Reid Hoffman

American co-founder of LinkedIn, venture capitalist, and author

Reid Hoffman made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Reid Hoffman as American co-founder of LinkedIn, venture capitalist, and author.

Reid Hoffman was born at Stanford in 1967. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Stanford University and Wolfson College.

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Modern careers are conducted in public and at speed, with reputations formed and revised far faster than the work itself changes.

He worked as entrepreneur, investor and writer.

His affiliations include PayPal, Chaosium and LinkedIn Corporation.

Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.

His work was formally recognised with the Marshall Scholarship and Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Reid Hoffman is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.

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