Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn can enjoy today with the shares worth 1.8 billion dollars. Website which he is creator of, had a debut today at stock market and it was a very successful debut. The company’s shares earned 108% in first day. Who is Reid Hoffman?
Born in Stanford (California), grew up in Berkeley. He studied at Stanford University and Oxford University. Even considered a career in research, but he concluded that he can achieve more in business.
“When I finished studying at Stanford I had a plan to become a professor. It was not about quoting Kant. The idea was to target the community and the question of “who we are” and “what we should be, as individualists, and society.” But I realised that scientists write books, which reads about 50 – 60 people, and I wanted to have a greater impact “(source: Cree, Richard (July 2009).” Well connected “. Director magazine.).
So Hoffman entered the business world, he worked at Apple, Fujitsu, and then started dating website SocialNet.com. He was also vice president of PayPal, including the time the service was taken over by eBay.
He founded Linkedin in 2003 and became the first CEO.
According to the book The Facebook Effect, by David Kirkpatrick, Hoffman arranged the first meeting of Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel. As a result, Thiel invested $500,000 in Facebook. Hoffman also made an investment.
Reid Hoffman is one of the most well-known investors in Silicon Valley. He invested in Zynga and the company is currently valued at $ 5 billion. Other Hoffman’s investments include Flickr, Digg, Ping.fm, Last.fm. For nearly six years he is in the Board of Mozilla Corporation.
Reid Hoffman realized his plan no doubt. He has a big impact on the world.
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