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Reid Hoffman’s most well-known investment was in Facebook, which is now the world’s largest social media company. Between September 2000 and November 2009, he made investments (seed, series A) in over 70 companies, including Facebook, Zynga, Digg, Last.fm, Flickr, Fandom, Ironport, Shopkick.

Hoffman has also been an active angel investor.

After the acquisition, on March 14, 2017, Hoffman joins Microsoft as a board member.

In December 2016, Hoffman sold LinkedIn to Microsoft for $26.2 billion in cash.

Today, LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with 774+ million members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.

In 2002, Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, along with the team members Allen Blue, Eric Ly, Jean-Luc Vaillant, Lee Hower, Konstantin Guericke, Ian McNish, Yan Pujante, and Chris Saccheri.

He was responsible for all external relationships for PayPal, including payments infrastructure (VISA, MasterCard, ACH, WellsFargo), business development (eBay, Intuit, others), government (Regulatory, Judicial), and legal. Later in January 2000, he left SocialNet to join Paypal as Executive Vice-President.

While working on SocialNet, he joined PayPal as a member of the board of directors. In 1997, Reid Hoffman co-founded his first company, a dating website. In 1994, Reid Hoffman took his first job at Apple Computer where he worked on eWorld – a subscription-based online service.Indeed, his writing helped him in evaluating where he stood in terms of achieving his goals.

He majored in philosophy at Oxford in order to improve his writing and strengthen the intellectual public culture.

As a teenager in college, Hoffman dreamed of doing something bigger that would have a global impact.

Reid Hoffman completed his graduation from Stanford University in 1990 and post-graduation in Philosophy from Wolfson College, Oxford in 1993.