating are several individual investors who, we can only assume, were rounded up in the parking lot of last year’s TED conference: Jack Dorsey, Bono, Al Gore, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Where Good Ideas Come From author Steven Johnson, Evan Williams and Jason ... Read more »
