In January 2000, he left SocialNet and joined PayPal full-time as the company's COO. While at SocialNet, Hoffman was a member of the board of directors during the founding of PayPal, an electronic money transmission service. It was a social network seven or eight years before that became a trend". It focused "on online dating and matching up people with similar interests, like golfers who were looking for partners in their neighborhood." Peter Thiel has said was "literally an idea before its time. He later worked at Fujitsu before co-founding his first company – in 1997. He later joined Apple Computer in 1994, where he worked on eWorld, an early attempt at building an online service. His first job was an internship at Inglenook, a winery in Napa Valley. Hoffman's uncle Eric Hoffman is a writer. His paternal great-great-great-grandfather was Theophilus Adam Wylie, a Christian Presbyterian minister and Indiana University president pro tempore. Initially, he said, "my plan was to become a professor and public intellectual." Later, he decided that a career in business would provide him with a larger platform because "I realized academics write books that 50 or 60 people read and I wanted more impact." Hoffman said that in college he decided to try to influence the state of the world on a large scale.
He was awarded a Marshall Scholarship for graduate study abroad, on which he earned an Master of Studies in Philosophy from Wolfson College, Oxford in 1993. He graduated from Stanford University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems and Cognitive Science. Hoffman attended high school at the progressive The Putney School in Vermont, where he engaged in farming activities.
and worked as an editor at the game company Chaosium, then based in Oakland near his home. Hoffman was an avid tabletop roleplaying gamer as a child. 1580 with a net worth of US $1.97 billion. On the Forbes 2021 list of the world's billionaires, Hoffman was ranked No. He is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners and a co-founder of Inflection AI. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and author.
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